BOWMAN HALL, CORNELL COLLEGE
- 1855
- January 3, John O. White to Mary A. Metkeff, by Levi H. Mason, J. P.
- January 3, Enoch Irish to Rhoda J. Dodd, by Rev. J. S. Fullerton.
- January 4, David Stambaugh to Sophia Boyce, by Thomas G. Lockhart, J. P.
- Jan. 9, Ladurnia Larrabee to Amanda S. Renfrew, by Rev. Williston Jones.
- January 24, Greenberry Daniels to Susan Doty, by Rev. Elias Skinner.
- January 25, Jonathan Simpson to Isabella McCaughey, by Rev. Daniel Runkle.
- January 27, Wm. Croghan to Cornelia Ellis, by Wm. P. Gardner, J. P.
- January 28, Thomas Skales to Lucy Serton, by Rev. Rufus Ricker.
- January 31, Henry Ogan to Charlotte Cress, by Thomas Taylor, J. P.
- February 19, Jas. Richardson to Elmira Blanchard, by J. M. Berry, co. judge.
- March 1, Wm. Wilson to Jane Thompson, by Rev. Daniel Runkle.
- March 9, Jacob Cress to Lucy Ann Porter, by Thomas Taylor, J. P.
- —— Wm. Winsor to Rachel Leatherman, by John Plummer, J. P.
- —— George Justin to Sarah Chandler, by John Plummer, J. P.
- —— A. I. Allen to Ann Eliza Kaufman, by Rev. J. T. Tate.
- —— James Biggs to Margaret Mitchell, by Rev. Rufus Ricker.
- —— Byron Rice to Hannah C. Colder, by Rev. C. C. Townsend.
[CHAPTER XVIII]
Historic Roads and Other Monuments
In the early days it was essential to establish means of communication between points. Where there were no navigable rivers the legislatures, and even congress, passed certain acts establishing roads. The Territorial legislature which met in Burlington in 1838 and 1839 among many other road laws approved the following passed January 25, 1839:
"That Isaac [Israel] Mitchell, of Linn county, Iowa, John G. Fay, of Cedar county, and Jonathan Pettibone, of Muscatine county, be and are hereby appointed commissioners to lay out a road commencing at Bloomington, Muscatine county, thence to Rochester and Cedar county and thence to the county seat of Linn county. That said commissioners, or a majority of them, shall meet at Burlington on the first Monday of May next to discharge their duties."—Section 3, p. 461, Laws of Iowa.