Pioneers of Polk County, Iowa, and reminiscences of early days . l. He usesvery mild swear words sometimes, for emphasis, in conversation. And he has fads. He delights in gathering facts and incidentswhich make history, always accessible, and valuable to newspaperscorpions. He has sample copies of every national, state and countyticket of political parties from 1858 to date; the vote of eachcoimty and town election in Polk County from 1858 to date; therules and regulations of each Legislature, with the name and post-office addi-ess of each member, from 1858 to date. He formerlyhad three sample
Pioneers of Polk County, Iowa, and reminiscences of early days . l. He usesvery mild swear words sometimes, for emphasis, in conversation. And he has fads. He delights in gathering facts and incidentswhich make history, always accessible, and valuable to newspaperscorpions. He has sample copies of every national, state and countyticket of political parties from 1858 to date; the vote of eachcoimty and town election in Polk County from 1858 to date; therules and regulations of each Legislature, with the name and post-office addi-ess of each member, from 1858 to date. He formerlyhad three sample tickets that his father cast for William HenryHarrison for President, in 1840, but he gave one to Benjamin 42 PIOIiEEES OF POLK COUNTY, IOWA Harrison when he was making his noted Presidential tour of thecountry, and his car was making a stop at the depot in Des also has the record of the height and weight of his six kids,taken on their birthdays, the girls from seven years to eighteen, theboys from seven to twenty-one Twenty-sixth, CURTIS LAME CUUTIS LAMB A FEW days ago, I visited Curtis Lamb, a pioneer of Iowa,who, with his wife, was spending a few weeks with theirdaughter, Mrs. T. L. Blank, on Jefferson Street. I foundhim, eighty-seven j^ears of age, active, hale and hearty, social, andprolific with incidents of pioneer days. A native of Posey County, Indiana, in 1827, when nine yearsold, with his parents, he went to the lead mines near Mineral Point,Wisconsin. The trip was made down the Ohio and iip the Missis-sippi on a flat-boat, so crowded with household goods and live-stockof immigrants as to make traveling disagreeable and going up the Mississijipi, the boat became disabled and waslaid up for repairs two weeks. The passengers were landed onwhat is now the Iowa side of the river, glad to escape their over-crowded quarters, so he may be rightfully cited as a pioneer of thestate. He resided in Wisconsin until 1850, when, wi
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