This district had its great families too:
The Runkles, Schumachers and Dorfeners;
Niemanns, Emmerts, Kellers, Hickeys and True,
Lyndes, Amelunxens, Koenekes, Raemers—
Most, pioneers who in the sixties came,
And helped the prairie’s wild frontier to tame.
And Deer Creek! fairest district of the dell!
If spelled with “a” instead of “e” no seer
Could have objected: here did truly dwell
A hundred pretty girls for ev’ry deer.