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Title: Spurr-Kirkpatrick post per dcar46 Page: Daniel was a lawyer and judge in Bellevue, and later in northern California. Author: dcar46 Publication: http://boards.ancestry.com.au/surnames.kirkpatrick/1643/mb.ashx Text: Board: Message Boards > Surnames > Kirkpatrick URL: http://boards.ancestry.com.au/surnames.kirkpatrick/1643/mb.ashx Subject: Sarah Ann KIRKPATRICK, b 1826, Illinois; d 1865, Healdsburg, Sonoma, California Author: dcar46 Date: Wednesday, 8 July 2009 Classification: Query Surnames: KIRKPATRICK, LANE, HUFNER, SPURR �Ctab�D I understand that James Lane KIRKPATRICK was born 22 Mar 1802 in Jefferson county, Georgia. His parents were John KIRKPATRICK and Sarah Winifred LANE, both from South Carolina. James married Phereby (or Thereby or Phoebe) HUFNER, 29 Mar 1821, in Bond county, Illinois. They moved to Bellevue, Jackson, Iowa, where James died in 1856. I have seen lists of their nine children, where the fourth child is not named, just called "daughter KIRKPATRICK", born in Illinois in 1826. This is my problem: I believe that my 2nd great grandmother, Sarah Ann KIRKPATRICK, is this daughter. She and her husband, Daniel Francis SPURR, lived in Bellevue, Iowa, until about 1860, when the KIRKPATRICKS also seemed to leave the area. Daniel was a lawyer and judge in Bellevue, and later in northern California. They lived in close proximity to the KIRKPATRICKS in 1850 and 1860. Can anyone help me to link Sarah Ann KIRKPATRICK to James Lane KIRKPATRICK?�Ctab�D Link: http://boards.ancestry.com.au/surnames.kirkpatrick/1643/mb.ashx |
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Title: Carver, Jones, Spurr, Cummings online genealogy Page: Daniel Francis Spurr Author: dcar46 Publication: http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/1064886/person/-1992096268?ssrc= |
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Title: The Bar of Jackson Co., Iowa by Hon. William Graham Page: Dan F. Spurr Author: Hon. William Graham Publication: THE BAR OF JACKSON COUNTY BY HON. WILLIAM GRAHAM Pg 86-94 Text: x THE BAR OF JACKSON COUNTY. BY HON. WILLIAM GRAHAM. The earliest resident lawyer of Jackson county is believed to have been Philip B. Bradley, who was born in Ridgefield, Connecticut, January 5, 1809. He graduated at Union College, Schenectady, New York, in the class of 1829, of which class the late Senator L.B. Dunham, of Maquoketa, was also a member. In 1834 he located in Galena, Illinois, and was appointed prosecuting attorney, in 1836, and a year later postmaster of Galena. In 1839 he removed to Iowa, making his home in Jackson county, and soon entered the practice of his profession. He early entered political life and in 1843 he became clerk of the District Court. In 1845 he was elected a member of the legislative council, and in 1845 became the first member for Jackson and Jones counties in the senate of the newly admitted State of Iowa. In 1850 and again in 1852 he was secretary of the senate, and was also elected one of the representatives of Jackson county in 1858 and again in 1877. He was also elected county judge in 1861 and served one term. In 1852 he was a delegate from Iowa to the democratic national convention at Baltimore, and voted for General Cass until his nomination was hopeless, when he transferred his vote to Stephen A. Douglas until on the final ballot he cast it for Franklin Pierce. He was a member of the committee on resolutions in this convention. Judge Bradley was a genial gentleman of polished manners, and was adroit and skillful politician. He was largely instrumental in securing the nomination of his neighbor, Ansel Briggs, for governor, and is credited with the management of the campaign which resulted in his election. He was one of the chiefs of the "Andrew Clique" which had such a potent influence in the early politics of Iowa. During the first session of the legislature while Bradley was senator, the democrats had six majority in the senate and the whigs six majority in the house of representatives, so that neither party could command a majority on joint ballot, and the situation was still further complicated by the fact that three democrats and one whig refused to support their caucus nominees for senators or judges of the Supreme Court. During the joint convention after the whigs had failed to elect their men, a proposition was made to Bradley that if he would furnish half a dozen votes to elect M.D. Browning, a whig, from Burlington, senator, they would in turn elect Bradley to the United States senate. The offer was declined, but Phil persuaded enough whigs to vote with the democrats to adjourn the convention, and the senate would not afterward agree to hold a joint convention, and the election of senators went over to the next legislature, although Governor Briggs called a special session in expectation that the democratic nominees could be elected. If Bradley had accepted the offer the early political history of Iowa might have been written differently. Jacob Y. Blackwell also came to Andrew about 1846. He is well remembered for his fondness for "Sesquipedalian" words and for his curious facility in misplacing them. He was in California for a time, and afterward in Minnesota, but returned to Jackson county and remained there until the latter part of the sixties, when he removed to Iowa City, of which place he was at one time city attorney, and also represented Johnson county in the legislature. He died a good while ago in New Jersey. One of the early lawyers was Chenowyth, who is chiefly remembered by the suit which he brought to replevy forty acres; of land and a sawmill. He was among the early emigrants to the Pacific Coast, meeting with untold hardships on the way, and losing his little daughter among the Indians. He afterward became a successful lawyer in Oregon. J. McGarl and Frank F. Taylor practiced law for a little while in Bellevue, but McGarl died while on a business trip to New Orleans, and in 1853 Taylor removed to California where he acquired a comfortable estate. Dan F. Spurr, Joseph Kelso and Fred Bangs all located in Jackson about 1847. Spurr was a member of an influential family in the bluegrass region of Kentucky. A college graduate and a well read lawyer, he was also a man of genial manners, and soon attained great popularity. He was elected county judge in 1851. In those days the county judge was not only judge of the Probate Court, but possessed the powers of issuing or dissolving injunctions, and hearing writs of habeas corpus. He also exercised all the powers since vested in the board of supervisors, and the auditor, and many of those now exercised by the clerk of the District Court. In fact very few officers anywhere in the United States possessed powers so extensive as those exercised by the county judges of Iowa under the Code of 1851. Judge Spurr's administration of county affairs was a lamentable failure. His popularity was such that he held the position for six years, and in 1855 was prominently urged for judge of the Supreme Court against Judge Isbell. His convivial habits grew upon him, and worked his ruin, and in 1857, he and his party associates were retired from office. Soon afterward he removed to California, but never again regained his standing at the bar, and died a few years ago in very reduced circumstances. Kelso was born near Belfast, Ireland, where his father was a Presbyterian minister. In 1840 he came to the United States and at first settled in the Valley of Virginia, but remained there but a short time and went to Lancaster, Ohio, and began the study of law in the office of Hon. Thomas Corwin, afterwards governor of Ohio, senator and secretary of the treasury. About 1845 he came to Galena and entered the office of John M. Douglas, afterward president of the Illinois Central Railroad. He started as a lawyer in Bellevue under very adverse circumstances, but his industry and integrity won for him business and wealth. He was prosecuting attorney in 1851 to 1853, and it is said that he never indicted a man whom he failed to convict. He was also county judge from 1857 to 1859, to the great benefit of the taxpayers. He afterward engaged in banking, and died a few years ago at an advanced age leaving a large estate, and an untarnished reputation. Fred Bangs first settled at Andrew and soon afterward became private secretary to Governor Briggs. His early days had been spent in a printing office, and he became an accurate and careful writer. He was prosecuting attorney from 1855 for two or three years, and afterward removed to Tama county and from there to Harrison county, where he died a few years ago. He had a large fund of stories about the legislators and state officers of early days, and it is a great pity he did not print them. J.W. Jenkins settled in Maquoketa about 1850. He was a candidate for senator of state in 1852, and was elected senator in 1856, and was afterward lieutenant colonel and colonel of the Thirty-first Iowa Infantry. At the close of the war, he removed to Kansas City, and died there a few years ago. William A. Maginnis came to Bellevue in 1851. He was prosecuting attorney from 1853 to 1855, and in 1875 was elected state senator. His genial nature and infectious laugh were almost irresistible. His good nature led him into financial difficulties, and the foundation of a comfortable fortune was exhausted in paying other people's debts. He was a democrat in the early years, but in his latter days became a prohibitionist of the most pronounced type. William P. Montgomery located in Maquoketa early in "the fifties," but before the close of the decade he went to Kansas, and was living at Topeka at the time that town was sacked, and its inhabitants murdered by Quantrell's band of guerrillas. Montgomery escaped by hiding in a cornfield until the cutthroats had left the neighborhood. Hon. Judge Booth settled in Bellevue in 1851 and soon took the first place among the members of the Jackson county bar. He was a native of Orange county, New York, where he was born June 1, 1792. He was admitted to practice as an attorney when he arrived at his majority and settled at Goshen and three years later received his certificate of admission as counselor at law. When he was admitted to the bar Ambrose Spencer was chief justice of New York, and his license to practice as a solicitor in chancery was signed by the great Chancellor Kent. In 1827 he was appointed one of the judges of the Common Pleas Court, and in 1830 became surrogate of his native county, which position he held for about eleven years. He was a man of ability, thoroughly grounded in the fundamentals of the law, a hard fighter and a tireless worker. Soon after he had been licensed to practice as an attorney, he was selected by the celebrated Aaron Burr, who had a large practice in that region, as his correspondent, and in that capacity attended to the local details of his business in that vicinity until. he went on the bench. He early entered political life and was one of the famed Albany Regency, which controlled the fortunes of the democratic party in that state for so many years. This connection brought him into terms of intimacy with the leading democratic politicians of New York, as President Van Buren, Governor Marcy, General Dix, Flagg, Van Dyck, Judge Duer, Judge Brown, and Silas Wright, whose friendship he retained through life and which cost him many hard fought battles. Judge Booth was interested in the Erie Railroad from the time of its inception; was one of its incorporators, and also for many years one of its most active directors. At one time when it seemed that the enterprise must be abandoned, he with six other of the directors