History

“Sac County contains sixteen congressional townships, west of the Des Moines River. It contains 369,640 acres, nearly a1l, of which is desirable land for either grain or stock farms, and the larger part available for either or both combined. The larger part of these lands are railway property and these can be purchased by home-seekers, who will occupy them at once, on the most liberal terms. Many of the private holders are also selling on nearly if not quite as easy terms as the railway land company. And as to the grasshopper an tornado bugbears, it is perfectly safe to …

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The general history of Sac County can probably be presented in no better shape than as we give it in the following extract from a well written article, published in the Sac Sun, of Sac City, December 24th, 1880: “The immense emigration from the Eastern and East Central States which has for the past two or three years rapidly settled up the lands of Kansas and Nebraska, has during the past two years been diverted to a great extent to the more certainly productive agricultural lands of Northwestern Iowa. Many more of these home seekers might have been induced to …

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“The first settlement was made by Otho Williams, who came from Michigan in the autumn of 1854, with his family, and took up a claim in the timber near Grant City, in the southeastern part of the county. He and his family were the first white inhabitants of Sac county, but during the two succeeding years quite a number of settlers made their homes either in the same neighborhood or in the vicinity of Sac City, and Otho Williams, at the end of about two years, complained that ‘folds are gittin’ to thick ’round yer,’ and he and his family …

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“This sketch is intended principally as a pen-picture of Sac County as it now is, and will include a short outline of its history and a few incidents of the life of the early settlers. “The early settlers of Sac, though they had the advantage of being able to try fruit raising under the protection of a considerable belt of timber, had small faith in the county as adapted to the growth of fruits. Consequently it was not until some ten or twelve years after the settlement of the county began that any attention was given to this important branch …

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On June 1, 1877, the following list of pioneers was made out by the secretary of the “Old Settlers’ Association”, the same showing the name, date of arrival in Sac county and the age of the person, at the time they signed this register in 1877: William Montgomery, May 15, 1855, aged fifty-seven years. D. Carr Early, May 5. 1836, aged forty-seven years. Mrs. Early, May 5, 1856. Peter Basler, February 1, 1856, sixty- four years. Mrs. Mary Basler, February 1, 1856, sixty-three years. Isabella Miller, September 7, 1854, fifty-seven years. William Cory, September 7, 1854, thirty-six years. Enoch Ross, …

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