The first settler on the town site was Colonel John Holland, who came from
Virginia to Linn County in the early spring of the year 1834, and located his
claim on the section whereon the capital of the county now stands. Up to 1847,
however, ten years after the establishment of the seat of justice, the following
persons had either been residents of the place or property owners therein: Charles F. Gibbs Beverly B. Estes Mathew Dale John Shepherd Alexander Ogan James Pendleton Joseph Auberry Lyman Stearnesq James Carson Robert W. Holland Marshall Harrison James C. Connelly Elkanah Bounds Samuel D. Sandusky Wesley Haliburton Elizabeth Flournay David P. Woodruff William Saunders William B. Woodruff Henry T. Grill B. Philbert Kenneth A. Newton William Bowyer John Walkup Beverly Nece William R. Smith Martha A. Doisseau Hezekiah E. Sutton John J. Flood George W. Smith M. H. Williams Jacob E. Quick William Harrison Henry T. Drown James Reid Henry Wilkinson William M. Long William Murrain, A. D. Rawlins, Benjamin Russell, R. W. Foster, Irwin Ogan, Samuel Iles, John McClintock, Dolding R. Ashbrook, Jackson Flourney, Susan Lane, John Phillips, Elijah Kemper, William Clarkson, Ennis Reid, H. H. Gibson, H. E. Hurlbut, John T. Stockard, John B. Relph, Benjamin Prewitt, Edward Hoyle, R. J. Menifee, T. T. Easley, John U. Parsons, John Barr, James Davis, Joseph Phelps, Dr. James Dell, Dennett Phillips, Charles Dodie, _ Giten, Samuel Dell, John Lane, ____Duck, John Pullis, Samuel Pullis, John Bell, ___Alexander, Colonel William H. Moberly ... March 7, 1845 - And it is further ordered that John G. Flourney, Edward
Hoyle, Alexander Carroll, Marshall Harrison, and William M. Long be and they are
hereby appointed trustees of said town, as aforesaid, to hold their offices
respectively until their successors are elected and qualified.
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