each built a mile of the road at their own expense, and thus secured its extension to Middletown and saved the life of the corporation. Judge Booth came to Iowa in 1851 and settled in Bellevue and easily took his place in the front rank of the bar of Jackson county. In 1854 he was appointed judge of the District Court to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Judge W E. Leffingwell, but after one year's service resigned and returned to the practice of his profession, which he continued up to the time of his death, which occurred February 18, 1869. The day before his death he concluded the distribution of a large estate, and the distribution sheet prepared by him was clear and accurate, and written as legibly and firmly as any he had prepared forty years before. The Iowa bar has had few equals and no superior in either equity or probate law. He was quaint and peculiar in his manners, and every member of the bar had some good story to tell at his expense, but he was not often worsted by any of them in a lawsuit. His success was largely attributable to the fact that no fee was large enough to induce him to accept the prosecution or defense of a case that he believed after examination, he either could not, or ought not to win. The maxim most frequently on his lips was that "it is the lawyer's first duty to keep his client out of lawsuits." His aid and counsel were always at the disposal of the younger members of the bar, and with all his peculiarities few persons ever had a kinder heart. Judge Booth was nearly all his life a member of the Presbyterian church and was frequently commissioned to sit in its judicatories, and was for a while a director of the seminary of that church at Chicago. The church of that denomination at Bellevue owes its existence to him, and much of the larger part of the cost of their edifice was defrayed by him. When his death was announced to the Supreme Court, Judge Dillon, then chief justice of that tribunal, paid a touching tribute to his memory. In 1854 Joseph S. Darling was admitted to the bar and settled at Sabula. Afterward he located in Bellevue, and with the removal of the county seat to Andrew, he also moved to the "Geographical Center," and while living there served one term as county judge. He subsequently went to Clinton and after twenty years' residence there, took up his residence at Arkansas. He is still in active practice. He was one of the best equipped lawyers in the state, and able to compete with any of his competitors, and recent trials have demonstrated that his hand has not lost its cunning, and that "Time's effacing fingers" has not yet touched his intellect, nor swept from his mind its stores of legal learning. A.S. Rosecrans some time during "the fifties" located at Fulton and practiced law there for some years. In May, 1856, Dean A. Fletcher was enrolled among the lawyers of Jackson county and his name has never been erased. He was a native of Essex county, New York, and graduated from Vermont University at Burlington, and also from the Poughkeepsie Law School. He located at Maquoketa, where he still lives, and is the lawyer longest of any in practice at this bar, but his service has not been continuous as he devoted several years to teaching and was also for several terms superintendent of schools in this county. Rufus S. Hadley also practiced law in Maquoketa for a few years, but in 1858 removed to Anamosa. William Graham settled in Bellevue in August, 1856, and was admitted to the bar of Jackson county, September 8th following, and at once entered into partnership with Hon. John B. Booth, which continued until dissolved by the death of the senior member in February, 1869. He was a native of Montgomery, Orange county, New York, and graduated at Union College in 1851. After one year spent in teaching, he studied law and was admitted to the bar at Brooklyn, his certificate of admission bearing date January 8, 1856. The firm of Booth and Graham did a large business in Jackson and adjoining counties, but in 1867 the junior partner removed to Dubuque, where he is still actively engaged in the practice of the law and visits Jackson county every term of court or oftener. Since coming to this state in 1856, he has never engaged in any business or accepted any position that would interfere in the least with his profession. Eugene Cowles, of Maquoketa, was admitted to the bar on the same day with Graham, and immediately became associated with Judge Spurr as partner at Bellevue. The firm was dissolved shortly before Spurr's removal to California, and Cowles located for a short time in Maquoketa, but soon removed to Dubuque, and while located there was persuaded by some Boston clients to undertake the management of their mills at Canton. After two or three years he sold the mills for his clients, and then engaged with his brother in the commission business in Dubuque, and after a successful career there they removed to Chicago, where they suffered the loss of everything in the Chicago fire. Cowles returned to Iowa and finally located at Cherokee and again entered the practice of the law, and while in the enjoyment of a successful and lucrative business his career was cut short by a sudden and fatal illness. In the early part of 1857 Charles Rich, a native of Vermont, where he graduated at the University of Vermont at Burlington, came from Gouverneur, St. Lawrence county, New York, where he had practiced for some years, to Maquoketa, and became a partner of D.A. Fletcher, and the firm of Rich and Fletcher continued until Mr. Fletcher was elected superintendent of schools, and from that time Mr. Rich was alone. He was an able lawyer, but on account of some errors made soon after coming to this state, neither his abilities nor his merits received full recognition for some years. He was an indefatigable worker, and gave himself no relaxation, and his increasing labors sapped his vitality, and in the spring of 1874 while in the full tide of success he succumbed to an attack of pneumonia. Charles M. Dunbar was admitted to the bar in 1857 and kept his office in Maquoketa until his increasing deafness obliged him to retire from practice some years before his sudden death in 1903. He was the democratic candidate for attorney general in 1864, and was for several years a valuable member of the board of directors of the Iowa Agricultural College at Ames. Noble L. Earner, and A.C. Laing both settled in Sabula in the later "fifties," but remained only a short time and then removed to other localities. John Hilsinger opened his law office in Sabula in 1858, coming there from Cortland county, New York, where he was admitted to the bar in 1857, and where he remained until his death. In 1860 he was elected one of the first board of supervisors and continued to serve in that capacity as long as he would accept the office. In 1863 he was elected senator and served four years. He also served one term as prosecuting attorney, and was for many years treasurer of the Ancient Order of United Workmen. Mr. Hilsinger was an accurate and successful business man as well as a careful and prudent lawyer, and a handsome competency rewarded his labors. He engaged in banking and gradually withdrew from the contests in the forum, which were always distasteful to him. Early in 1859, B.F. Thomas opened a law office at Andrew, and a few years afterward escaped being elected county judge by the narrow margin of five votes. During the Civil war he engaged in collecting war claims, and procuring pensions, and by his energy and perseverance built up a larger business than any other pension lawyer in Iowa, having procured pensions for residents of every state and territory in the Union. With the removal of the county seat to Maquoketa, he followed the records, and is still in the full tide of successful practice in partnership with his son, Charles M. Thomas. Henry F. Severens came to Bellevue in 1857 as a teacher, but soon resigned, and entered the office of Booth and Graham as a student. He afterwards went back to Vermont, and was admitted to practice there, but within a few years returned as far west as Michigan where he has had a distinguished and prosperous career. He was for seventeen years a partner of Senator Burrows at Kalamazoo, and while they were partners they were candidates for Congress, Burrows on the republican and Severens on the democratic ticket, but politics did not interfere with their friendship. President Cleveland appointed Mr. Severens district judge of the United States Court, and President McKinley promoted him to the position of circuit judge of the Court of Appeals, a higher position than has been reached by any other student, or member of the bar of Jackson county. From 1858 to 1861 there were five young fellows studying law in the various law offices in Bellevue, all of whom were afterwards admitted to the bar: Don A. Wynkoop, David Kelso, Thomas W. Darling, W. Dailey Wilson and Frank A. Bettis. Of these Wynkoop in 1861 was admitted first, and passed all the rest of his life in the practice of law in Jackson county, for many years at Bellevue, and afterward at Maquoketa, and it is believed that he tried a greater number of law suits than any other resident member of the bar. He was a man of ready speech and genial wit, and was well versed in criminal law and the law of torts, and tried all his cases with great vigor, and did not hesitate to attack anybody or anything which stood between him and success. He died very suddenly. David Kelso was a half brother of Judge Kelso, and almost as soon as he was admitted to the bar he went with Capt. W.A. Warren, who had been appointed quartermaster in the army, as clerk, and as such rendered valuable service to his county. After the war he settled in Kansas, and in a few years became the personal counsel of Jay Gould in his matters in Kansas and Colorado, which position he retained during the life of that financier. He acquired a large estate and is still living at Kansas City. W. Dailey Wilson returned to his former home in Indiana, and was a successful lawyer, but retired to engage in agricultural pursuits. His modesty led him to decline a nomination for Congress when his election was assured. Bettis also went with Capt. Warren as clerk. He, after the war, opened an office in Bellevue for a brief time but removed to Kansas, where he was partner with Kelso for a while, and is now understood to be living in Spokane. T.W. Darling (Tom, as everybody calls him) is still a resident of Jackson county, having his office at Preston. If he had stuck to the law, he could have attained distinction, but other things had a greater attraction for him, and in consequence his abilities have not received the recognition they would otherwise have attracted. He is the only one of the quintette living in Jackson county. In 1861 when the county seat was removed from Bellevue to Andrew, two young men came from Columbiana county, Ohio, and opened a law office in Andrew under the firm name of Brown and Hill, and also commenced making an abstract of the conveyances of record. The outbreak of the war so broke up business that Hill soon returned to Ohio, and Brown became for a time partner with J.S. Darling, but in a few months went to the war also, and neither returned to Jackson county afterward. In the same year James C.H. Hobbs, who had been a doctor in Galena, but had abandoned it for the law, opened an office in Andrew also, but he too got the war fever and enlisted. He became a regimental surgeon and afterward brigade surgeon, and at the close of the war returned to Andrew and reopened his law office, but in a few months became a backslider, and entered the ministry of the Methodist