Spec. Coll. 977 I 771 r. F928 v.19 n.1 11111m111nm~iii~iiil11111 t1 e r 35226 °Cllronicle Vol19,No. 1 Q uarterly of the Pottawa ttamie County (IA) Gen ealogical Soci ety Jan - March 2013 POTIAWATIAMIE COUNTY Ron Chamberlain Featured Speaker GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY at February Pot-Luck Dinner PO Box 394, Co. Bluffs. Iowa. 51502 Ron Chamberlain, Committee Chairman Phone 712-325-9368 WESTERN IOWA PIONEER of the Western Iowa Pioneer Cemetery CEMETERY [email protected] ASSOCIATION Association, gave society members an intro­ duction to their association at the PCGS http://WWW.rootsweb.ancestry.com/-iapcgs/ February 12, 2013 potluck dinner. Mark Franz webmaster Mr. Chamberlain said the WIPCA was Bob Anderson - newsletter editor organized in the summer of 2010 to work toward preserving cemeteries in Shelby and 2013 BOARD OF DIRECTORS Harrison counties. Its goal is to "develop Vern Snipes. President into an organization that can assist in work­ ing towards an equal level of care for all Richard Beck. Past President memorials to our ancestors no matter where Joyce George, Vice President they lay at eternal rest." Barb Christie. Corresponding Sec. The first cemetery they worked in was Joan Weis. Recording Sec. Galland's Grove-RLDS Holcomb Cemetery. Sharon Snipes, Treasurer Galland' s Grove, the first settlement in this area, was settled by Abraham Galland in 1848. It was later populated by Latter Day Saints and by 1854, the Directors: population reached 174. Omaha and Pottawattamie Indians passed through Mary Lou Burke this area at the time on hunting expeditions. Marilyn Erwin According to their records there should be 173 burials here, but they could Roland Lynch only account for 158 burials, which means there are 15 burials that are miss­ ing. They did find some headstones that had fallen over and were buried. Research: They will be returning to look for the additional stones and repair any that Mary Lou Burke, Barb Christie. Marilyn Erwin. need repair. Membership in the association is $10.00 I single, $15.00 I family, Doloris Mauer. Joan Weis. $25.00 I business or organization, and $100.00 I lifetime. For more infor­ mation, contact Ron Chamberlain at (712) 489-2736. FRONTIER HERITAGE LIBRARY 622 South 4th St, Co. Bluffs. Iowa Two Questions for Members ? ? ?#1 - A question has arisen in regards to our membership list. Some mem­ Meetings are held at 7:00 p.m. on the second bers want a copy of our membership list with phone numbers, addresses and Tuesday of each Quarter beginning in February. email addresses. Some just want a list of members with their phone numbers. Membership is $20.00 per year for individuals Please let us know your thoughts at [email protected]. No decision and $25.00 for families. Membership includes will be made until the next board meeting. If we do not hear from you we will four quarterly publications of the Frontier presume your vote is "no." Chronicle newsletter. ?#2 - If you would like to receive the newsletter onlv by email, please let me Ancestor Certificates are available for ancestors know at [email protected] It would be sent to you as a .pdf fi le which can who lived in Pottawattamie County in 1870 or be opened easily with Adobe Reader, a free program from adobe.com. There earlier; 1885 or earlier. and 1905 or earlier. would be no reduction of dues with this method, but it would help to reduce Contact the Society for applications. the society's paper and mailing costs. This may need board approval. The Frontier Chronicle 1 Vol. 19, No. 1 Jan - March 2013 ,, CANNON BOOMED TO HERALD ARRIVAL OF FIRST Tales, Tidbits & Topics CHICAGO PASSENGER TRAIN ON NORTH WESTERN By Bob Anderson, Editor Council Bluffs Nonpareil July 26, 1936 [email protected] Cannon boomed throughout the city. The lions, mergers, purchases and unions of noise struck the hills and reverberated up railroads under various corporate names and .. Do YOU RESEARCH your family and down the valley, filling the town with a over a long series of years. member's spouse's family? Or your tenseness it never before had known. By the date of its charter the Galena and family's neighbors? It's amazing how many brothers married sisters. Here in The day was Friday, Feb. 8, 1867. It was Chicago Union railroad is the parent "germ" the Midwest, many of our ancestors late in the afternoon. Ox teams filled the from whence the great corporation claims were farmers and, in my case, I've streets despite the winter weather. Bunting descent. found a fellow marrying a neighbor girl. hung from store fronts. Those who had flags, In the spring of 1867, following completion And then, lo and behold, his brother marries the girl's sister. They probably staffed them. ltwas a gala occasion. The of the line to Council