May 27, 1839 – Johnson County pioneer – Cyrus Sanders – visits with Chief Poweshiek in his Meskwaki village.
On December 6, 1838, Cyrus Sanders left Oxford, Ohio, taking a stagecoach to Cincinnati, where, on the next day, he boarded an Ohio River steamboat with only $100 in his pocket. Over the next five years (1838-1843), in his journal, Sanders gives us a day-by-day account of one man’s pioneering trek – relocating from Ohio to Johnson County, Iowa.
A Day-by-Day Calendar of Historical Events In Iowa, William J. Petersen, State Historical Society of Iowa, 1946, p 50
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