church, and spent the remainder of his life in Illinois preaching the gospel. Samuel S. Simpson was born in Virginia but was brought to Iowa, when an infant. He was educated at the Rock River Seminary at Mt. Morris, Illinois, and after studying law in the office of Booth and Graham, was admitted to practice in 1862. He was partner with D.A. Wynkoop for a year or two but from that time was alone save for a brief partnership with I.P.H. Cowden. He was for a while editor and proprietor of a democratic paper at Bellevue, and was twice elected representative in the general assembly. His family having inherited a large tract of land in Kansas, he removed to that state in order to protect their interests and died there. William L. Redmond, who had been superintendent of schools in 1860 and 1861, was admitted about the same time. He became owner of the abstract which Brown and Hill had started, and completed it under circumstances that would have deterred almost any other man. He suffered untold torture from an affection of the eyes, and his struggles with poverty for years were pathetic. In 1864 he was elected recorder and introduced a number of reforms in the conduct of that office, the effect of which is seen until the present day. He became well versed in the law of real estate and engaged in banking, first with Judge Keiso, and afterward with B.W. Seaward. His industry and application to business was intense, and with the drugs which he took to alleviate the pain in his eyes, his mind became affected, and while suffering from a hallucination was drowned in the Mississippi River. I.P.H. Cowden was also a law student when the war broke out. Disappointed in not being able to enlist in the First Iowa Infantry, he went to Galena and enlisted in an Illinois regiment, and was severely injured in a railroad accident on his way to the front. He recovered and served through the war and after his return was admitted to practice and formed a partnership with S.S. Simpson, but his service in the army implanted in him the seeds of consumption and he died on the threshhold of his career. The same fate befell William Galloway, a native of Jackson township, who was among the first to enlist, and after the restoration of peace was admitted to the bar at Andrew, but soon after removed to Waterloo, where he too died of consumption resulting from his army life. These two young men laid down their lives for their country as truly as if they had perished on the field of battle. Levi Keck was admitted early. He had been engaged in business in Andrew from the time he came to the state in 185-- and in 1864 and 5 was deputy treasurer. He became associated with Redmond in the abstract business, and is still engaged in it, first as Redmond & Keck, then Keck & House, and now as Levi Keck & Sons. It is doubtful whether any man in the county ever put in more hours of hard work, and the wonder is how he ever found time to become the well read and accurate lawyer that he is. He served one term as prosecuting attorney, but has withstood all temptations to enter political life. His name has long been a synonym for integrity and uprightness of character, and it is a pleasure to know that his work has brought him a rich return of this world's goods, and that his conduct has won for him the esteem (not to say affection) of the whole county. In the summer of 1861 John W. Watson came to Bellevue from Catskill, New York, where his father had been one of the judges of the Supreme Court. He had studied law in Connecticut with Governor Seymour of that state, and expected, as soon as he was admitted here, to enter into partnership with his brother-in-law, William Graham. He had been here but a short time when the war fever carried him off, and he enlisted with the Curtis Horse, which afterward became the Fifth Iowa Cavalry. He was lieutenant in Company H of that regiment, and was for a year and a half brigade inspector on the staff of General Lowe, who was the first colonel of the regiment. His company was in McCook's raid around Atlanta, where it was broken up and its commanding officer taken captive. Its first captain had been promoted major. Lieutenant Watson resigned his position on the staff of General Lowe, and took command of his company, and reorganized it and was ready for active service under Thomas when Hood attempted to capture Nashville. On the morning of December 15, 1864, while in the act of giving orders for a charge he was instantly killed by a shell. He had never missed a day's service from the time of his enlistment, except a brief furlough when he went to Gettysburg to visit his only brother, Major M.F. Watson, who graduated at West Point the first year of the war, and lost his right leg in checking Barksdale's advance on Little Round Top. "Jack," as he was familiarly known, was the life of his company, and a universal favorite. In 1864 George W. Wood became a member of the firm of Booth and Graham, at Bellevue, but after about a year returned to New York and engaged in manufacturing and never afterward resumed the practice of law. Alvah Wilson settled in Maquoketa and entered upon the practice of the law, but soon afterward returned to New York. In March, 1866, Colonel Charles A. Clark was admitted to the bar on examination. He had been a volunteer in a Maine Regiment and had risen to be colonel, and after the war studied law. He did not remain in Jackson county, but located first at Webster City, and from there removed to Cedar Rapids, where he is in full tide of practice, and is accounted one of the leading lawyers of the state. Three other young men were admitted at Andrew while it was the county seat. Of these, T.E. Ellwood still remains in the county and has his office at Maquoketa. D.C. McKillip, in a few years, removed to Nebraska where he has had a successful'career, and was at one time a member of the legislature of that state. M. Turney Wilkins received the appointment of secretary of Dakota when that territory was organized and his lot was henceforth cast with the people of that section. S. Dewey Lyman had been one of the early merchants in Maquoketa. He was admitted to the bar. and continued in practice until his advancing years compelled his withdrawal. He was a careful and accurate lawyer, but devoted himself almost exclusively to office business, and seldom took part in any trial. He died, respected by all who knew him. S.L. Baker was admitted at Andrew. He hung out his shingle first at Andrew, then in Maquoketa and afterward at Bellevue. He removed to Dakota and thence to Alabama, having abandoned the law for real estate many years ago. Frank Amos was badly wounded while in the army, and after he was mustered out, studied law and was admitted to the bar and became a partner of D.A. Fletcher. He removed from Maquoketa to Lemars in Sioux county, and died there after several years' practice. John W. Croker was associated in practice with W.L. Redmond at Bellevue in the early seventies but did not remain there long. The late L.B. Dunham had been admitted to practice before settling in Maquoketa in the early "fifties," but he engaged in banking and seldom appeared in court. He was also a graduate of Union College, and a classmate of Judge Bradley. He was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention of 1864, and in 1867 was elected senator from Jackson county. Thomas Wilber, who located in Maquoketa in "the fifties," was also a lawyer but was never actively in practice and the same may be said of his brother, the late J. Tilton Wilber, who settled in the same town some time in the sixties. George C. Heberling was a school teacher before he enlisted in the Twenty-fourth Regiment of Iowa Infantry. At Port Gibson he was wounded, but recovered sufficiently to serve out the term of his enlistment, and after his return studied law, and was admitted to practice about 1870. In 1871 he was elected one of the representatives of Jackson county in the State Legislature, and was reelected in 1873, and was an influential member of that body. In 1874 he was chairman of the Republican State Central Committee. He afterward was United States marshal for Iowa and the northern district of Iowa, and subsequently was claim agent of the C. M. & St. P. Railway, but returned to Sabula and engaged in practice. Increasing deafness, caused by his army wound, constrained him to retire, and he is now living at Seattle, Washington. Oilman L. Johnson, came from St. Lawrence county, New York, and settled in Maquoketa in 1870, and engaged in the practice of the law, and has been at it continuously ever since. He was first lieutenant in the One Hundred and Forty-second Regiment, New York Volunteers, and lost his right arm while in service in South Carolina. In 1881 he was elected a member of the House of Representatives of the Nineteenth General Assembly, and in 1883 he was elected senator for Jackson county, serving as such in the Twentieth and Twenty-first General Assemblies, and was an active and influential member. He has frequently represented the democrats of Jackson county in district and state conventions, and when the additional judge was provided for the Seventh Judicial District it was generally understood that he would be the first incumbent, but in the inscrutable manner in which conventions are conducted, the prize went to another and the subject of this article has continued at his work as Counsel. Allan J. House was a native of Canada but came to Maquoketa when very young. Having taught school in early manhood he was chosen county superintendent of schools, and served in that capacity for some years. He was afterward elected county auditor. Having studied law in the meantime he was admitted to the bar, September 29, 1870, and in 1878 became a member of the firm of Keck & House. In April, 1892, the legislature having provided for an additional judge in the Seventh Judicial District, Governor Boies appointed him district judge, and his service has been so acceptable that he has been elected without opposition continuously ever since. He has won the reputation of an accurate and painstaking judge, who hears patiently, examines carefully, and decides promptly and impartially every case brought before him. On this account the Democratic State Convention of 1909 nominated him for the position of supreme court judge, but he, of course, shared the fate of his party. Walter C. Gregory came to the bar in 1876, and still continues at work at his desk and in the courtroom, which he has not allowed to be interrupted since that date by any "call of the wild" to occupy appointive positions, or to be candidate for any office, though he served as county auditor before his admission, and takes a keen interest in political affairs, but beyond acting as a member of the State Central Committee, and attending republican conventions, and as a quiet but influential advisor of the trusted leaders of his party, takes no active part in politics. Frank M. Fort was admitted to practice, and after a few years removed to Sioux City. When the boom in that city collapsed he returned to his native town, but a short time afterward located in Clinton, where he is in the full tide of practice. If there has been any member of the Jackson county bar of any wider reading of legal works the fact has not become generally known. John �Ci�DC. �C/i�DCampbell has been a resident of Bellevue ever since his admission. He has not confined himself to the practice of law but has been engaged in other enterprises, and served as justice of the peace, and for many years has been postmaster of his town. A.L. Bartholomew came to the bar in the '70's, and still keeps his hand in, but had the good sense to engage also in a more