D. A. W. PERKINS

HISTORY

OF

Osceola County,

IOWA

FROM ITS ORGANIZATION TO THE

PRESENT TIME

BY D.A.W. PERKINS

1892
BROWN & SAENGER, PRINTERS AND BINDERS,
SIOUX FALLS, SO. DAK.

PREFACE

  The writer of these pages located O'Brien County, Iowa, in the fall of 1871, and hence knows something of the hardships and privations of the early settlers of these north-western Counties of the State, and particularly of the County of Osceola. This book is intended to rescue from coming oblivion many of the incidents and reminiscences of the early days of the County, and to give them record for the entertainment and benefit of the old settlers and the new, and also to give a general history of the County from its first organization.
    The book is not produced as a money making scheme; is not written to advertise anybody or anything. The writer has simply taken a certain portion of his time from a busy professional life, and wielded the pen in gratifying a personal desire to preserve the County's history, and also to bring home to the intelligent people of Osceola, and all others interested in the County, a record of what has gone before, up to the present date, and from which point some future historian may continue the task, when we, who were active participants in its early struggles, will be numbered among those who are of the silent city of the dead.