Pioneers of Polk County, Iowa, and reminiscences of early days . belonged to the crowd; were just having a littlegame for amusement. Thats too thin; come along, said thecop. He marched them down to headquarters, and turned themover to Bondurant, saying he had caught them up back there inthe timber, gambling. Bondurant replied that he would takecare of them, and the cop returned to his duties. The quartettedid not hear the last of it for a long time. Mr. Bondurant was public-spirited and a liberal supporter of allgood works. He gave five hundred dollars to Drake Universitywhen it needed the mon
Pioneers of Polk County, Iowa, and reminiscences of early days . belonged to the crowd; were just having a littlegame for amusement. Thats too thin; come along, said thecop. He marched them down to headquarters, and turned themover to Bondurant, saying he had caught them up back there inthe timber, gambling. Bondurant replied that he would takecare of them, and the cop returned to his duties. The quartettedid not hear the last of it for a long time. Mr. Bondurant was public-spirited and a liberal supporter of allgood works. He gave five hundred dollars to Drake Universitywhen it needed the money, the amount to be derived from therental of fifty acres of land, which he set apart for that was a generous friend of the poor and helpless. He carried outin his daily life the resolve of his early manhood, that his possessionwas but a trust to be used in every worthy entei-prise which wouldadvance the best interests of the community in which he lived, andit can be truly said that Polk Coimty is better for his having Fourteenth, EDWARD ENTWISTLE EDWAUD ENTWISTLE ONE of the most notable of the early settlers of Des Moines—notable in that he represents an epoch, one of the most prom-inent in the industrial history of the world-^is EdwardEntwistle, now quietly living at the corner of Second and DesMoines streets. He has seen the development of steam power fortransportation purposes, from the first locomotive, and the firstrailway, until they have encircled the globe and gridironed its con-tinents. The remarkable feature of it is, that he was in it-at thebeginning, and ran the first locomotive put on a railroad. Bom at Tilseys Banks, Lancashire, England, March Twenty-fourth, 1815, at less than fourteen years old he was apprenticed forseven years to the trade of Mechanical Engineer, in the large worksof George Stephenson, and his son, Robert, at l^ewcastle. In 1828,the Liverpool and Manchester Railway Company began building arailroad across Chat Mos
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