lucrative occupation, and as manager of the State Bank of Preston has exercised a wide influence in his neighborhood. Thomas W. Gilruth opened a law office in Maquoketa about the time the railroad made its appearance but in a few years sought "fresh fields and pastures new." E.F. Richman also came to Maquoketa with the advent of the railroad, and entered upon the practice which he continued for a few years, but when his father, Hon. J. Scott Richman, returned to practice, in Muscatine, Frank also went back to his native town in partnership with him and is still in practice there. John C. Murray, a native of Maquoketa, was admitted, June 14, 1884, after graduating at the Iowa State University Law School, and has continued in practice at Maquoketa ever since, but has indulged his fancy for blooded cattle and horses by importing them and dealing largely in them, as well as in real estate. Charles W. Farr, another native of Maquoketa, was also a graduate of the State University Law School, and was admitted, June 14, 1884, in the same class with Murray. He served one term as county attorney, and was a successful prosecutor. He and Murray were partners for many years. Frank D. Kelsey was admitted in 1881. He served several terms as deputy auditor, and auditor before his admission, and also two terms as county attorney, and has been a successful advocate. B.F. Thomas, Jr., came to the bar and was elected justice of the peace in his first year of practice, but almost immediately removed to Omaha where he has been very successful. He served one term in the senate of Nebraska, and is now occupying the position of postmaster at Omaha, the most lucrative Federal office in the state. His brother, Charles M. Thomas, was admitted not long afterward and continues in partnership with his father. He also has served as county attorney. John E. Orr, a native of Jones county, located at Maquoketa, having formed a partnership with Mr. Stuart. After a few years they removed to the western part of the state. Mr. Orr first settled in Sioux county, where he was quite successful, but a few years ago removed to Spokane, in Washington, where fortune seems to smile on him. Willard H. Palmer, a native of Andrew, began his career as a lawyer in one of the western counties, but returned to his former home and is now serving his second term as county attorney. Eli Cole is a native of Bellevue where his shingle still hangs out. He has at all times divided his energies between the law, real estate and banking, and can afford to spend his winters in California. The other, and younger members of the bar, as George S. Hilsinger, who succeeded his father, the late Hon. John Hilsinger, at Sabula, in the law and in banking and to a seat in the legislature as well; Major E.C. Johnson, who commanded a company in the Philippines and is now given over wholly to military matters; Walter Keck, who is associated with his father in the firm of Keck & Keck; Fred W. Wyatt, referee in bankruptcy; S.D. Heide, who was formerly recorder; Mark M. Moulton, who was partner for a time with Hon. G.L. Johnson; John W. Sagers, who holds forth at Iron Hill; B.G. Knittle; Frank Wells, of Miles; and C.W. Bennick, of Bellevue, the last comer, will all occupy a larger share in the next history of Jackson county than they do in this. The Jackson bar has always been composed for the most part of modest and hard working lawyers who averaged up well with their brethren of the other counties of the state. The foregoing are believed to be all who have been members of the bar of Jackson county since its organization though it may be that some have been lost track of. It has been the intention to "let no guilty man escape." |
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Title: 1850 Federal Census Images for Bellevue, Jackson Co., Iowa Page: Daniel F. Spurr Publication: Taken Nov 1850. |
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Title: Kirkpatrick-Spurr post per Maggie Page: Daniel F. Spurr Author: Maggie Publication: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.iowa.counties.jackson/2721/mb.ashx Text: Message: 1, Date: Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:50:12 -0000 From: "�Cu�[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>�C/u�D" <�Cu�[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>�C/u�D> Subject: [IAJACKSO] Sarah Kirkpatrick's marriage to Daniel Spurr To: <�Cu�[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>�C/u�D> Message-ID: <�Cu�[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>�C/u�D> Content-Type: text/plain; This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: Familytreemagic Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: �Cu�D<http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.iowa.counties.jackson/2721/mb.ashx>�C/u�D Message Board Post: I am looking for a marriage record in early Jackson county records. Sarah Kirkpatrick lived in the Jackson county area from about 1837 or so and married Daniel F. Spurr. They were married between 1847 - 1849. Also is there any record of parents consent? Thank you in advance for your help. Maggie Link: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.iowa.counties.jackson/2721/mb.ashx |
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Title: Spurr family post per metaphor Page: Daniel F. Spurr Author: metaphor Publication: http://boards.ancestry.com/localities.northam.usa.states.california.counties.sonoma/3851.1.2.1.1/mb.ashx Text: Board: Message Boards > Localities > North America > United States > States > California > Counties > Sonoma URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/localities.northam.usa.states.california.counties.sonoma/3851.1 .2.1.1/mb.ashx Subject: Nora / Leonora SPURR, b. IA circa 1856 Author: metaphor Date: Sunday, August 21, 2005 Classification: Census Surnames: Spurr �Ctab�D Jeremy, I came across your query while researching a different individual named Nora SPURR. You may have located all the information you needed between the time you posted your query and now, but I will post here for you and other researchers what I found. 1870 US Census, CA, Sonoma, Mendocino [Twp], Healdsburg, Page 8 In the household of Susana MULGREW (line 28): SPURR, Leonora, 14, kept, born Iowa, idiot Also in Sonoma County in the 1870 census: 1870 US Census, CA, Sonoma, Mendocino [Twp], Healdsburg, Page 20 In the household of Henry HEBORN (line 20): 23 SPURR, Rose, 12, at home, born Iowa and 1870 US Census, CA, Sonoma, Mendocino [Twp], Healdsburg, Page 13 In the household of [Jonathan G.] PIPER, Physician (line 16): SPURR, Leslie, 20, male, Laborer, born Iowa and 1870 US Census, CA, Sonoma, Mendocino [Twp], Healdsburg, Page 2 In the household of George Miller, Distiller (line 13) SPURR, [Jas. or Jos.] C., 7, "At Millers", born CA All of this suggests a possibility that Nora and her siblings had been orphaned or abandoned, that their family migrated to CA from Iowa sometime between Rose's birth circa 1858 and James's birth circa 1863. The orphaned/abandoned notion, however, is brought into another light by the presence in Healdsburg in 1870 of an individual who may be the children's father: 1870 US Census, CA, Sonoma, Mendocino [Twp], Healdsburg, Page 5, line 11 SPURR, Danl. F., 47, Lawyer, personal property $500, born KY No one else lives in Daniel SPURR's household in 1870; it's possible that his wife died or otherwise was no longer part of the family, and that he was unable to care for his children personally. Note that Nora, Rose and Leslie all are listed as having been born in Iowa, which makes the following household a very likely match for Nora's family of origin. 1860 US Census, IA Jackson Bellevue, Page 27 Living in a Hotel kept by Pleasant R. CORMACK: Daniel F. SPURR, 37, Lawyer, personal property $2000, born KY Sarah A., 33, born IL [Leslie?] C., 11, male, born IA Henry C., 8, male Leonora, 5, female, born IA Rose, 3, female, born IA Richard J., 3 months, born IA And going back to 1850: 1850 US Census, IA, Jackson, Bellevue, Page 18 line 37 Daniel F. SPURR, 28, Att'y at Law, born Kentucky Sarah H., 24, born Ills [Illinois] [Lisli?] C., 1, born IA Sarah WARREN, 7, born IA Roxanna TUCKER?, 17, born Ills [Illinois?] Note that by 1880 Daniel SPURR is living in Cloverdale/Sonoma/CA with his 20-year-old son Richard, who is listed as having been born in Iowa, all of which fits with the 1860 census above. In an adjacent household in the 1880 census is a 16-year-old Joseph whose surname looks like Spurr; his birthplace is listed as California and his parents' birthplaces are listed as KY, suggesting that this is also Daniel's son. 1880 US Census, CA, Sonoma, Cloverdale In the household of Claiborne WARTH (line 8): SPURR, Joseph, 16, Boarder, laborer, born CA, parents born KY In the next household: SPURR, Daniel F., 57, Attorney, born KY, parents born KY --Richard, 20, son, laborer, MOORE, Alfred C., 65, boarder, laborer, born MO, parents born MO FISH, D. F., 48, boarder, laborer, born ENG, parents born ENG Interesting to note that the Iowa Cemetery Records database index shows the following: Name: Daniel F. Spurr Page #: 227 Cemetery: Republic Town: Bellevue Level Info: Cemetery Records of Jackson County, Iowa This may be Daniel the attorney, gone back to IA, or perhaps a son who died in infancy or childhood before the family moved to California, or perhaps his father. The Iowa Biographical Dictionary, 1878 (p. 534) mentions an individual who may be Nora's father, or perhaps her grandfather: "[Eugene Cowles] practiced in Bellevue in company with Judge D.F. Spurr until 1859, at which time he [Cowles?] moved to Dubuque ..." Note that I also found a SPURR household in 1860 in Solano county with a mother named Sarah, but the father's name is William and the children's names, ages and birthplaces don't mesh with the information from the 1850 in Iowa.�Ctab�D Link: http://boards.ancestry.com/localities.northam.usa.states.california.counties.sonoma/3851.1 |
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Title: Sarah Kirkpatrick post per Treat Page: Daniel Francis Spurr Author: Diane Treat Publication: http://genforum.genealogy.com/ca/messages/32448.html Text: Posted By:�Ctab�DDiane Treat Email:�Ctab�D Subject:�Ctab�DSarah Ann Kirkpatrick Spurr Post Date:�Ctab�DMay 14, 2009 at 20:23:24 Message URL: http://genforum.genealogy.com/ca/messages/32448.html Forum:�Ctab�DCalifornia Genealogy Forum Forum URL:�Ctab�Dhttp://genforum.genealogy.com/ca/ �Ctab�DDaniel Francis Spurr (b. 17 Aug 1822 Fayette county, KY, d. 13 Dec 1902 Mendocino county, CA), son of Daniel M Spurr and Barbara Beatty, married Sarah Ann Kirkpatrick (b. abt 1826 IL, d. Dec 1865, Healdsburg, Sonoma, CA). They lived in Bellevue, Jackson, IA, where six of their children were born, then moved to northern California after 1860, and three more children were born there. Joseph Scott Spurr, their 8th child, is my great grandfather. I believe that Sarah Ann Kirkpatrick was the 4th child of James Lane Kirkpatrick and Phereby (or Thereby or Phoebe) Hufner. Can anyone verify her parents and give me her date of birth? Does anyone know of a Spurr genealogy book that might help me? Thank you. Link: http://genforum.genealogy.com/ca/messages/32448.html Link: http://genforum.genealogy.com/ca/ |
