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Author:
Whittaker, William E.
Title:
History of Plum Grove / William E. Whittaker.
Publisher:
William E. Whittaker,
Copyright Date:
2007
Description:
114 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Subject:
Lucas, Robert,--1781-1853.
Brainerd, Eleanor Hoyt,--1868-1942.
Hoyt, Walter,--1819-1869.
Switzer, Jacob Carroll,--1843-1914.
Plum Grove (Iowa City, Iowa)
Plum Grove Historic Site (Iowa City, Iowa)
Iowa City (Iowa)--History.
Iowa City (Iowa)--Biography.
Historic buildings--Iowa City.--Iowa City.
Iowa--Politics and government--19th century.
Ohio--Politics and government--19th century.
Notes:
"Being an incomplete, uneven, fragmentary, and occasionally contradictory history of the Iowa City residence of Robert Lucas (former governor of Ohio and former territorial governor of Iowa), the final home of Walter Hoyt (adventurer and abolitionist), the childhood home of Eleanor Hoyt Brainerd (author, editor, gadabout), last home of Jacob Carroll Switzer (war hero, bank employee), and boyhood home of Rober tHughes (educator), also containing perlustrations into the nature of the early Ohio-Iowa political dynasty and idle gossip about people long dead, in a volume the author began ten years ago and wishes he had more time to work on, but this will have to do until then." Includes bibliographical references.
OCLC:
(OCoLC)157194236
Locations:
F3OX522 -- State Historical Society of Iowa Library (Iowa City)

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