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- THE HISTORY OF MILLS COUNTY
by D.H. Solomon
1876
It was in the month of August, 185l, that the first election of which we have any record was held. I find records which denote the fact that the West Liberty precinct (Glenwood) had 55 votes; Rawles precinct __; Bethlehem precinct (Plattville) 37; Silver Creek precinct 45; total 168.
At this election Dr. Wm. Smith was elected County Judge; James Hardy, Sheriff, W.W. Noyes, Clerk D.C.
Silver Creek precinct: Andrew Clark, William C. Mathews, A.W. Sherman, Edmund Fisher, John Dyson, John L. Ballard, John K. McIntyre, William McDaniels, John Halton, Noah Cotten, William Redfield, Clark Stillman, Asa Davis, Anslim Coon, James Worthington, Thomas Traul, William Spencer, David Fry, Edward Miller, Chauncy Whiting, Squire Eggleston, Dexter Stillman, Mathew Ivory, William Steel, Sterling Davis, Harmon J. Chipman, Benjamin McIntyre, Woody Burdinnow, Joseph Fletcher, Jr., Silvester Whitney, Joseph Huff, C.W. Tolles, Levi J. Hull, J.W. Cox, Silvester Fletcher, Pliney Fisher, Silas Green, Wheatley Mickelwaite, R.S. Baldwin, John Anderson, Lewis Whiting, Jackson Burdick, Noah Green, Cary Burdick.
Glenwood, Iowa
Names of settlers who entered land in 1853:
Township 73, Range 42 - Squire Eggleston, William C. Mathews, Samuel Meadows, Isaac Meadows, Amos Coy, Martin Hayden, Parcus Harbert.
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