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Title: Spurr-Kirkpatrick post per dcar46 Page: Daniel Francis Spurr Author: dcar46 Publication: http://boards.ancestry.com.au/surnames.kirkpatrick/1643/mb.ashx Text: Board: Message Boards > Surnames > Kirkpatrick URL: http://boards.ancestry.com.au/surnames.kirkpatrick/1643/mb.ashx Subject: Sarah Ann KIRKPATRICK, b 1826, Illinois; d 1865, Healdsburg, Sonoma, California Author: dcar46 Date: Wednesday, 8 July 2009 Classification: Query Surnames: KIRKPATRICK, LANE, HUFNER, SPURR �Ctab�D I understand that James Lane KIRKPATRICK was born 22 Mar 1802 in Jefferson county, Georgia. His parents were John KIRKPATRICK and Sarah Winifred LANE, both from South Carolina. James married Phereby (or Thereby or Phoebe) HUFNER, 29 Mar 1821, in Bond county, Illinois. They moved to Bellevue, Jackson, Iowa, where James died in 1856. I have seen lists of their nine children, where the fourth child is not named, just called "daughter KIRKPATRICK", born in Illinois in 1826. This is my problem: I believe that my 2nd great grandmother, Sarah Ann KIRKPATRICK, is this daughter. She and her husband, Daniel Francis SPURR, lived in Bellevue, Iowa, until about 1860, when the KIRKPATRICKS also seemed to leave the area. Daniel was a lawyer and judge in Bellevue, and later in northern California. They lived in close proximity to the KIRKPATRICKS in 1850 and 1860. Can anyone help me to link Sarah Ann KIRKPATRICK to James Lane KIRKPATRICK?�Ctab�D Link: http://boards.ancestry.com.au/surnames.kirkpatrick/1643/mb.ashx |
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Title: 1856 Bellevue, Jackson Co., Iowa census Page: Dan F. Spurr |
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Title: 1860 Federal Census Images for Bellevue, Jackson Co, Iowa Page: Daniel F. Spurr |
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Title: The Bar of Jackson Co., Iowa by Hon. William Graham Page: Kentucky, bluegrass region Author: Hon. William Graham Publication: THE BAR OF JACKSON COUNTY BY HON. WILLIAM GRAHAM Pg 86-94 Text: x THE BAR OF JACKSON COUNTY. BY HON. WILLIAM GRAHAM. The earliest resident lawyer of Jackson county is believed to have been Philip B. Bradley, who was born in Ridgefield, Connecticut, January 5, 1809. He graduated at Union College, Schenectady, New York, in the class of 1829, of which class the late Senator L.B. Dunham, of Maquoketa, was also a member. In 1834 he located in Galena, Illinois, and was appointed prosecuting attorney, in 1836, and a year later postmaster of Galena. In 1839 he removed to Iowa, making his home in Jackson county, and soon entered the practice of his profession. He early entered political life and in 1843 he became clerk of the District Court. In 1845 he was elected a member of the legislative council, and in 1845 became the first member for Jackson and Jones counties in the senate of the newly admitted State of Iowa. In 1850 and again in 1852 he was secretary of the senate, and was also elected one of the representatives of Jackson county in 1858 and again in 1877. He was also elected county judge in 1861 and served one term. In 1852 he was a delegate from Iowa to the democratic national convention at Baltimore, and voted for General Cass until his nomination was hopeless, when he transferred his vote to Stephen A. Douglas until on the final ballot he cast it for Franklin Pierce. He was a member of the committee on resolutions in this convention. Judge Bradley was a genial gentleman of polished manners, and was adroit and skillful politician. He was largely instrumental in securing the nomination of his neighbor, Ansel Briggs, for governor, and is credited with the management of the campaign which resulted in his election. He was one of the chiefs of the "Andrew Clique" which had such a potent influence in the early politics of Iowa. During the first session of the legislature while Bradley was senator, the democrats had six majority in the senate and the whigs six majority in the house of representatives, so that neither party could command a majority on joint ballot, and the situation was still further complicated by the fact that three democrats and one whig refused to support their caucus nominees for senators or judges of the Supreme Court. During the joint convention after the whigs had failed to elect their men, a proposition was made to Bradley that if he would furnish half a dozen votes to elect M.D. Browning, a whig, from Burlington, senator, they would in turn elect Bradley to the United States senate. The offer was declined, but Phil persuaded enough whigs to vote with the democrats to adjourn the convention, and the senate would not afterward agree to hold a joint convention, and the election of senators went over to the next legislature, although Governor Briggs called a special session in expectation that the democratic nominees could be elected. If Bradley had accepted the offer the early political history of Iowa might have been written differently. Jacob Y. Blackwell also came to Andrew about 1846. He is well remembered for his fondness for "Sesquipedalian" words and for his curious facility in misplacing them. He was in California for a time, and afterward in Minnesota, but returned to Jackson county and remained there until the latter part of the sixties, when he removed to Iowa City, of which place he was at one time city attorney, and also represented Johnson county in the legislature. He died a good while ago in New Jersey. One of the early lawyers was Chenowyth, who is chiefly remembered by the suit which he brought to replevy forty acres; of land and a sawmill. He was among the early emigrants to the Pacific Coast, meeting with untold hardships on the way, and losing his little daughter among the Indians. He afterward became a successful lawyer in Oregon. J. McGarl and Frank F. Taylor practiced law for a little while in Bellevue, but McGarl died while on a business trip to New Orleans, and in 1853 Taylor removed to California where he acquired a comfortable estate. Dan F. Spurr, Joseph Kelso and Fred Bangs all located in Jackson about 1847. Spurr was a member of an influential family in the bluegrass region of Kentucky. A college graduate and a well read lawyer, he was also a man of genial manners, and soon attained great popularity. He was elected county judge in 1851. In those days the county judge was not only judge of the Probate Court, but possessed the powers of issuing or dissolving injunctions, and hearing writs of habeas corpus. He also exercised all the powers since vested in the board of supervisors, and the auditor, and many of those now exercised by the clerk of the District Court. In fact very few officers anywhere in the United States possessed powers so extensive as those exercised by the county judges of Iowa under the Code of 1851. Judge Spurr's administration of county affairs was a lamentable failure. His popularity was such that he held the position for six years, and in 1855 was prominently urged for judge of the Supreme Court against Judge Isbell. His convivial habits grew upon him, and worked his ruin, and in 1857, he and his party associates were retired from office. Soon afterward he removed to California, but never again regained his standing at the bar, and died a few years ago in very reduced circumstances. Kelso was born near Belfast, Ireland, where his father was a Presbyterian minister. In 1840 he came to the United States and at first settled in the Valley of Virginia, but remained there but a short time and went to Lancaster, Ohio, and began the study of law in the office of Hon. Thomas Corwin, afterwards governor of Ohio, senator and secretary of the treasury. About 1845 he came to Galena and entered the office of John M. Douglas, afterward president of the Illinois Central Railroad. He started as a lawyer in Bellevue under very adverse circumstances, but his industry and integrity won for him business and wealth. He was prosecuting attorney in 1851 to 1853, and it is said that he never indicted a man whom he failed to convict. He was also county judge from 1857 to 1859, to the great benefit of the taxpayers. He afterward engaged in banking, and died a few years ago at an advanced age leaving a large estate, and an untarnished reputation. Fred Bangs first settled at Andrew and soon afterward became private secretary to Governor Briggs. His early days had been spent in a printing office, and he became an accurate and careful writer. He was prosecuting attorney from 1855 for two or three years, and afterward removed to Tama county and from there to Harrison county, where he died a few years ago. He had a large fund of stories about the legislators and state officers of early days, and it is a great pity he did not print them. J.W. Jenkins settled in Maquoketa about 1850. He was a candidate for senator of state in 1852, and was elected senator in 1856, and was afterward lieutenant colonel and colonel of the Thirty-first Iowa Infantry. At the close of the war, he removed to Kansas City, and died there a few years ago. William A. Maginnis came to Bellevue in 1851. He was prosecuting attorney from 1853 to 1855, and in 1875 was elected state senator. His genial nature and infectious laugh were almost irresistible. His good nature led him into financial difficulties, and the foundation of a comfortable fortune was exhausted in paying other people's debts. He was a democrat in the early years, but in his latter days became a prohibitionist of the most pronounced type. William P. Montgomery located in Maquoketa early in "the fifties," but before the close of the decade he went to Kansas, and was living at Topeka at the time that town was sacked, and its inhabitants murdered by Quantrell's band of guerrillas. Montgomery escaped by hiding in a cornfield until the cutthroats had left the neighborhood. Hon. Judge Booth settled in Bellevue in 1851 and soon took the first place among the members of the Jackson county bar. He was a native of Orange county, New York, where he was born June 1, 1792. He was admitted to practice as an attorney when he arrived at his majority and settled at Goshen and three years later received his certificate of admission as counselor at law. When he was admitted to the bar Ambrose Spencer was chief justice of New York, and his license to practice as a solicitor in chancery was signed by the great Chancellor Kent. In 1827 he was appointed one of the judges of the Common Pleas Court, and in 1830 became surrogate of his native county, which position he held for about eleven years. He was a man of ability, thoroughly grounded in the fundamentals of the law, a hard fighter and a tireless worker. Soon after he had been licensed to practice as an attorney, he was selected by the celebrated Aaron Burr, who had a large practice in that region, as his correspondent, and in that capacity attended to the local details of his business in that vicinity until. he went on the bench. He early entered political life and was one of the famed Albany Regency, which controlled the fortunes of the democratic party in that state for so many years. This connection brought him into terms of intimacy with the leading democratic politicians of New York, as President Van Buren, Governor Marcy, General Dix, Flagg, Van Dyck, Judge Duer, Judge Brown, and Silas Wright, whose friendship he retained through life and which cost him many hard fought battles. Judge Booth was interested in the Erie Railroad from the time of its inception; was one of its incorporators, and also for many years one of its most active directors. At one time when it seemed that the enterprise must be abandoned, he with six other of the directors each built a mile of the road at their own expense, and thus secured its extension to Middletown and saved the life of the corporation. Judge Booth came to Iowa in 1851 and settled in Bellevue and easily took his place in the front rank of the bar of Jackson county. In 1854 he was appointed judge of the District Court to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Judge W E. Leffingwell, but after one year's service resigned and returned to the practice of his profession, which