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Guthrie County, Iowa 


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Our Tallman family moved from Onandaga County, NY to Guthrie County, Iowa in the late 1860's or early 1870's.

Guthrie County, Iowa

Brief County History

Guthrie County was named by Theophilus Bryan, sheriff and later county judge of the county. He named it in honor of his friend Captain Edwin B. Guthrie, a commanding officer of a company of Iowa volunteers in the Mexican War.

The county was organized, and the search for a county seat began. The State Legislature, at its 1850-1851 session, appointed David Bishop of Madison County and Lewis Whitten of Polk County to designate a county seat. After taking location and the center of the population at that time into consideration, the town of Panora was selected.

In June of 1853 there was a contract let to build the courthouse, but for some reason it was never built. It stayed this way until March 16, 1857, when Edward Serry made plans and specifications for a courthouse. Soon afterwards James Cline was hired to build the courthouse. Again the contract was annulled and the courthouse was not built. Mr. Cline received $200 for his troubles.

On March 7, 1859 William Tracy and E.B. Newton presented county judge Aaron Hougham with a petition asking that the location of the courthouse be moved to Guthrie Center, since it was more towards the center of the county than Panora. It was sent to the voters of the county, and Panora won by a count of 297 to 277. The first courthouse was finally built later in 1859.

This setback did not stop the people of Guthrie Center. On March 1860 another petition was filed on behalf of Guthrie Center. James Cline then filed a petition against the Guthrie Center petition. After the court took these petitions and testimony of the citizens under advisement, it was decided that another election would be held on April 2, 1860. This time Panora lost, and, on April 7, the court decreed that Guthrie Center was the new county seat and ordered all the papers moved to Guthrie Center.

A wagon train set out for Panora to obtain the safe and county records. They returned in full force with the safe, records and county judge T.B. Harbour. All of these were housed in a building prepared by E.B. Newton.

A petition was brought before the September session in 1861 by the people of Panora to relocate the county seat. Again the people voted and this time Panora won the right to house the county seat. So the safe, records and county judge were all packed up and moved back to Panora.

Taken from History of County Governments in Iowa, published in 1992 by Iowa State Association of Counties, Des Moines, Iowa and the IAGenWeb site for Guthrie County.

Guthrie Surnames in the 1892 Iowa Farmers Directory

GUTHRIE CENTER POST OFFICE
in Guthrie Co, IA    Guthrie Center

N

Noland, Barthy
Noland, Phillip
Noland, Sylvester
Nolind, J.O.*****

T

Tallman, J.B.   [Jude Bradford]

Guthrie Lookups https://sites.rootsweb.com/~iaguthri/html/lookups.htm

Here's a listing of the available census for Guthrie Co, IA.  The roll numbers are those given by the National Archives. These rolls can be rented from the National Archives, Family History Centers, or available at some libraries either in house or through interlibrary loan, or there are places on-line where you can purchase your own copy.

Federal Census Microfilm for Guthrie County, Iowa

  • 1860 (This is now online!) Roll #M653-323 [shows names of everyone in the household, age, state of birth, occupation, value of real estate]
  • 1870 Roll #M593-393[same as above]
  • 1880 Roll #T9-342 [same as above but adds location of parents birth, relationship] 
  • 1900 Roll #T623-434 [adds yrs married, number of children, number living, year of immigration, years in US, naturalized] 
  • 1910 Roll ##T624-404 [adds homeownership information]
  • 1920 Roll #T625-491

https://sites.rootsweb.com/~iabiog/

History of Guthrie and Adair Counties, Iowa

Springfield, Ill: Continental Hist. Co., 1884.

Seeley Township
Transcribed by Bobbi Pohl

J. B. Tallman

J. B. Tallman was born in New York state in the year 1851, being the son of D. C. and Elizabeth (Carpenter) Tallman. When he was about six years of age he came to Scott county, Iowa, where he remained some eight years, when he moved to Cedar county, remaining about two years. He then came to Guthrie county in 1868, where he settled in Highland township. He lived in that township until 1882, when he moved to his present location on section 14 [Seeley township]. He owns two hundred acres of land, one hundred and sixty of which are under cultivation, and raises cattle, hogs and other stock. Mr. Tallman was married in 1874 to Miss Maggie Sheets, who died in September, 1876. He was married again on March 12, 1878, to Miss Mary A. Berry.

https://sites.rootsweb.com/~iabiog/guthrie/g1884/g1884-seeley.htm

 

History of Clinton County, Iowa

Chicago: Western Hist. Co., 1879.

The following index was copied here with permission from the Clinton County IAGenWeb site.  The biographies are available at the Clinton County site.

Tallman, Elizabeth 754
Tallman, W. Mrs. 754
Tallman, W. H. 573, 574

 

Past and Present of Greene County, Iowa

by E. B. Stillman ... Chicago: S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1907. 
LaCrosse, WI : Brookhaven Press, 2000. [Reprint]

https://sites.rootsweb.com/~iabiog/greene/pp1907/pp1907.htm

Tallman, N C 643
Tallman, Reuben S 565
Tallman, Winfield H 656

Biographical and Historical Record of Greene and Carroll Counties, Iowa

Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago  1887

Greene County Index

https://sites.rootsweb.com/~iabiog/greene/gc1887/gc1887.htm#tindx

Tallman, J. H., 325

The History of Jasper County, Iowa

Chicago: Western Hist. Co., 1878.

