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Identifier: annalsofiowa09howe_0 (find matches)
Title: Annals of Iowa
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Howe, Samuel Storrs, 1808-1888 Parvin, Theodore Sutton, 1817-1901 Lloyd, Frederick Huff, Sanford W Aldrich, Charles, 1828-1908 Harlan, Edgar Rubey, 1869-1941 Iowa. Division of Historical Museum and Archives State Historical Society of Iowa Iowa. Historical Dept Iowa. Historical, Memorial, and Art Dept
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Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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tation as an effective campaigner so much that he was invitedto canvass a part of Indiana for Clay, which he did. It isobvious that Mr. Grimes referred to him as a celebrity whosepresence at the mass meeting on July 13th would constitutea decided attraction which should induce a large attendance. It is not certain whether or not either of the Illinoiansspoke in Burlington as expected. Miss D. N. Sabin, Librarianof the Free Public Library of Burlington, informs the writerthat the files of The Hawk-Eye and of the loiva Territorial Ga-zette and Advertiser are incomplete or missing for July, 1844.In neither paper, either preceding or succeeding the massmeeting, is there any mention of either one being expected orhaving appeared in Burlington. The writer knows of notradition that Abraham Lincoln appeared in Burlington priorto October 9, 1858, at which time he followed his great op-ponent, Stephen A. Douglas, into that city in the intervalbetween the debate at Galesburg and Quincy. F. I. H.
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EDITOlilAf. DKPAliTMENT 237 NOTABLE DEATHS Isaac Brandt was born near Lancaster, Fairfield county, Ohio,April 7, 1827; he died in Des Moines, Iowa, September 12, l!i09.Ho was the twelfth child of David and Martha (Hamilton) Brandt,who had removed from Cumberland county, Pa., to their Ohio homein 1814. He received the meager instruction of the common schoolof that time. At sixteen he was bound out to learn the shoemakerstrade. For two years he received but his board and one week duringharvest and one day in December for butchering, as his own time.Up to the age of twenty-one all of his earnings went to his father,and on the day he arrived at his majority he opened a shoe shopof his own. Upon his marriage to Miss Harriet Wisely, November1, 1849, he determined to remove to the west, arriving at Auburn,DeKalb county, Indiana, in May, 1850. He followed his trade until1854, when he was elected sheriff of DeKalb county, in which officehe served until a visit to Iowa in January, 1856. He trav

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