{"id":7372,"date":"2016-12-30T17:31:17","date_gmt":"2016-12-30T23:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/?p=7372"},"modified":"2016-12-30T17:32:01","modified_gmt":"2016-12-30T23:32:01","slug":"iowas-170th-birthday-life-in-davenport-at-the-end-of-1846","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/2016\/12\/30\/iowas-170th-birthday-life-in-davenport-at-the-end-of-1846\/","title":{"rendered":"Iowa\u2019s 170th Birthday \u2013 Life in Davenport at the end of 1846"},"content":{"rendered":"

The State of Iowa turned 170 years old this week! Let’s have a look back at what was going on in Davenport at the time. <\/p>\n

From the Davenport \u201cTown\u201d Council Proceedings for December 8th<\/sup> 1846:<\/em><\/p>\n

The big issues: amending the corporation charter to add Ferry privileges, roaming hogs, a fence for the City Cemetery, and a few people still owing money for road taxes.<\/p>\n

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Selected stories from the Davenport Weekly Gazette, Thursday December 31, 1846:<\/em><\/p>\n

It had been a pleasantly mild winter up to that point.<\/p>\n

Prices for produce and provisions seemed reasonable.<\/p>\n

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Wagon traffic to Iowa and further west had increased considerably. One correspondent in Peoria theorized it was due, in part, to the results of the most recent elections. <\/p>\n

As-Shaw-E-Qua (Singing Bird), widow of the distinguished war chief Black Hawk<\/a>, died in the Sauk camp, on the Kansas River, on the 29th<\/sup> of August last, aged 85 years. (Notice they called Black Hawk a “war” not a “tribal” chief.)<\/p>\n

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There was a bribery scandal in the Iowa House of Representatives…<\/p>\n

 
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Huldah Sloper, wife of Samuel Sloper of Centerville, Scott County, died of Typhus Fever on December 17th<\/sup>, 1846, at the age of 57. She was the mother of 17 children and grandmother of 38, most of who lived in Scott County. The family has a road<\/a> named after them. <\/p>\n

Estate notices were posted for Lucius Moss, Robert Carleton, and Joseph Conway.<\/p>\n

Genealogists know that it’s rare to find an obituary for a woman during this period. Deaths were not recorded in the state of Iowa until 1880; burial records, church death registers, and probates were the only proofs available.<\/p>\n

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Happy birthday, Iowa!<\/p>\n

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