Hickory Grove Township
Submitted by Shelley Arri

TALLMAN, G. W.; Farmer; Sec. 12; P. O. Grinnell.

https://sites.rootsweb.com/~iabiog/jasper/h1878/h1878-hickorygrove.htm

History of Mitchell and Worth Counties, Iowa

Springfield, Ill: Union Publishing Co., 1884.

Mitchell County

https://sites.rootsweb.com/~iabiog/mitchell/mw1884/mw1884.htm

This book is available through your local Family History Center, microfilm #0934954.  The index was transcribed by Cay Merryman. The page numbers in some cases were very difficult to read. If the biography you want is not on the page listed, it might be an error in transcribing.

Pg #
237 Tallman, A. W.
404 Tallman, A. W.

History of Linn County, Iowa

Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1878. 
LaCrosse: Brookhaven Press, 2001 [reprint]

https://sites.rootsweb.com/~iabiog/linn/hl1878/hl1878.htm

Tallman, J C 805
Tallman, Nath H 796

 

History of Guthrie and Adair Counties, Iowa

Springfield, Ill: Continental Hist. Co., 1884.

Cass Township
Transcribed by Bobbi Pohl

https://sites.rootsweb.com/~iabiog/guthrie/g1884/g1884-cass.htm

Milo Yale

Milo Yale, son of Nathaniel and Polly (Werrin) Yale, was born in Oneida county, New York, in 1822. He removed from there with his parents to Lee county, Illinois, in 1836, where they remained until 1877, when they came to Guthrie county, settling in Richland township. He was married in Illinois in 1844, to Miss Eveline Tallman, a native of New York. They have eight children--Samuel J., Charles, Wallace, Jeannette, Frank, Byron, Ida and Bruce. He owns about five hundred acres of land [in Cass township] nearly all of which is under cultivation and raises large numbers of cattle and hogs.

 

History of Fremont County, Iowa

Des Moines: Iowa Hist. Co., 1881.

Sidney Township
Transcribed by Cay Merryman

https://sites.rootsweb.com/~iabiog/fremont/f1881/f1881-sidney.htm

JOHNSON, M. D., superintendent county farm, P. O. Sidney; born in the state of New York, October 14, 1823, remaining in the county of his birth until 1833, when he removed to Chautauqua county. In 1854 Mr. Johnson came to Jones county, Iowa, where he remained until December 8, 1870, when he became a resident of this county. He enlisted August 23, 1862, in company K, 24th Iowa, and was with his regiment in all its engagements. He was several times promoted for meritorious conduct, and was mustered out as commissary sergeant. He was married to Miss Phebe A. Tallman, November 14, 1846, by whom he is the father of five children: Don C., Porter M., Ella B., Clinton D., and May E. He is a member of the A. F. and A. M. He has held several township offices, and been twice elected as superintendent of the poor farm.

 

History of Jones County, Iowa

R. M. Corbit, editor-in-chief. Vols I & II. Chicago: S J Clarke Publishing Co., 1910. Salem: Higginson Book Co., 1994 [facsimile reprint]

The following index was submitted by Dick Barton Biographies can be found at the Jones County GenWeb site.

https://sites.rootsweb.com/~iabiog/jones/hj1910/hj1910.htm

Storm, Fred J II 172   Fred J. Storm

Tallman, W E II 564

https://sites.rootsweb.com/~iajones/bio/biopage.htm

Benjamin Tallman
John Tallman
Wilber E. Tallman

A. T. Andreas Illustrated Historical Atlas of the State of Iowa, 1875.

Published by Andreas Atlas Corp., Chicago.
Reprint: Iowa City, Iowa, State Historical Society, 1970. 

This index was submitted by Richard Barton.

Tallman, A W, Capt   372

 

Portrait and Biographical Album of Henry County, Iowa 

Chicago: Acme Publishing Company, 1888.  Evansville: Unigraphic, 1976 [Reprint]

https://sites.rootsweb.com/~iabiog/henry/pbh1888/pbh1888-c.htm

Howard Carter

He was born in Muskingum Co., OH April 7, 1825, the son of Isaac G. and Harriet (Josselyn) Carter, who were both natives of Waldo Co., ME who went to Muskingum Co., OH when quite young and were married Dec. 16, 1819 in Perry Co., OH. 

Isaac G. Carter was the son of Isaac P. Carter and Joanna Gay, and was was born Sept. 6, 1797. His wife was born Jan. 9, 1802 and was the  daughter of Joshua and Sarah (Chapman) Josselyn.

Mr. and Mrs. Carter had a family of 10 sons, the first of whom died in infancy. Ira J. resided on the old homestead in Grant Co., IN; Howard, our subject, was third in birth order; Joseph is a  farmer in Grant Co., IN; Elijah is blacksmith in Jonesboro, Grant Co., IN; John H. is a merchant of New Cumberland, Grant Co., IN; Albert died at age two; Lewis is a farmer in Grant Co., IN;  Oliver died at age 24, and Alfred died in infancy. The 7 oldest were born in Muskingum Co., OH, and the next three in Grant Co., Indiana. 

Howard married Eleanor Lyon on Feb. 18, 1851. She was born in Ohio Jan. 22, 1831, in Guernsey Co. 

They had 9 children:  Nancy M., b. Grant Co., IN in 1852 and married William H. Snell; Sarah J. was born 1853 and married John Seberg of NE; Harriet J. was born 1855, and died 1870; Leroy P. was born 1857 and resides in Minnesota; Rhoda C. was born 1858 and married Frank Tallman, of KS; M. Alice was born 1860 and resides at home; William E. was born 1862, and died 1887; George H. was born 1865, and Eva I. born in 1867 and married Alfred H. Anderson. 

 


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