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The Story of an Old Settler

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Newspaper clipping of article written by Jennie Bailey (1858-1937) about her father, James Bailey (1815-1888), and mother, Cornelia Doolittle Bailey (1824-1893) and their life in early Grinnell. James Bailey was an Abolitionist and his home was a station on the Underground Railroad. Other people mentioned include Alfred Bailey, Lorenzo Bailey, Joanna Bailey Baggs, and Dennis and Clark Thompson. Topics discussed include the first saw mill in Grinnell, the Bailey House hotel, the Sugar Creek war, and prairie flora.
Title Story of an Old Settler
author Bailey, Jennie, 1858-1937
Index Date 1930
Date Issued before 1937
Publisher Poweshiek History Preservation Project
Provenance Russ Stoker
Topic Prairie plants
Topic Bailey, James Fordyce, 1815-1888
Topic Underground Railroad
Topic Frontier and pioneer life
Geographic Grinnell (Iowa)
Keyword Grinnell
Keyword Business
Keyword Family life
Keyword Transportation
Keyword 1850s
Related Item Poweshiek History Preservation Project
Related Item Digital Grinnell
Genre clipping
Extent 1 sheet
Media Type application/pdf
Digital Origin digitized other analog
Language English
Identifier (local) grinnell:5828
Identifier (hdl) http://hdl.handle.net/11084/5828
Access Condition Copyright to this work is held by the author(s), in accordance with United States copyright law (USC 17). Readers of this work have certain rights as defined by the law, including but not limited to fair use (17 USC 107 et seq.).
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