Pioneers of Polk County, Iowa, and reminiscences of early days . in Grant Park. For many years, he was the leading mem-ber of the School Board. His purse was always open to help publicimprovements When the fund was being raised by citizens of thecity to purchase ground for the State Fair, he gave one thousanddollars. Politically, he was raised under the tutelage of the Democraticparty, but he opposed its Free Trade policy, and cast his first votefor Tip]>ecanoe and Tyler, t«o, and remained a Republican, butin local affairs he was independent. In 1847, he evidenced hispatriotism by enlisting
Pioneers of Polk County, Iowa, and reminiscences of early days . in Grant Park. For many years, he was the leading mem-ber of the School Board. His purse was always open to help publicimprovements When the fund was being raised by citizens of thecity to purchase ground for the State Fair, he gave one thousanddollars. Politically, he was raised under the tutelage of the Democraticparty, but he opposed its Free Trade policy, and cast his first votefor Tip]>ecanoe and Tyler, t«o, and remained a Republican, butin local affairs he was independent. In 1847, he evidenced hispatriotism by enlisting in the Fourth Ohio Infantry, for the Mexi-can War, went to Vera Cruz, where he was stricken with YellowFever, and, after partial convalescence, was honorably dischargedfor disability. In the Civil War, he served as wagon master in theFourth Iowa Infantry. Socially, he was genial, courteous, a kind neighbor, popular andinfluential in social affairs of the community. He was a prominentmember of the Odd Fellows fraternity. He died in 1895. October First, GENERAL M. M. CROCKER GENERAL M. M. CROCKER RESPLENDENT with military fame, and oonspicuoua in thecivic pride of Des Moines, stands the name of Marcellus M. Crocker. To detail his military record, brilliant with greatachievements, would fill all the columns of the Sunday Registerand Leader. I can only make desultory reference to it now. Born in Johnson County, Indiana, in 1831, he lived there until1844, when he came to Iowa, with his father, who stopped at Fair-field, and soon after made a claim on Government land two milesnorthwest of Lancaster, in Keokuk Coimty, when Marcellus trans-ferred his activities from school to assisting his father in break-ing up the wild prairie and improving the farm, with all the trialsand experiences usual with the pioneers. In the meantime. Shep-herd Leffler, a prominent Democrat and Representative in Con-gress from the Second District, which comprised the south half ofthe state, became at
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