Identifier: annalsofiowa09howe (find matches)
Title: Annals of Iowa
Year: 1871 (1870s)
Authors: Howe, Samuel Storrs, 1808-1888 Parvin, Theodore Sutton, 1817-1901 Lloyd, Frederick Huff, Sanford W Aldrich, Charles, 1828-1908 Harlan, Edgar Rubey, 1869-1941 Iowa. Division of Historical Museum and Archives State Historical Society of Iowa Iowa. Historical Dept Iowa. Historical, Memorial, and Art Dept
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Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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acts in tlie lives of such important personn^csin the history of Iowa as her three Territorial Governors,— * Old lowers and raiin arc fAvoritc reports of the Jackdaw.—Sec works onOrnUliology. 472 ANNALS OF IOWA. (.lANUAIlV, LucHS, C)j:mil)crs ruid Clark-—riiid fshail llioii be rcndy to be-gin on tlic ^^tute (rovornors of lov;a. In tlic next issue we Fliall furnish our ))atrons with tlie like-ness and an accompanying sketch of the life of one of lov/acmost devoted liistorians, the Hon. Charles Xcgus, of l^airficld,who has collected and written more of the early history ofIowa than any other 2)erso)i, and we Bhall be gratified to em-bellish the Annals with his portrait, not only on account ofliis good looks, but also because of his good works. The portrait which adorns this number is a faithful likenessof Col. John A. Garrett, of Newton, and that it is worthy aplace in our pages let none deny after reading the sketch ofhis life, so well written by his townsman, Mr. A. K. Campbell.
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Annals of Iowa YoL. IX. 10^YA CITY, APEIL, 1871. l^o. 2. THE EAELY HISTOEY OP IOWA. BY CUARLES NEGUS. (Continued from page 40-i.) About the cominencement of the year 181:3 there was oneof the hardest times in the money market that had ever beenknown in the west. All the Illinois, and a great portion ofthe other western, bank notes had gone out of circulation ;land and everything else had gone down in value to almostnominal prices; corn and oats could be bought at from six toten cents per bushel, pork at a dollar a hundred, and the bestkind of horses the farmers could raise would only bring fromfifty to sixt)^ dollars. Most everybody was in debt, and the sheriff and constable,with a legal process, trying to collect a debt, were frequentvisitors at almost every mans door, and much property wassold on execution, at very reduced prices. To try to alleviate the general linancial distress of the ter-ritory was the principal subject which occupied the attentionof the legislature at that time

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