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1863.] Cf>ÜNTT OF ECÖTT. 4T
fingers playing to receive "that dime." He died of cholera in
The first white male child born in Davenport, was a son of Levi
'^S. Coiton, in thfl Autumn of 1836, who died at the Indian villagt,
on the Iowa river, in August, 1840. '^he first Êimale child' was a
daughter of D. C. Eldridjje, stiil living. Alexander W. McGregor
opened the fii'St law otHce, in 1S3Ö. A. M. GiK'it, a. Methodic^
minister, preached the first sermon, in the house of Mr. D.C. Eld-
ridge, corner of Front and Ripley streets. There v.'cre seven
deaths this year, the first being that of JNIrs. Tanneyliil!. Siie wa»-
buried upon tlie brow ofthe bluff, where the First Baptist churcji
now stands, on Sixth and Main streets, where a place liad been
selected as the burial grounds of the town. Others were buried
in Mr. LeClaire's private ground, ccriier of 0th and LeClair»
streets. This spot is now covered v.-ith improvements, (th«
graves all having been removed,), and is occv^ied by the familjr
residence of V/. Barrows, Esq. In his garden was bnried Dr.
yiimerson, the owner of the celebrated Dred Scott, who accom-
panied his master to this territory, while he was in tlic army aft
Fort Armstrong ; and it was upon this ground that the suit wa«
predicated for Dred's ñ-eedum.
[TO HE CONTHSUED.]
EDITORIAL ]SOTICE.
This nutnbgr bigina t'iü lli.itory of Scitt county, wliich will ho continued,
in sub-icq'iL-iit isincs. It w.i.s wtitten abojt tliree years a'¿'i, and iU'i cditer
cannot bj siippoácd to h.ive lu.i':.' r.ll tbo correction:? of cintos, .inil nuiUera of
allusion to y(.'nrs, but ho li.is înadû tliein whsre most obviouSi Tlii»
explanation is duü bntb to th« writer, Mr. Earrovrs, and to Ihe conductor C)£_
theAniifilti. To the old ticttlurs, as v/cU as new coiners, it rvi!l üír.ird a rich
ircat, and amply p;iy ioT reading, marking, and inwardly digesting:, »Imost
every page containin^^ SQ:II3 stiiMiig incident. Tt is thu only rĉ r̂L-t of th»
Gominitteo of Publiciition, that its length must compull Ihc insertion of tb«
History in diiiürent iiiitiiber.-í, instead of i-i.siiing it all at once. Tlic Lypo of
Hti& ArinaU has been changad to Long Prinier, instüad ofSjiiall Pica, tbereby
admitting muro rnattcron a p.'ig«. But it is utterly impossiWylo ¡.rinf/iiioF.»-'
largely, until the Legislatiire takes the expense upon itself, or tiie Litcrar/
Public patronize iiie work, as thu cheapest in 'ho Sta'.e anjöacuntny.



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