CEDAR RAPIDS
The Torch Press
1911
Copyright 1911 by
Luther A. Brewer
THE TORCH PRESS
CEDAR RAPIDS
IOWA
TO THE MEMORY OF OUR
HONORED PIONEERS
[INTRODUCTION]
The history of Linn county is covered by the events of only a few years, if compared with the history of communities east of the Mississippi. The space of one life-time embraces all that has happened here since the first white man looked upon our goodly heritage. True, that life has been prolonged beyond the scriptural three score and ten years. Robert Ellis, who came to this community more than seventy years ago, and who was one of the very early settlers, yet lives in a hale and vigorous age on land he "claimed" at that time.