Table of Contents
Title Page & Preface
Table of Contents
Chapter I, 1855 - 1856
Part 1 -- The
Parson's Vacation || Land Speculation || Getting the Land || Planning
the City
Part 2 -- A Journey West ||
Trials and Labors || Trying to Farm || Building a School-house
Part 3 -- A Thunder Storm
|| New Arrivals || Discouragements || Surveying the Land || Colonists
Scattered || Prairie Fires
Chapter II, 1856 - 1857
Part 1 --
Building Saw-Mills || An Anti-Slavery Recruit
Part 2 -- The Great
Snow-Storm || Mr. Turner's Visit || Wintering at the Mill
Part 3 -- A Queer Accident
|| A Pioneer Cabin || Lo! Spring Approaches || Spring Doings || Laying
Out the Town
Chapter III, 1857
Part 1 --
Re-inforcements || An Attempted Rivalry || Settling the Town || A Maiden
from Boston
Part 2 -- Getting Married
|| New Colonists
Part 3 -- Home Making ||
July 4th, 1857 || Nichols, Jones and Fales || 1857 Farming || Harris and
Stephenson Get Farms || A Blue Streak || The Mill Property
Part 4 -- Religious
Meetings || Early County Roads || Turner and Smith in Nevin || Passing
of the Mill || Digging of Wells || Hotel and Store
Part 5 -- M. J. Hazeltine
|| Richard Sells to Alvin || First Bridge || A Matron from Boston || A
Sudden Death || Thanksgiving, 1857 || New England House Occupied ||
Underground Railroad || Cemetery and College Lots || Kenada Timber
Chapter IV, 1858
Part 1 -- The Fuel
Question || Colony Township Organized || A Surprise Party || Amasa Child
|| Early Births || The Harlows
Part 2 -- The
Chamberlains || Coming of the Jewetts || Mr. Turner's Steamboat || A
Lawsuit || Religious Meetings Resumed || First School in Nevin || Rev.
N. Harris's Visit || White-Mason
Part 3 -- Hoskins Family ||
Nevinville Postoffice || Ten New Comers || Independence Day || A License
to Marry || The Beaths
Part 4 -- Uncle Mack ||
"Sir" Richard || The Congregational Church || The Harris's ||
Carl and Hebron || An Honest Dutchman || First Fair at Quincy
Part 5 -- Mr. Lawrence's
Whale || Farming and Crops in 1858 || First Bricks || Job and Ruth ||
The Party at Atkin's and Pratt's-A Poem || Stray Items
Chapter V, 1859 and Later
Part 1 --
Literary Societies || Mrs. Norman's Letter || Grant and Sawyer || Dr.
Taylor
Part 2 -- The Deacon's Sheep
|| Alexander || Crops in 1859 || Church Conference || The Fair of 1859
|| The Southalls
Part 3 -- Three Whipple
Brothers || The Spragues || Atkins Brothers || Contrabands || The Buell
Family || The John Bixbys
Part 4 -- Austin-Ballou ||
Jewett-Bugbee || Stephenson-Color-line || The Ellis Family || The Great
Tornado || A Bovine Ride
Part 5 -- A Trip to
Grand River || A Mistake in Horses || A Whisky Peddler's Escape || To
Des Moines in Winter
Part 6 -- Militia ||
Passing of the New England House || Old Settlers Association || Nevin
Soldier Boys || Methodist-Brazee Meetings || The Dickinson Revival
Part 7 -- Church Buildings
and Parsonages || Ordinations || Some Ministers || Streets and Landmarks
|| Nevin-Nevinville
Part 8 -- Mrs.
Chamberlain's Poem || Auld Lang Syne-A Poem
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