Pioneers of Polk County, Iowa, and reminiscences of early days . highest, the duties of which hemost faithfully executed six days in the week, and on the seventhpreached the Gospel according to the Campbellite, or Christian,Church, of which he was an exemplary minister. The log cabin in which he resided many years, and in whichthe United States Government Surveyors made their home whenrunning the lines for civil townships, long ago was supplanted by afine, commodious residence, which, with his broad, productiveacres, splendid orchard of fifteen acres, and fine vineyard, formedthe environments
Pioneers of Polk County, Iowa, and reminiscences of early days . highest, the duties of which hemost faithfully executed six days in the week, and on the seventhpreached the Gospel according to the Campbellite, or Christian,Church, of which he was an exemplary minister. The log cabin in which he resided many years, and in whichthe United States Government Surveyors made their home whenrunning the lines for civil townships, long ago was supplanted by afine, commodious residence, which, with his broad, productiveacres, splendid orchard of fifteen acres, and fine vineyard, formedthe environments of a home gratifying to the taste of the most fas-tidious, and there he is passing the evening of his life, in content-ment and repose, with the consciousness of duty well done, and theesteem of all who know him. Politically, he is a Republican. He cast his first vote for Presi-dent for Lincoln. In local afFairs, the prevailing sentiment in hisfavor is so nearly unanimous, his consent to take a public office isall that is necessary. April Twenty-second, GUY K. AYERS GUY K. AYRES THE only living resident of Des Moines who was here whenthe Dragoons and Infantry comprising the garrison of FortDes Moines were here, and saw thera drilling nearly everyday, is Guy K. Ayres, a pioneer from circumstances over which hehad no control. Bom in Ohio, when twelve years old his father emigrated toIowa, in 1843, going down the Ohio River to Saint Lonis, thenceup the Mississippi to Keokuk, thence by wagon to Fairfield, wherehe stopped for a time, thence to Ottumwa, until the early Fall of1845, when, loading his family and household goods into a wagon,hauled them with oxen to Fort Des Moines, landing on the eastbank of Des Moines River, a desolate and uninviting place, forthere were but two dwelling-places between the river and the build-ings of the Indian Agency, about two miles down the river, onetliat of W. H. Meacham, which stood on the bank of the river, nearGrand Avenue, and that of
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