Pioneers of Polk County, Iowa, and reminiscences of early days . ors, 190 PIONEERS OF POLK COUNTY, IOWA and three wide-bottomed chairs were always reserved for stories were historic, much of which is hidden in the files ofthe Register, over at the State Historical Building, as effectuallylost as a needle in a haystack. Pity tis, tis true. Old Churu-busco often promised he would put in writing his life experiences;so did Baker and Mitchell, but they procrastinated imtil too late. On his decease, January, 1897, his funeral was a military one,attended by Company H, Iowa National Guard;
Pioneers of Polk County, Iowa, and reminiscences of early days . ors, 190 PIONEERS OF POLK COUNTY, IOWA and three wide-bottomed chairs were always reserved for stories were historic, much of which is hidden in the files ofthe Register, over at the State Historical Building, as effectuallylost as a needle in a haystack. Pity tis, tis true. Old Churu-busco often promised he would put in writing his life experiences;so did Baker and Mitchell, but they procrastinated imtil too late. On his decease, January, 1897, his funeral was a military one,attended by Company H, Iowa National Guard; Fort Des MoinesLodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows; Old Settlers Associa-tion, Tippecanoes, Grand Army of the Republic, and a large con-course of citizens. Ministers of nearly all the churches were pres-ent and gave tribute to his virtues, patriotism, and good citizen-ship. On his casket, when lowered into the earth, was placed byJudge Given, a comrade at Chunibusco, a piece of the flag whichwas carried through the Mexican War. October Twenty-first, MARTIN L. BURKE MARTIN L. BITEKE AMONG the old-timers, none are better conversationalists ormore large supplied with reminiscences than the old stagedrivers, for they went through the country with their eyesand ears open, and rubbed up against all sorts of people. I fell in with one of them a few days ago, Martin LambertBurke, a full-blooded Hibernian, bom on the Auld Sod, whoheld the reins over some of Colonel Hookers nags across the prai-ries and wild wastes between Des Moines and Fort Dodge, whenthe latter was in its swaddling clothes. Born in Ireland, August Tenth, 1830, he came to America whenseventeen years old, and stopped at Columbus, Ohio, the headquar-ters of the Western Stage Company, operating lines in Ohio andIndiana, westward on the trail of emigration, slowly retreatingwhen overtaken by the iron horse. On reaching Indianapolis, in1854, the company decided to take the field in Iowa. They pur-chased all the
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