he continued up to the time of his death, which occurred February 18, 1869. The day before his death he concluded the distribution of a large estate, and the distribution sheet prepared by him was clear and accurate, and written as legibly and firmly as any he had prepared forty years before. The Iowa bar has had few equals and no superior in either equity or probate law. He was quaint and peculiar in his manners, and every member of the bar had some good story to tell at his expense, but he was not often worsted by any of them in a lawsuit. His success was largely attributable to the fact that no fee was large enough to induce him to accept the prosecution or defense of a case that he believed after examination, he either could not, or ought not to win. The maxim most frequently on his lips was that "it is the lawyer's first duty to keep his client out of lawsuits." His aid and counsel were always at the disposal of the younger members of the bar, and with all his peculiarities few persons ever had a kinder heart. Judge Booth was nearly all his life a member of the Presbyterian church and was frequently commissioned to sit in its judicatories, and was for a while a director of the seminary of that church at Chicago. The church of that denomination at Bellevue owes its existence to him, and much of the larger part of the cost of their edifice was defrayed by him. When his death was announced to the Supreme Court, Judge Dillon, then chief justice of that tribunal, paid a touching tribute to his memory. In 1854 Joseph S. Darling was admitted to the bar and settled at Sabula. Afterward he located in Bellevue, and with the removal of the county seat to Andrew, he also moved to the "Geographical Center," and while living there served one term as county judge. He subsequently went to Clinton and after twenty years' residence there, took up his residence at Arkansas. He is still in active practice. He was one of the best equipped lawyers in the state, and able to compete with any of his competitors, and recent trials have demonstrated that his hand has not lost its cunning, and that "Time's effacing fingers" has not yet touched his intellect, nor swept from his mind its stores of legal learning. A.S. Rosecrans some time during "the fifties" located at Fulton and practiced law there for some years. In May, 1856, Dean A. Fletcher was enrolled among the lawyers of Jackson county and his name has never been erased. He was a native of Essex county, New York, and graduated from Vermont University at Burlington, and also from the Poughkeepsie Law School. He located at Maquoketa, where he still lives, and is the lawyer longest of any in practice at this bar, but his service has not been continuous as he devoted several years to teaching and was also for several terms superintendent of schools in this county. Rufus S. Hadley also practiced law in Maquoketa for a few years, but in 1858 removed to Anamosa. William Graham settled in Bellevue in August, 1856, and was admitted to the bar of Jackson county, September 8th following, and at once entered into partnership with Hon. John B. Booth, which continued until dissolved by the death of the senior member in February, 1869. He was a native of Montgomery, Orange county, New York, and graduated at Union College in 1851. After one year spent in teaching, he studied law and was admitted to the bar at Brooklyn, his certificate of admission bearing date January 8, 1856. The firm of Booth and Graham did a large business in Jackson and adjoining counties, but in 1867 the junior partner removed to Dubuque, where he is still actively engaged in the practice of the law and visits Jackson county every term of court or oftener. Since coming to this state in 1856, he has never engaged in any business or accepted any position that would interfere in the least with his profession. Eugene Cowles, of Maquoketa, was admitted to the bar on the same day with Graham, and immediately became associated with Judge Spurr as partner at Bellevue. The firm was dissolved shortly before Spurr's removal to California, and Cowles located for a short time in Maquoketa, but soon removed to Dubuque, and while located there was persuaded by some Boston clients to undertake the management of their mills at Canton. After two or three years he sold the mills for his clients, and then engaged with his brother in the commission business in Dubuque, and after a successful career there they removed to Chicago, where they suffered the loss of everything in the Chicago fire. Cowles returned to Iowa and finally located at Cherokee and again entered the practice of the law, and while in the enjoyment of a successful and lucrative business his career was cut short by a sudden and fatal illness. In the early part of 1857 Charles Rich, a native of Vermont, where he graduated at the University of Vermont at Burlington, came from Gouverneur, St. Lawrence county, New York, where he had practiced for some years, to Maquoketa, and became a partner of D.A. Fletcher, and the firm of Rich and Fletcher continued until Mr. Fletcher was elected superintendent of schools, and from that time Mr. Rich was alone. He was an able lawyer, but on account of some errors made soon after coming to this state, neither his abilities nor his merits received full recognition for some years. He was an indefatigable worker, and gave himself no relaxation, and his increasing labors sapped his vitality, and in the spring of 1874 while in the full tide of success he succumbed to an attack of pneumonia. Charles M. Dunbar was admitted to the bar in 1857 and kept his office in Maquoketa until his increasing deafness obliged him to retire from practice some years before his sudden death in 1903. He was the democratic candidate for attorney general in 1864, and was for several years a valuable member of the board of directors of the Iowa Agricultural College at Ames. Noble L. Earner, and A.C. Laing both settled in Sabula in the later "fifties," but remained only a short time and then removed to other localities. John Hilsinger opened his law office in Sabula in 1858, coming there from Cortland county, New York, where he was admitted to the bar in 1857, and where he remained until his death. In 1860 he was elected one of the first board of supervisors and continued to serve in that capacity as long as he would accept the office. In 1863 he was elected senator and served four years. He also served one term as prosecuting attorney, and was for many years treasurer of the Ancient Order of United Workmen. Mr. Hilsinger was an accurate and successful business man as well as a careful and prudent lawyer, and a handsome competency rewarded his labors. He engaged in banking and gradually withdrew from the contests in the forum, which were always distasteful to him. Early in 1859, B.F. Thomas opened a law office at Andrew, and a few years afterward escaped being elected county judge by the narrow margin of five votes. During the Civil war he engaged in collecting war claims, and procuring pensions, and by his energy and perseverance built up a larger business than any other pension lawyer in Iowa, having procured pensions for residents of every state and territory in the Union. With the removal of the county seat to Maquoketa, he followed the records, and is still in the full tide of successful practice in partnership with his son, Charles M. Thomas. Henry F. Severens came to Bellevue in 1857 as a teacher, but soon resigned, and entered the office of Booth and Graham as a student. He afterwards went back to Vermont, and was admitted to practice there, but within a few years returned as far west as Michigan where he has had a distinguished and prosperous career. He was for seventeen years a partner of Senator Burrows at Kalamazoo, and while they were partners they were candidates for Congress, Burrows on the republican and Severens on the democratic ticket, but politics did not interfere with their friendship. President Cleveland appointed Mr. Severens district judge of the United States Court, and President McKinley promoted him to the position of circuit judge of the Court of Appeals, a higher position than has been reached by any other student, or member of the bar of Jackson county. From 1858 to 1861 there were five young fellows studying law in the various law offices in Bellevue, all of whom were afterwards admitted to the bar: Don A. Wynkoop, David Kelso, Thomas W. Darling, W. Dailey Wilson and Frank A. Bettis. Of these Wynkoop in 1861 was admitted first, and passed all the rest of his life in the practice of law in Jackson county, for many years at Bellevue, and afterward at Maquoketa, and it is believed that he tried a greater number of law suits than any other resident member of the bar. He was a man of ready speech and genial wit, and was well versed in criminal law and the law of torts, and tried all his cases with great vigor, and did not hesitate to attack anybody or anything which stood between him and success. He died very suddenly. David Kelso was a half brother of Judge Kelso, and almost as soon as he was admitted to the bar he went with Capt. W.A. Warren, who had been appointed quartermaster in the army, as clerk, and as such rendered valuable service to his county. After the war he settled in Kansas, and in a few years became the personal counsel of Jay Gould in his matters in Kansas and Colorado, which position he retained during the life of that financier. He acquired a large estate and is still living at Kansas City. W. Dailey Wilson returned to his former home in Indiana, and was a successful lawyer, but retired to engage in agricultural pursuits. His modesty led him to decline a nomination for Congress when his election was assured. Bettis also went with Capt. Warren as clerk. He, after the war, opened an office in Bellevue for a brief time but removed to Kansas, where he was partner with Kelso for a while, and is now understood to be living in Spokane. T.W. Darling (Tom, as everybody calls him) is still a resident of Jackson county, having his office at Preston. If he had stuck to the law, he could have attained distinction, but other things had a greater attraction for him, and in consequence his abilities have not received the recognition they would otherwise have attracted. He is the only one of the quintette living in Jackson county. In 1861 when the county seat was removed from Bellevue to Andrew, two young men came from Columbiana county, Ohio, and opened a law office in Andrew under the firm name of Brown and Hill, and also commenced making an abstract of the conveyances of record. The outbreak of the war so broke up business that Hill soon returned to Ohio, and Brown became for a time partner with J.S. Darling, but in a few months went to the war also, and neither returned to Jackson county afterward. In the same year James C.H. Hobbs, who had been a doctor in Galena, but had abandoned it for the law, opened an office in Andrew also, but he too got the war fever and enlisted. He became a regimental surgeon and afterward brigade surgeon, and at the close of the war returned to Andrew and reopened his law office, but in a few months became a backslider, and entered the ministry of the Methodist church, and spent the remainder of his life in Illinois preaching the gospel. Samuel S. Simpson was born in Virginia but was brought to Iowa, when an infant. He was educated at the Rock River Seminary at Mt. Morris, Illinois, and after studying law in the office of Booth and Graham, was admitted to practice in 1862. He was partner with D.A. Wynkoop for a year or two but from that time was alone save for a brief partnership with I.P.H. Cowden. He was for a while editor and proprietor of