Pioneers of Polk County, Iowa, and reminiscences of early days . to give vent to the overwhelming desire for Beebes vivacity and conviviality was a sure cure for theblues, resulting from the isolation of their every-day life. FatherBird made it a resting-place, and preached in it when making acircuit of the county. In 1860, the county having got tired of the system by which itsaffairs were managed by one man, the County Judge, at the Octo-ber election of that year there was elected a Board of Supervisors,consisting of sixteen members, to represent each township in thecounty. B
Pioneers of Polk County, Iowa, and reminiscences of early days . to give vent to the overwhelming desire for Beebes vivacity and conviviality was a sure cure for theblues, resulting from the isolation of their every-day life. FatherBird made it a resting-place, and preached in it when making acircuit of the county. In 1860, the county having got tired of the system by which itsaffairs were managed by one man, the County Judge, at the Octo-ber election of that year there was elected a Board of Supervisors,consisting of sixteen members, to represent each township in thecounty. Beebe was elected for Madison Township, and for tenyears, during the formative and most critical period of the countyhistory, that body had control of public affairs. In 1868, when the Old Settlers Association was formed, Beebewas the first to sign the compact, and he was elected one of a com-mittee whose duty it was to report the names of old settlers whodeceased or removed from the county, the purpose being to keepa record of them. April Twenty-eighth, DR. DAVID D. SKINNER DAYID D. SKINNER APIOXEER of Iowa, and very early settler of Polk County,was David D. Skinner, or Uncle Dave, as he was famil-iarly called. He was born in Hamilton County, Ohio, in1S24, and when nine years old, came with his parents, in 1833, byilatboat do\vn the Ohio, and up the Mississippi, to Montrose, nearthe mouth of Des Moines River, where his parents settled. Whatis now Iowa then had no legal existence, for when the State of Mis-souri was carved out of the Louisiana Purchase, Uncle Sam seemsto have forgotten what is now Iowa and Minnesota, along the Mis-sissippi, and the Dakotas, and from 1821 to 1834, there was nogovermnent, no courts, and no laws, except such as the settlers whohad come into the territory made among themselves. An incidentillustrating the fact was that of the murder of one George OKeef,by Patrick OConnor, at the Mines of Spain, a lead mine operatednear where Dubuque now is. T
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