The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1867-09-05

-Pxsf. RREsENT AND FUTURE
~ ,iEiptonis the county scat of Cedar cos,n
ty, and is situated at the geographical
cehtrc 81 that county which contains
, shout So, $50 acres Of good prairie land,
and shout q, $50 Of timber land, the lat
ter being principally west Of the center
M the county and some of 1t within one
mile Of The. town. .....
The original town plat OF Upton,
(which embraces oil Of the northwest
Quarter 81 section six, in township So,
= nerth and range two, west Of 9Th princi-
,pal, meridian, was obtained from the Uni
'eted States Ivy the county, through Its
Commissioners, J. c. Mcdonald, John
Atkins ssnd Henry Higginson. The
name of Upton was given to the con-
.tenfpiated town by the Commissioners,
:; one of whom was friend Of General
brripton of Indiana. and gave his consent
Center Of the county on the condition
THAT he should have the privilege of
Manning it after his friend, the General.
THE original plat of Upton was certified
\ by the county Commissioners, w. Mil
'. ler, Daniel Eomstock and G.. Foy; and
nhw,,s sworn to before w. a. Rigby, Esq,
who built the first house in Red Oak.
The town plat was surveyed by John
M Tomlinson, and was filed for record
,son tho first day of June, 1910, at O'Clock
a.sp. In, the precise time ut which the
hhcounty commenced It's legal existence.
,aiyThe town at first consisted of 40 blocks
-nnf twelve ilnts each, with streets SO fee.
wide, and alleys ls feet wide. The
:" blocks being 500 feet square are number
uicdin tiers from east to west, and west to
j catt, alternately, commencing at the
'hrorth-east corner of the original plat;
. the Presbyterian Church being on block
ni2,saild the railroad being the western
aal,oundary, and a line near seventh street
ah,bcirs the northern boundary. Jen-
, nings addition to Upton was made
s,'Jme 18th, 1910, by Charles J Jennings.
| .at,t consisted of one tier of fraction lots
Between the original plat and Seventh
street, aud "A blocks lying in two tiers
north of that street. Stars addition
was a,lded to the town Dec. IS, 1856, by
a.o..Johm II. Starr; and was formed from
afha acres lying directly west of the origi-
.1inalplat. 8r ra IT,. "t+
tt9i Moore and Culbertson's addition, by
John Culbertson and Moore, was attach
IN I'd Dec. 9th, 1857, and consisted of one
Z. tier of blocks north of jennings addi-
ttion, and four north of STAIRS addition.
"a Longs addition was annexed to the
- Southwest corner ofthc town, March Sd,
1858, and consists of lots and 10 frac-
tibnal lots 9d ..A
rhc first house in Upton was 14xl6
ioS house, built by w. nj. Knott, for a
Mr.. Chase, who is In Buchanan county,
md who still owes $3.50, with interest,
II Sorthe building Of said house. SO the
latown may in one sense be said to be in
debted to Mr. Kuo.t for the commence
mcnt Of its existence. In this house the
first commissioners Court was held, and
twas ut the same time the Clerks Of
flee, and Recordc- and Treasurer's of
+ flee. This house was built before the
town was laid out, and when the ground
ON which Upton Is situated was good
Hunting ground. ........
bad a4f THE PIONEERS. 1@ #rs.
M w, Cummings, John Culbertson and
John l., Cook We're the first residents O.
j Pipton, and werc soon followed by G.
M, Jennings, Daniel Davis, ". *
tWhittlesey, +. J. Friend, w. III. Tut
hill and others. la
At the time of the first settlement o.
" the town the nearest neighbors Oh the
Red Oak, and Capt. Higginson at Ban
her's Grove.
.st J. =. Cook was the first merchant il
Upton. John Culbertson kept the frs
hotel in building which constitutes {
part Of the Beatty House. Jennings n
the same time kept hotel in the ole
"Petrican House." which stood on the
Ground in jennings addition, now
owned by the heirs of Frederick Horn
deceased. +. NJ. McGraw (now in Wis
consin) was the first wagon maker il
town. Jacob Haight was the first shoe
maker; J. II. McCurdy was the first tai
Ion; II. ii. Adams was the first Black
.nith, and is still at work. Trial
Fcrrre preached the first sermon il
5a Upton. ". r.. Rankin, now of New
u philadelphia, was the first lawyer; ant
those whom he prosecuted say that h'
boarded with G. M. Jennings, the frs
Justice, and had things about his OWL
Il ,haay. Wnether there is any justice IL
ggsu>h remarks we arc not prepared to say
III. G.,Whitlock, runaway Mormon
now in California;, was the first Physi'
Iss1lan,s and sustained his practice, princi-
5r6liy,E by administering such stimulants
i, as were Host agreeable to his patients,
! and n which he had such confidence
u that hel took large quantities himself.
sfAThomas Gray was the first school teach
- ef 64id, Instructed, his pupils how to
charge the rugged hill of science, in the