a democratic paper at Bellevue, and was twice elected representative in the general assembly. His family having inherited a large tract of land in Kansas, he removed to that state in order to protect their interests and died there. William L. Redmond, who had been superintendent of schools in 1860 and 1861, was admitted about the same time. He became owner of the abstract which Brown and Hill had started, and completed it under circumstances that would have deterred almost any other man. He suffered untold torture from an affection of the eyes, and his struggles with poverty for years were pathetic. In 1864 he was elected recorder and introduced a number of reforms in the conduct of that office, the effect of which is seen until the present day. He became well versed in the law of real estate and engaged in banking, first with Judge Keiso, and afterward with B.W. Seaward. His industry and application to business was intense, and with the drugs which he took to alleviate the pain in his eyes, his mind became affected, and while suffering from a hallucination was drowned in the Mississippi River. I.P.H. Cowden was also a law student when the war broke out. Disappointed in not being able to enlist in the First Iowa Infantry, he went to Galena and enlisted in an Illinois regiment, and was severely injured in a railroad accident on his way to the front. He recovered and served through the war and after his return was admitted to practice and formed a partnership with S.S. Simpson, but his service in the army implanted in him the seeds of consumption and he died on the threshhold of his career. The same fate befell William Galloway, a native of Jackson township, who was among the first to enlist, and after the restoration of peace was admitted to the bar at Andrew, but soon after removed to Waterloo, where he too died of consumption resulting from his army life. These two young men laid down their lives for their country as truly as if they had perished on the field of battle. Levi Keck was admitted early. He had been engaged in business in Andrew from the time he came to the state in 185-- and in 1864 and 5 was deputy treasurer. He became associated with Redmond in the abstract business, and is still engaged in it, first as Redmond & Keck, then Keck & House, and now as Levi Keck & Sons. It is doubtful whether any man in the county ever put in more hours of hard work, and the wonder is how he ever found time to become the well read and accurate lawyer that he is. He served one term as prosecuting attorney, but has withstood all temptations to enter political life. His name has long been a synonym for integrity and uprightness of character, and it is a pleasure to know that his work has brought him a rich return of this world's goods, and that his conduct has won for him the esteem (not to say affection) of the whole county. In the summer of 1861 John W. Watson came to Bellevue from Catskill, New York, where his father had been one of the judges of the Supreme Court. He had studied law in Connecticut with Governor Seymour of that state, and expected, as soon as he was admitted here, to enter into partnership with his brother-in-law, William Graham. He had been here but a short time when the war fever carried him off, and he enlisted with the Curtis Horse, which afterward became the Fifth Iowa Cavalry. He was lieutenant in Company H of that regiment, and was for a year and a half brigade inspector on the staff of General Lowe, who was the first colonel of the regiment. His company was in McCook's raid around Atlanta, where it was broken up and its commanding officer taken captive. Its first captain had been promoted major. Lieutenant Watson resigned his position on the staff of General Lowe, and took command of his company, and reorganized it and was ready for active service under Thomas when Hood attempted to capture Nashville. On the morning of December 15, 1864, while in the act of giving orders for a charge he was instantly killed by a shell. He had never missed a day's service from the time of his enlistment, except a brief furlough when he went to Gettysburg to visit his only brother, Major M.F. Watson, who graduated at West Point the first year of the war, and lost his right leg in checking Barksdale's advance on Little Round Top. "Jack," as he was familiarly known, was the life of his company, and a universal favorite. In 1864 George W. Wood became a member of the firm of Booth and Graham, at Bellevue, but after about a year returned to New York and engaged in manufacturing and never afterward resumed the practice of law. Alvah Wilson settled in Maquoketa and entered upon the practice of the law, but soon afterward returned to New York. In March, 1866, Colonel Charles A. Clark was admitted to the bar on examination. He had been a volunteer in a Maine Regiment and had risen to be colonel, and after the war studied law. He did not remain in Jackson county, but located first at Webster City, and from there removed to Cedar Rapids, where he is in full tide of practice, and is accounted one of the leading lawyers of the state. Three other young men were admitted at Andrew while it was the county seat. Of these, T.E. Ellwood still remains in the county and has his office at Maquoketa. D.C. McKillip, in a few years, removed to Nebraska where he has had a successful'career, and was at one time a member of the legislature of that state. M. Turney Wilkins received the appointment of secretary of Dakota when that territory was organized and his lot was henceforth cast with the people of that section. S. Dewey Lyman had been one of the early merchants in Maquoketa. He was admitted to the bar. and continued in practice until his advancing years compelled his withdrawal. He was a careful and accurate lawyer, but devoted himself almost exclusively to office business, and seldom took part in any trial. He died, respected by all who knew him. S.L. Baker was admitted at Andrew. He hung out his shingle first at Andrew, then in Maquoketa and afterward at Bellevue. He removed to Dakota and thence to Alabama, having abandoned the law for real estate many years ago. Frank Amos was badly wounded while in the army, and after he was mustered out, studied law and was admitted to the bar and became a partner of D.A. Fletcher. He removed from Maquoketa to Lemars in Sioux county, and died there after several years' practice. John W. Croker was associated in practice with W.L. Redmond at Bellevue in the early seventies but did not remain there long. The late L.B. Dunham had been admitted to practice before settling in Maquoketa in the early "fifties," but he engaged in banking and seldom appeared in court. He was also a graduate of Union College, and a classmate of Judge Bradley. He was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention of 1864, and in 1867 was elected senator from Jackson county. Thomas Wilber, who located in Maquoketa in "the fifties," was also a lawyer but was never actively in practice and the same may be said of his brother, the late J. Tilton Wilber, who settled in the same town some time in the sixties. George C. Heberling was a school teacher before he enlisted in the Twenty-fourth Regiment of Iowa Infantry. At Port Gibson he was wounded, but recovered sufficiently to serve out the term of his enlistment, and after his return studied law, and was admitted to practice about 1870. In 1871 he was elected one of the representatives of Jackson county in the State Legislature, and was reelected in 1873, and was an influential member of that body. In 1874 he was chairman of the Republican State Central Committee. He afterward was United States marshal for Iowa and the northern district of Iowa, and subsequently was claim agent of the C. M. & St. P. Railway, but returned to Sabula and engaged in practice. Increasing deafness, caused by his army wound, constrained him to retire, and he is now living at Seattle, Washington. Oilman L. Johnson, came from St. Lawrence county, New York, and settled in Maquoketa in 1870, and engaged in the practice of the law, and has been at it continuously ever since. He was first lieutenant in the One Hundred and Forty-second Regiment, New York Volunteers, and lost his right arm while in service in South Carolina. In 1881 he was elected a member of the House of Representatives of the Nineteenth General Assembly, and in 1883 he was elected senator for Jackson county, serving as such in the Twentieth and Twenty-first General Assemblies, and was an active and influential member. He has frequently represented the democrats of Jackson county in district and state conventions, and when the additional judge was provided for the Seventh Judicial District it was generally understood that he would be the first incumbent, but in the inscrutable manner in which conventions are conducted, the prize went to another and the subject of this article has continued at his work as Counsel. Allan J. House was a native of Canada but came to Maquoketa when very young. Having taught school in early manhood he was chosen county superintendent of schools, and served in that capacity for some years. He was afterward elected county auditor. Having studied law in the meantime he was admitted to the bar, September 29, 1870, and in 1878 became a member of the firm of Keck & House. In April, 1892, the legislature having provided for an additional judge in the Seventh Judicial District, Governor Boies appointed him district judge, and his service has been so acceptable that he has been elected without opposition continuously ever since. He has won the reputation of an accurate and painstaking judge, who hears patiently, examines carefully, and decides promptly and impartially every case brought before him. On this account the Democratic State Convention of 1909 nominated him for the position of supreme court judge, but he, of course, shared the fate of his party. Walter C. Gregory came to the bar in 1876, and still continues at work at his desk and in the courtroom, which he has not allowed to be interrupted since that date by any "call of the wild" to occupy appointive positions, or to be candidate for any office, though he served as county auditor before his admission, and takes a keen interest in political affairs, but beyond acting as a member of the State Central Committee, and attending republican conventions, and as a quiet but influential advisor of the trusted leaders of his party, takes no active part in politics. Frank M. Fort was admitted to practice, and after a few years removed to Sioux City. When the boom in that city collapsed he returned to his native town, but a short time afterward located in Clinton, where he is in the full tide of practice. If there has been any member of the Jackson county bar of any wider reading of legal works the fact has not become generally known. John �Ci�DC. �C/i�DCampbell has been a resident of Bellevue ever since his admission. He has not confined himself to the practice of law but has been engaged in other enterprises, and served as justice of the peace, and for many years has been postmaster of his town. A.L. Bartholomew came to the bar in the '70's, and still keeps his hand in, but had the good sense to engage also in a more lucrative occupation, and as manager of the State Bank of Preston has exercised a wide influence in his neighborhood. Thomas W. Gilruth opened a law office in Maquoketa about the time the railroad made its appearance but in a few years sought "fresh fields and pastures new." E.F. Richman also came to Maquoketa with the advent of the railroad, and entered upon the practice which he continued for a few years, but when his father, Hon. J. Scott Richman, returned to practice, in Muscatine, Frank