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Scott County, Iowa
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Schultz, Philip aged 7 years was run over by a beer wagon driven by John Dettman
in Davenport, Iowa on Wednesday and is not expected to recover.
(Rock Island Daily Argus, Thursday 11 January 1877) submitted by: K. Torp- 2007
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Malone, William aged 32 years, son of an Irish farmer, long a resident of Scott
Co., Iowa left there in April, 1876 for New York City
and planned to leave from there to make a visit to his old home in Ireland.
When they landed at Queenstown, Ireland,
he was arrested along with several of his fellow passengers also from Iowa:
Mr. O'Neil of Belle Plaine, Benton Co., Iowa; Wm. O'Donnell of Cedar Co., Iowa;
Wm. Hickey of Boone Co., Iowa; and John Raynard of Sac City, Iowa.
They were confined in the Harnold Cross Prison in Dublin and convicted of
conspiracy to overthrow the government.
After 6 months they were sent to Dartmouth prison in England and there another
fellow prisoner, John Fitzgerald, of Neponset, Illinois died aged 26 years.
He was pardoned on 1 January 1877 and returned to Ireland to stay with relatives
for a time and then return to America.
Malone was 16 years old when he came to this country with his father and is a
Civil War veteran, serving with Company D, 69th New York.
He has now returned to his home in Butler twp, Scott Co. Iowa.
(Rock Island Daily Argus, Monday 26 March 1877) submitted by: K. Torp- 2007
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Bennett, Francis R., an old Rock Island Co., Illinois newspaperman, was born 27 November 1827 near Montreal, Canada. His parents were natives of Brattleboro, Vermont and were married in 1822 and then moved to near Montreal. In 1826 the family returned to Brattleboro and in 1832 they removed to Montrose, Pennsylvania and in May, 1837 to Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa. Frank was then aged 12 years and in 1841 he went to work for the Davenport Gazette. In 1845 he worked here (Rock Island Co., Ill.) for the Upper Mississippian and in the fall of 1847 he bought the Northwest Advertiser. In 1853 he sold the paper and went into farming with his father in the western part of Scott Co., Iowa. In 1857 he moved to Princeton, Iowa and was in merchandizing; in 1859 he moved to Lyons, Iowa and was in merchandizing. His wife died in June, 1861 aged 32 years and in 1862 he went to Colorado but returned in the fall and was married in January 1863. The following spring he took his family to Denver and was in the lumber business there. He returned to Lyons, Iowa in November, 1867 and in 1872 worked for the newspaper there. In 1874 he bought the Delmar Journal and is now running it.
(Rock Island Daily Argus, Monday 5 March 1877) submitted by: K. Torp- 2007
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Curtis, (item from Orion, Henry Co.,
Illinois) Mr. and Mrs. W.H. McWhinney are here on their wedding tour to visit
his parents.
(Rock Island Daily Union, Tuesday 26 June 1877).
(Daily Union of Thursday, June 28th; Mrs. McWhinney is the daughter
of J.F. Curtis, formerly of the Davenport, Iowa Business College and now of
Chicago.
Mr. McWhinney is the nephew of A.M. Guild. The new couple lives in Chicago).
submitted by: K. Torp- 2007
Le Claire iron foundry of Davenport, Iowa was destroyed by fire with the
patterns & c. Loss from twenty to twenty-five thousand dollars;
Insurance four to five thousand.
The Pittsfield Sun.;