| KANSAS COLLECTION BOOKS by F.F. Crevecoeur Among the earliest settlements made near here was that at America City. The 25th of May, 1856, there arrived at that place eight families, who drove through from Iowa with oxen. These families were as follows: Sandford H. Eddy and his wife, Caroline, who were natives of New York, and who had gone to Iowa in 1855 with their children, Theodore I., Eugenia, and Julius. Hiram Dean, his wife and three sons, John, Frank, and Oscar, and a daughter, Margaret. Daniel Arnold, his wife and child, Willie. Daniel Benthusen Benson, his wife and son, George, and daughter, Susan. Hezekiah Scrutchfield, his wife and three daughters, Mary, Alice, and Martha and Mary. Garrett Randall, his wife, Sarah, and two sons, James and Robert. George Randall, son of Garrett, and his wife, who was a daughter of James Armstrong. Harve Randall, his wife and son, Kimball, and daughter, Mary. These all located in or near to America City. We now follow the fortunes of the eight families near as we can learn them: Hiram Dean died near America City about 1876. His wife, who was a midwife and attended the few births that occurred there then, one of which was that of Mary Ann Day, of Vienna, has gone to Missouri. Of their sons, Frank is in Washington, Oscar in Oregon, and John in Missouri. | |
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