Kossuth County Iowa Historicl Info Official Matters Registery of Deeds On consulting the records in the office of the county recorder, it is found that the first deed upon record is that of the dedication of the town plat of Irvington, and bears date of Sept, 19, 1856, and is signed by George Smith, Lyman L. Treat, and Kendall Young. The deed is acknowledged before L. H. Smith, a notary public, in and for Kossuth County, and by order of Asa C. Call, county judge, was filed for record on the 27th day of September 1856, at 9 o'clock a.m., by Chauncey Taylor, deputy recorder. There are now in use some twenty five books of deed records, nineteen of real estate, and six of town lots. The first mortgage on record bears date of Aug. 27, 1855, and was given by the Des Moines Navigation & Railroad Company, to secure the payment of bonds of that corporation. The first mortgage, however, given by a resident and citizen of Kossuth County was one signed by Asa C. Call, the same date, and in favor of Morrison & Drakes, of Sturgis, Mich., and was on certain material and machinery for a sawmill purchased by the judge of that firm. The consideration was $750, and was satisfied at the maturity of the notes. There are now eleven books of mortgages of real estate in use by the recorder, running from A to N, which latter letter designates the volume in use at present. The chattel mortgages are recorded in some twelve books, in addition to this. A list is herewith given of the various town plats that have been recorded from time to time in the books of the county, with the date of the filing of each, and names of original proprietors: Irvington, filed for record, Sept. 27, 1856, by George Smith, L. L. Treat and Kendall Young. Algona, filed Dec. 2, 1856, by Asa C. Call. Ashnelot, filed July 30, 1858, by George Brizee. Cresco, filed September, 1858, by Henry Kellogg. Call's addition to the town of Algona, filed Sept. 11, 1871, by Asa C. and Ambrose A. Call, Henry and Anthony H. Durant, and John Heckart. Wesley, filed Oct. 10, 1873, by J. H. Merrill, of Clayton County. Whittemore, filed April 12, 1879, by W. H. Ingham and L. H. Smith. Whitman, filed Feb. 1, 1881, by Western Town Lot Company, owners. Luverne, filed March 23, 1881, by G. W. Hanna and B. B. Bliss, original proprietors. Burt, filed Sept. 19, 1881, by A. A. Call, D. A. Buell and the Western Town Lot Company. Bancroft, filed Sept. 3, 1881, by A. A Call and Western Town Lot Company. Irvington Station, filed Sept. 24, 1881, by Western Town Lot Company. Ingham's addition to Algona, filed Nov. 22, 1881, by W. H. Ingham. Call & Smarts addition to same, filed by A. C. Call, S. L. Witter and J. J. Smart, Aug. 4, 1882. Western Town Lot Company's addition to Bancroft, filed for record by that corporation Oct. 5, 1882. Call's third addition to Algona, filed Nov. 1, 1883, by Asa C. Call. Full details of each of these appear in their proper places in this volume. The whole number of record books in this office at the present is seventy-nine. [History of Kossuth County, Iowa, Chapter IV, 1884, Transcribed by Charlotte Slater] Copyright © Genealogy Trails All data on this website is Copyright by Genealogy Trails with full rights reserved for original submitters.