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Answer.—The Territorial Governors of Iowa were:
| Robert Lucas | 1838-41 |
| John Chambers | 1841-46 |
| James Clark | 1846-46 |
Iowa was admitted into the Union as a State Dec. 28, 1846, since when its Governors have been:
| Ansel Briggs | 1846-50 |
| Stephen Hempstead | 1850-54 |
| James W. Grimes | 1854-58 |
| Ralph P. Lowe | 1858-60 |
| Samuel J. Kirkwood | 1860-64 |
| William M. Stone | 1864-68 |
| Samuel M. Merrill | 1868-72 |
| Cyrus C. Carpenter | 1872-76 |
| Samuel J. Kirkwood | 1876-78 |
| John H. Gear | 1878-82 |
| Buren R. Sherman | 1882- |
The above does not give the names of the Governors of Missouri, Michigan, and Wisconsin Territories at the dates when what is now Iowa was attached to those Territories. After Missouri became a State, in 1821, Iowa was left without any civil government. From 1834 to 1836 it was attached to Michigan Territory, then embracing Wisconsin, Stevens T. Mason, Governor. In 1836 Wisconsin Territory was organized, including Iowa, and the Wisconsin Territorial Legislature was actually in session at Burlington, Iowa, when news came from Washington that Iowa had been constituted a separate Territory. Of course there was nothing left for the “Badgers” but to pack their carpet bags and decamp for their own Territory, which they did instanter. Henry Dodge was Governor of Wisconsin while Iowa was joined to it.
STEEL AND STEEL RAILS.
Marion, Ind.
Please explain how steel rails are made.