. Story of Lee County, Iowa. s later was elected clerk of the Dis-trict Court. In 1859 he was appointed inspector of the penitentiaryat Fort Madison, a position he held for several years. He was aprominent Odd Fellow and when he died members of that ordercame from all parts of the state to attend his funeral. The people of West Point Township have always believed ineducation. Subscription schools were taught there as soon as enoughsettlers had located to make it profitable to a teacher, and in 1839 anacademy was incorporated. Its history will be found in the chapteron Educational Development.
. Story of Lee County, Iowa. s later was elected clerk of the Dis-trict Court. In 1859 he was appointed inspector of the penitentiaryat Fort Madison, a position he held for several years. He was aprominent Odd Fellow and when he died members of that ordercame from all parts of the state to attend his funeral. The people of West Point Township have always believed ineducation. Subscription schools were taught there as soon as enoughsettlers had located to make it profitable to a teacher, and in 1839 anacademy was incorporated. Its history will be found in the chapteron Educational Development. In 1914 there were six school districts,in which seven teachers were employed, and the number of pupilsenumerated was 291. West Point has about five miles of railroad, of the Chicago,Burlington & Quincy System, and there are over thirty-five miles oftelephone lines in the township. In 1913 the value of taxable prop-erty was $371,819, and in 1910 the population was 1,342, whichincludes the incorporated Town of West HON. NELSON C. KOBERTS CHAPTER VIIIFORT MADISON LOCATION AND SURROUNDINGS—THE OLD MILITARY POST—DIFFERENTSTATEMENTS REGARDING ITS ESTABLISHMENT—ITS CORRECT HIS-TORY—ITS DESTRUCTION AND ABANDONMENT—MONUMENT ONTHE SITE—PETER WILLIAMS—THE KNAPPS—EARLY SETTLERS—FIRST TOWN PLAT—THE GOVERNMENT PLAT—TOWN INCORPORATED—BECOMES A CITY IN 1842—LIST OF MAYORS—FIRE DEPARTMENT—WATER WORKS—PUBLIC LIGHTING—STREET RAILWAY—POST-OFFICE—COMMERCIAL CLUB—MISCELLANEOUS FACTS. The City of Fort Madison, one of the seats of justice of LeeCounty, is pleasantly situated on the west bank of the MississippiRiver, about twenty-five miles above the mouth of the Des Moines,on the site of the old fort erected early in the nineteenth century bythe United States, from which the city takes its name. For many years the early history of the old military post wasveiled in uncertainty and various statements have been made as tothe time when and by whom it was e
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