Pioneers of Polk County, Iowa, and reminiscences of early days . destal of themagnificent State Soldiers Monument, near the Capitol, a splendidequestrian statue of him is one of the group of four. The CountySupervisors named a township in his honor. In 1870, the Legisla-ture carved a county from Kossuth County, and gave it his name,but local dissensions caused the matter to get into the courts, andthe Supreme Court held the law was invalid because the countydid not have an area of four hundred and thirty-two square miles—it wasnt big enough. There is also Crocker Post of the GrandArmy of the R
Pioneers of Polk County, Iowa, and reminiscences of early days . destal of themagnificent State Soldiers Monument, near the Capitol, a splendidequestrian statue of him is one of the group of four. The CountySupervisors named a township in his honor. In 1870, the Legisla-ture carved a county from Kossuth County, and gave it his name,but local dissensions caused the matter to get into the courts, andthe Supreme Court held the law was invalid because the countydid not have an area of four hundred and thirty-two square miles—it wasnt big enough. There is also Crocker Post of the GrandArmy of the Republic, and Crocker Brigade, composed of veteransof his old brigade, which holds a reunion every two years. Several years after his monument was erected. Judge Casady,Jeff. S. Polk, Judge Wright, Barlow Granger, George Whittaker,Jesse W. Cheek, Captain Ed. L. Marsh, Robert S. Finkbine, HoytSherman, B. F. Gue, and Charley Aldrich had cut on it the fol-lowing words: General Crocker was fit to command an independent 8. Grant. August Twenty-sixth, GENERAL CYRUS BUSSEY GENERAL CYRUS BUSSEY BREVET Major General Cyrus Bussey is one of the two liv-ing Generals Iowa had in the Civil War, Major GeneralDodge being the other. As he was an active politician, aradical Democrat, living in a hotbed of Copperheads, when thewar broke out, I visited him a few days ago to get a little of theunwritten history of his evolution from a Democrat—for at thattime every Democrat in the North was considered a Southern sym-pathizer—to a supporter of the blood-thirsty usurper, Lincoln,as Henry Clay Dean used to call him. Bom in Trumbull County, Ohio, in 1833, when four years old,Cyrus went with his father, a Methodist minister, to Indiana, andat fourteen entered a dry goods store at Dupont, Indiana, as clerk,and, mastering the business, at sixteen began on his own account,at which he was quite successful. In the meantime, he fortifiedhimself for the activities of business life by a rigi
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