also went back to his native town in partnership with him and is still in practice there. John C. Murray, a native of Maquoketa, was admitted, June 14, 1884, after graduating at the Iowa State University Law School, and has continued in practice at Maquoketa ever since, but has indulged his fancy for blooded cattle and horses by importing them and dealing largely in them, as well as in real estate. Charles W. Farr, another native of Maquoketa, was also a graduate of the State University Law School, and was admitted, June 14, 1884, in the same class with Murray. He served one term as county attorney, and was a successful prosecutor. He and Murray were partners for many years. Frank D. Kelsey was admitted in 1881. He served several terms as deputy auditor, and auditor before his admission, and also two terms as county attorney, and has been a successful advocate. B.F. Thomas, Jr., came to the bar and was elected justice of the peace in his first year of practice, but almost immediately removed to Omaha where he has been very successful. He served one term in the senate of Nebraska, and is now occupying the position of postmaster at Omaha, the most lucrative Federal office in the state. His brother, Charles M. Thomas, was admitted not long afterward and continues in partnership with his father. He also has served as county attorney. John E. Orr, a native of Jones county, located at Maquoketa, having formed a partnership with Mr. Stuart. After a few years they removed to the western part of the state. Mr. Orr first settled in Sioux county, where he was quite successful, but a few years ago removed to Spokane, in Washington, where fortune seems to smile on him. Willard H. Palmer, a native of Andrew, began his career as a lawyer in one of the western counties, but returned to his former home and is now serving his second term as county attorney. Eli Cole is a native of Bellevue where his shingle still hangs out. He has at all times divided his energies between the law, real estate and banking, and can afford to spend his winters in California. The other, and younger members of the bar, as George S. Hilsinger, who succeeded his father, the late Hon. John Hilsinger, at Sabula, in the law and in banking and to a seat in the legislature as well; Major E.C. Johnson, who commanded a company in the Philippines and is now given over wholly to military matters; Walter Keck, who is associated with his father in the firm of Keck & Keck; Fred W. Wyatt, referee in bankruptcy; S.D. Heide, who was formerly recorder; Mark M. Moulton, who was partner for a time with Hon. G.L. Johnson; John W. Sagers, who holds forth at Iron Hill; B.G. Knittle; Frank Wells, of Miles; and C.W. Bennick, of Bellevue, the last comer, will all occupy a larger share in the next history of Jackson county than they do in this. The Jackson bar has always been composed for the most part of modest and hard working lawyers who averaged up well with their brethren of the other counties of the state. The foregoing are believed to be all who have been members of the bar of Jackson county since its organization though it may be that some have been lost track of. It has been the intention to "let no guilty man escape." |
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Title: 1850 Federal Census Images for Bellevue, Jackson Co., Iowa Page: abt 1822, KY Publication: Taken Nov 1850. |
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Title: Sarah Kirkpatrick post per Treat Page: 17 Aug 1822, Fayette county, KY Author: Diane Treat Publication: http://genforum.genealogy.com/ca/messages/32448.html Text: Posted By:�Ctab�DDiane Treat Email:�Ctab�D Subject:�Ctab�DSarah Ann Kirkpatrick Spurr Post Date:�Ctab�DMay 14, 2009 at 20:23:24 Message URL: http://genforum.genealogy.com/ca/messages/32448.html Forum:�Ctab�DCalifornia Genealogy Forum Forum URL:�Ctab�Dhttp://genforum.genealogy.com/ca/ �Ctab�DDaniel Francis Spurr (b. 17 Aug 1822 Fayette county, KY, d. 13 Dec 1902 Mendocino county, CA), son of Daniel M Spurr and Barbara Beatty, married Sarah Ann Kirkpatrick (b. abt 1826 IL, d. Dec 1865, Healdsburg, Sonoma, CA). They lived in Bellevue, Jackson, IA, where six of their children were born, then moved to northern California after 1860, and three more children were born there. Joseph Scott Spurr, their 8th child, is my great grandfather. I believe that Sarah Ann Kirkpatrick was the 4th child of James Lane Kirkpatrick and Phereby (or Thereby or Phoebe) Hufner. Can anyone verify her parents and give me her date of birth? Does anyone know of a Spurr genealogy book that might help me? Thank you. Link: http://genforum.genealogy.com/ca/messages/32448.html Link: http://genforum.genealogy.com/ca/ |
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Title: 1856 Bellevue, Jackson Co., Iowa census Page: abt 1824, KY |
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Title: 1860 Federal Census Images for Bellevue, Jackson Co, Iowa Page: abt 1823, KY |
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Title: Sarah Kirkpatrick post per Treat Page: 13 Dec 1902 Mendocino county, CA Author: Diane Treat Publication: http://genforum.genealogy.com/ca/messages/32448.html Text: Posted By:�Ctab�DDiane Treat Email:�Ctab�D Subject:�Ctab�DSarah Ann Kirkpatrick Spurr Post Date:�Ctab�DMay 14, 2009 at 20:23:24 Message URL: http://genforum.genealogy.com/ca/messages/32448.html Forum:�Ctab�DCalifornia Genealogy Forum Forum URL:�Ctab�Dhttp://genforum.genealogy.com/ca/ �Ctab�DDaniel Francis Spurr (b. 17 Aug 1822 Fayette county, KY, d. 13 Dec 1902 Mendocino county, CA), son of Daniel M Spurr and Barbara Beatty, married Sarah Ann Kirkpatrick (b. abt 1826 IL, d. Dec 1865, Healdsburg, Sonoma, CA). They lived in Bellevue, Jackson, IA, where six of their children were born, then moved to northern California after 1860, and three more children were born there. Joseph Scott Spurr, their 8th child, is my great grandfather. I believe that Sarah Ann Kirkpatrick was the 4th child of James Lane Kirkpatrick and Phereby (or Thereby or Phoebe) Hufner. Can anyone verify her parents and give me her date of birth? Does anyone know of a Spurr genealogy book that might help me? Thank you. Link: http://genforum.genealogy.com/ca/messages/32448.html Link: http://genforum.genealogy.com/ca/ |
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Title: 1850 Federal Census Images for Bellevue, Jackson Co., Iowa Page: Pg 168, Dw: 1246, Fam: 1246 Publication: Taken Nov 1850. |
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Title: 1856 Bellevue, Jackson Co., Iowa census Page: Pg 438-439, Dw: 93, Fam: 1 |
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Title: 1860 Federal Census Images for Bellevue, Jackson Co, Iowa Page: Pg 27, Dw: 183, Fam: 168 |
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Title: 1850 Federal Census Images for Bellevue, Jackson Co., Iowa Page: bef 1849, birth of son, Lish[sic] Publication: Taken Nov 1850. |
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Title: Kirkpatrick-Spurr post per Maggie Page: 1847-1849, prob. Jackson Co., IA Author: Maggie Publication: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.iowa.counties.jackson/2721/mb.ashx Text: Message: 1, Date: Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:50:12 -0000 From: "�Cu�[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>�C/u�D" <�Cu�[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>�C/u�D> Subject: [IAJACKSO] Sarah Kirkpatrick's marriage to Daniel Spurr To: <�Cu�[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>�C/u�D> Message-ID: <�Cu�[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>�C/u�D> Content-Type: text/plain; This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: Familytreemagic Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: �Cu�D<http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.iowa.counties.jackson/2721/mb.ashx>�C/u�D Message Board Post: I am looking for a marriage record in early Jackson county records. Sarah Kirkpatrick lived in the Jackson county area from about 1837 or so and married Daniel F. Spurr. They were married between 1847 - 1849. Also is there any record of parents consent? Thank you in advance for your help. Maggie Link: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.iowa.counties.jackson/2721/mb.ashx |
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Title: Carver, Jones, Spurr, Cummings online genealogy Page: abt 1849 Author: dcar46 Publication: http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/1064886/person/-1992096268?ssrc= |
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Title: Sarah Kirkpatrick post per Treat Page: no data Author: Diane Treat Publication: http://genforum.genealogy.com/ca/messages/32448.html Text: Posted By:�Ctab�DDiane Treat Email:�Ctab�D Subject:�Ctab�DSarah Ann Kirkpatrick Spurr Post Date:�Ctab�DMay 14, 2009 at 20:23:24 Message URL: http://genforum.genealogy.com/ca/messages/32448.html Forum:�Ctab�DCalifornia Genealogy Forum Forum URL:�Ctab�Dhttp://genforum.genealogy.com/ca/ �Ctab�DDaniel Francis Spurr (b. 17 Aug 1822 Fayette county, KY, d. 13 Dec 1902 Mendocino county, CA), son of Daniel M Spurr and Barbara Beatty, married Sarah Ann Kirkpatrick (b. abt 1826 IL, d. Dec 1865, Healdsburg, Sonoma, CA). They lived in Bellevue, Jackson, IA, where six of their children were born, then moved to northern California after 1860, and three more children were born there. Joseph Scott Spurr, their 8th child, is my great grandfather. I believe that Sarah Ann Kirkpatrick was the 4th child of James Lane Kirkpatrick and Phereby (or Thereby or Phoebe) Hufner. Can anyone verify her parents and give me her date of birth? Does anyone know of a Spurr genealogy book that might help me? Thank you. Link: http://genforum.genealogy.com/ca/messages/32448.html Link: http://genforum.genealogy.com/ca/ |
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Title: Spurr-Kirkpatrick post per dcar46 Page: bef 1860 Author: dcar46 Publication: http://boards.ancestry.com.au/surnames.kirkpatrick/1643/mb.ashx Text: Board: Message Boards > Surnames > Kirkpatrick URL: http://boards.ancestry.com.au/surnames.kirkpatrick/1643/mb.ashx Subject: Sarah Ann KIRKPATRICK, b 1826, Illinois; d 1865, Healdsburg, Sonoma, California Author: dcar46 Date: Wednesday, 8 July 2009 Classification: Query Surnames: KIRKPATRICK, LANE, HUFNER, SPURR �Ctab�D I understand that James Lane KIRKPATRICK was born 22 Mar 1802 in Jefferson county, Georgia. His parents were John KIRKPATRICK and Sarah Winifred LANE, both from South Carolina. James married Phereby (or Thereby or Phoebe) HUFNER, 29 Mar 1821, in Bond county, Illinois. They moved to Bellevue, Jackson, Iowa, where James died in 1856. I have seen lists of their nine children, where the fourth child is not named, just called "daughter KIRKPATRICK", born in Illinois in 1826. This is my problem: I believe that my 2nd great grandmother, Sarah Ann KIRKPATRICK, is this daughter. She and her husband, Daniel Francis SPURR, lived in Bellevue, Iowa, until about 1860, when the KIRKPATRICKS also seemed to leave the area. Daniel was a lawyer and judge in Bellevue, and later in northern California. They lived in close proximity to the KIRKPATRICKS in 1850 and 1860. Can anyone help me to link Sarah Ann KIRKPATRICK to James Lane KIRKPATRICK?�Ctab�D Link: http://boards.ancestry.com.au/surnames.kirkpatrick/1643/mb.ashx |
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Title: 1856 Bellevue, Jackson Co., Iowa census Page: bef 1849, birth of son, Lesley |
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Title: 1860 Federal Census Images for Bellevue, Jackson Co, Iowa Page: bef 1849, birth of son, Lslie[sic] |
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