Pioneers of Polk County, Iowa, and reminiscences of early days . ould order the presses stopped to make thecorrection, but, instead, he retorted: I dont care a d—n whatthe d—n fools over at the State House require. Ill have my poli-cies printed the way I want them. The job was finished, but afew days after, he ordered another lot printed, with the requiredwords in place, but he never changed his opinion resijecting theLegislature. Politically, he was a Democrat, of the ultra variety, but abjuredpolitics entirely. He was not built for a politician, and wouldhave failed had he attempted to play
Pioneers of Polk County, Iowa, and reminiscences of early days . ould order the presses stopped to make thecorrection, but, instead, he retorted: I dont care a d—n whatthe d—n fools over at the State House require. Ill have my poli-cies printed the way I want them. The job was finished, but afew days after, he ordered another lot printed, with the requiredwords in place, but he never changed his opinion resijecting theLegislature. Politically, he was a Democrat, of the ultra variety, but abjuredpolitics entirely. He was not built for a politician, and wouldhave failed had he attempted to play the game. Socially, he was a person of high ideals. Brusque and blunt ashe was, his heart pulsated with tenderness and sympathy for thosein want or suffering, and his purse was always open to such forrelief. He was not a good mixer, but his friends were those whoknew him as he was, a man of probity, honesty of purpose; andthey never faltered in their attachments. He was not a memberof any clubs or fraternal organizations. He died in 1891. June Ninth, COLONEL GEORGE L, GODFREY COLONEL GEORGE L. GODFREY AN old settler who has been largely identified with publicaffairs of the city, county and state is Colonel George , a Green Mountain State boy, born at Hardwick,Vermont, November Fourth, 1838. He passed his boyhood days on a farm in that rock-ribbed sec-tion, attending the common schools, and as he advanced in yearsattended Barre Academy. In Winter, he taught school in thecountry, and in Summer worked on a farm. In 1855, his brother gave him money to pay his expenses toDubuque, where he taught a district school during the Winter,and in the Spring of 185G, he came to Des Moines, and soon afterwent to Sioux City. The United States Land Office had justopened there, and the town was crowded with land-seekers. Hegot on the warm side of the Chief Clerk of the Land Office, whogave him some pointers. He traveled over the country to get thelay of the land, and mapped it
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