Pioneers of Polk County, Iowa, and reminiscences of early days . reme eastern limit of the land grant made by theGovernment to the River Improvement and !Navigation Company,who, deeming it a good thing, claimed it, dispossessed him, andturned him out in his old age to begin over again, with no recoursefrom the Government for the bh;nders of its own agents, who hadtaken his money and given him a pretended title. And thereinlies a general misunderstanding respecting a Goverament certifi-cate for land. It conveys no absolute title. It is simply a certifi-cate that a certain amount of money has be
Pioneers of Polk County, Iowa, and reminiscences of early days . reme eastern limit of the land grant made by theGovernment to the River Improvement and !Navigation Company,who, deeming it a good thing, claimed it, dispossessed him, andturned him out in his old age to begin over again, with no recoursefrom the Government for the bh;nders of its own agents, who hadtaken his money and given him a pretended title. And thereinlies a general misunderstanding respecting a Goverament certifi-cate for land. It conveys no absolute title. It is simply a certifi-cate that a certain amount of money has been paid for a certaintract of land, named therein. It was not uncommon that two per-sons held a patent for the same tract, thus involving a lot of trou-ble, delay, and often litigation, to get the matter settled. In theBurke case, the State of Iowa was most shamefully derelict in itsdealings with the River Improvement Company, by which not onlywere settlers Iobbed of their homes, but it-self most outrageouslyswindled. April Twenty-eighth, 1907. Vol. TI—(23).. WILLIAM H. LEHMAN WILLIAM H. LEHMAN SOME of the pioneers of Polk Coimty pulled up stakes, desertedtheir Eastern homes, kindred and friends, and plodded theirway to this wild and desolate country for pecuniary came from the force of circumstances; they could not preventit. Such was the case with W. H. Lehman, or Will., as everybodyknows him best. Born in 1842, in Lancaster, Ohio, from whence came the pio-neer Shermans, Jim, Hoyt and Lamp., also their brothers, Johnand Tecumseh, James G. Blaine, the pugilist Jeffries, and the airsailor Knabenshue, he came to Fort Des Moines early in 1848,with his father, who was attracted hither by the glorious accountssent back East by the Shermans of the prospects and possibilitieshere in the passing of time. Packing his family and household goods in wagons, the trip,reijuiring nearly four weeks, was made without mishap. The pop-ulation of the town consisted of about one hun
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