Pioneers of Polk County, Iowa, and reminiscences of early days . , including Seattle and did the machinery engineering for the glucose works whichG. M. Hippee, J. J. Towne, Charley Weitz, Doctor Eaton, andothers started, at Eighth and Vine, on the West Side. He alsoinvested several hundred dollars in the enterprise. The factoryturned out good glucose, and promised a good market for corn, butthe exhalations from it became so obnoxious to the residents in thatsection, it was closed as a nuisance. A site was then purchased 78 PIONEERS OF POLK COUNTY, IOWA down where the starch works wer
Pioneers of Polk County, Iowa, and reminiscences of early days . , including Seattle and did the machinery engineering for the glucose works whichG. M. Hippee, J. J. Towne, Charley Weitz, Doctor Eaton, andothers started, at Eighth and Vine, on the West Side. He alsoinvested several hundred dollars in the enterprise. The factoryturned out good glucose, and promised a good market for corn, butthe exhalations from it became so obnoxious to the residents in thatsection, it was closed as a nuisance. A site was then purchased 78 PIONEERS OF POLK COUNTY, IOWA down where the starch works were, a four-story brick 160x140erected, and the business resumed on a larger scale, but in 1883went out of business. During the thirty years building mills, or buying them andswapping them for farms, he has acquired a competency sufficientto enable him to take a rest, on Seventh Street, opposite CrockerSchool, without worry as to the crops or the money market. Hisj)rincipal diversion is to swap yams with some old-timer downtownon a street comer. Mav Sixth, JUDGE CHARLES C. NOURSE JUDGE CHARLES C. NOURSE AN early settler who has been prominently identified with thepublic affairs of the state, Polk County and Des Moines, isCharles Clinton Nourse, or Charley, as everyboy in thestate calls him—in fact, he says thats his name. A Marylander by birth, he received his education principallyfrom his father, who for fifty years was a prominent teacher, andin 1850, graduated from the Law Department of TransylvaniaUniversity, at Lexington, Kentucky. The year following, hedecided to come West. Going down the river to Louisville, thenceup the Mississippi, he landed at Burlington, where he was kindlyreceived by the minister of the Methodist Church, of which he isa member. The Supreme Court then being in session there, he wastaken to the hotel where the judges stopped, and introduced tothem, of whom was Jiidge Joseph Williams, well known to old-timers as a man of infinite jest, a great j
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