Orion Clemens and his wife had settled there in June of 1855, Sam, and younger brother Henry, helped Orion publish the Keokuk Journal out of a building at 202 Main Street. Sam lived at First and Johnson Streets. By late 18i55 Sam was across the river in Warsaw, Illinois working a for another newspaper. By the fall of 1856, Sam had left for Cincinnati. Orion departed Keokuk for Nevada but eventually returned to stay in 1872.
In 1882:
June 27, 1894 Wednesday – Frenchmen were rioting throughout the country, angry over the assassination of President Sadi Carnot on June 24. Sam wrote of a crisis situation at the Grand Hotel in La Bourboule, which had several Italians in their employ.
See letter to Rogers, June 29.
Larimore had its start in the year 1881 by the building of the railroad through that territory. It is named for N. G. Larimore, who owned a large farm in the area
LaSalle was named in honor of the early French explorer, Robert de LaSalle.
Lee occupies land that was originally territory of Mahican Indians. The first non-native settlement in the area was known as Dodgetown as early as 1760. Dodgetown was named after its founding settler, Asahel Dodge, who immigrated to the area from Cape Cod. Lee was incorporated in 1777 from parts of Great Barrington and Washington. It is named after Revolutionary War General Charles Lee.[2] Lee is a former mill town.
Sources generally concur on its identity as a station, but disagree on its status as a home or relay station. In 1859, Joseph H. Cottrell and Hank Williams contracted with Russell, Majors, and Waddell to build and lease a livery stable as a home station. Riders stayed at the nearby American Hotel, which was north of the livery stable. The north end of the stone stable served as a blacksmith shop, and stalls were located on the other side. Also was known as Palmetto City (NPS)
The location cited is probably the town of Chester.
Orion Clemens moved there in September of 1853 and ran the Muscatine Journal. Sam joined him for an undetermined period of time, ending in August of 1854.
East of Napoleon, The Beulah Bend (now Lake Beulah) was a 10-mile arc of the Mississippi River that started at the mouth of the Arkansas and semi-circled back around to within a mile of the Arkansas river's mouth.[6][7] During the American Civil War,
November 20, 1884 I have not seen anything to document it but I believe Sam would have taken the Newburgh to Beacon Ferry to access the Hudson River train to New York.
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