Bluffs, work was started didn't get to town that often to meet mayor headed the procession as it walked by the Cedar Rapids and Missouri River rail· "city" girls. In one family I found three down the street and at 4:20 p. m. it hap­ road connecting Missouri Valley Junction brothers marrying three sisters! pened. with California Junction. Later the Sioux City ··SPEAKING OF NEIGHBORS, be Coming down the track, its locomotive and Pacific railroad started building from sure to check the various plat books belching smoke, the North Western railroad California Junction to Sioux City and the line now on line. If you go to http://www.historicmapworks.com/Sear brought the first through passenger train into was completed to Sioux City in February, ch/city. php ?query=Pottawattamie&State the city from Chicago. 1868. =IA&x=O&y=O you 'll find many for The Nonpareil of that date reports it thus: The line was also started toward Fremont, Pottawattamie County for various years. "The arrival of the first regular passenger Neb. In summer month trains were ferried It's a good way to see your family's neighbors, plus many of your extended train was marked by a joyous celebration. across the Missouri river. A temporary bridge family names. Just remember, the plat Cannon were fired and a long procession of was constructed over the ice for winter cross­ books are showing the owners, not nec­ wagons, artillery and citizens marched to the ing. essarily who lived there. station to greet the train. This line is now operated in conjunction Another resource for plat books is The University of Iowa Libraries - Iowa "Mayor Frank Street and other prominent with the North Western. The stock of the Digital Librarx at citizens addressed the assembly between Cedar Rapids railroads was purchased by http:/ /digital. lib. uiowa. edu/cdm/search/c selections by the band and the salutes of the the North Western in 1884 and the Cedar ollection/atlases cannon. Telegrams were sent to the mayors Rapids company had previously acquired the ··BE CAREFUL WHEN LOOKING at of Chicago and other eastern cities and many control of the Sioux City railroad. census records. The other day I took telegrams of congratulations were received." Minutes of the North Western railroad another look at the 1900 Census for Washington Twp., Cass Co., Iowa, and Thus was the east joined with the west, for reveal that in its eighth fiscal year-June 1, saw something I hadn't noticed before. the North Western's passenger train was the 1866, to May 31, 1867-stockholders were The entry for Julius and Rosa (Detmers) first to join the Union Pacific railroad-a con­ advised of the construction of all of the rail­ KNOP shows Julius and his wife, chil­ nection which to this day still exists between road lines along the Missouri river which it dren and his mother-in-law. But under the last entry is Ida Caulitz and shows the two lines. "hoped would prove valuable feeders to the her as Julius' cousin. When I saw this The track reached Council Bluffs on Jan . road." before I didn't realize Ida was living 17, 1867. The passenger train arrived some The Sioux City road was now built from the with the Knops. It looked like the begin­ twenty days later. east bank of the Missouri river near "St. ning of the next entry and I ignored it. I've since researched the Caulitz family The first through train from Chicago on the John's Station, Iowa." This station is now to find it was actually Collatz and have Rock Island did not reach Council Bluffs until known as Missouri Valley. added a whole new line to my data. 5:45 p. m. on June 5, 1869, while the first It was expected to bring to the North West­ ··I WISH MORE OF MY IOWA through train on the Burlington arrived here ern road a large trade from "Dacotah and the ancestors had lived past 1925 . The 1925 on Jan . 18, 1870 and this train came via upper Missouri river" as well as from "Fort Iowa Census is such a great help in find­ Kansas City. Benton and the Montana region," as Sioux ing parents, as the second page of each City was to be "the steamboat point of depar­ record shows the parents of each person Railroad Is 100 Years Old. tures" for these far-off regions. enumerated. There are other clues here, The North Western railroad, also observ­ too; if the parent is still living, it shows Shortly after the North Western road ing its centennial this year received in July, their age at 1925. [[that's blank, it reached Council Bluffs, a car ferry was 1864, additional grants of land from congress could mean they died before 1925, placed in service across the Missouri river so although the person being enumerated and was authorized to build its line from Ce­ that the construction materials for the Union might not have known or remembered dar Rapids to Council Bluffs.