Pioneers of Polk County, Iowa, and reminiscences of early days . tionalmovement to promote the weal of the community. The home, thechurch, and the school were with him the only sure foundation ofgood government. Religiously, he was a Baptist of the Saint John type. When thefirst church was organized, and the building of a meeting-housewas started on Mulberry Street, where George Dimmitt now sellshardware, he gave many days of manual labor with Elder Nashand W. A. Galbraith, with hammer, saw, plane, axe, and trowel,helping the project along. His home was one of generous hospi-tality, and during
Pioneers of Polk County, Iowa, and reminiscences of early days . tionalmovement to promote the weal of the community. The home, thechurch, and the school were with him the only sure foundation ofgood government. Religiously, he was a Baptist of the Saint John type. When thefirst church was organized, and the building of a meeting-housewas started on Mulberry Street, where George Dimmitt now sellshardware, he gave many days of manual labor with Elder Nashand W. A. Galbraith, with hammer, saw, plane, axe, and trowel,helping the project along. His home was one of generous hospi-tality, and during church conventions of his faith it was a favoriteresort for brethren. He was an active and earnest member of the Old SettlersAssociation. Politically, he was a radical Abolitionist and Whig, and every-body knew it. He was not a politician, and took little or no partin politics, yet, through the good offices and friendship of Kasson,he was several times given a public trust, which he executed withstrict fidelity and credit to himself. May Twenty-seventh, JOHN M. DAVIS JOHN M. DAVIS LIVING over on the East Side, very quietly, on Easy Street,undisturbed by the price of flour, cornmeal, potatoes, theuncertainty of Packingtown products, or the tax collector, ina house which was built on the installment plan, when there wasntlumber enough to build a house complete, can be foimd John , an old-timer, who made his advent to the town with thearchives of the state, when they were removed from Iowa City, in1857, which was an important epoch in the history of the town andcounty. Born in Ohio, John, in 1854, got the Western fever, went downthe Ohio Eiver, up the Wabash, thence by stage coach to Iowa City,where he entered the service of George McCleary, Secretary ofState, as his Deputy. There he remained until the expiration ofMoClearys term, in 1856, and also of his successors, Elijah Sells,in 1863, and Doctor James Wright, in 1867, when he became theDeputy of the Eegister of
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