IOWA STATE PENITENTIORY, FORT MADISON. List of prisoners received from Johnson county, from September 16, 1852, to July 12, 1882: Regis'd CRIME, Date Date Discharged. 26 William Pearce.....|Larceny... .[Sept. 16, '52...|Sept. 15, '53... 61 William Conliff do NAME. June 16, '54... May 3, '59 Nov. 8, 66 2 65 Elisha B. Freeman.. Seduction... Nov. 6, '54. 68 Pleasant Fonts.... .Murder 2d d. Jan. 15, '55. P's'g c'f't m'y March 19, '58.. do do Larceny. Larceny.. terfeit mon July 31, '60. .. July 5, '61 .. G'd Larceny Feb. 11, '59....Oct. 11, '61.. Nathan Hendricks Having coun alias Hend'ks Townsend ey 359 Wm. A. Carney.... Larceny. 450 Champion Vaughn.. 478 James Bailey.... do do 7 479 Nelson G. Whiting.. Counterf't'ng Nov. 16, '66.. Nov. 9, '67. . . 66 66 May 26, '68.... Feb. 26, '70.. 66 66 10 11 66 Nov. 11, '72.. May 16, 70.... Feb. 16, '72.. 12 13 July 10, 74.. Burglary.. Feb. 4, '78..... May 4, '82 REMARKS:-1 Pardoned November 2, '55. 2 Pardoned Aug. 12, '57. 3 Escaped. Died June 27, '75. 5 Order Supreme Court, Nov. 3, '59. 6 ditto. 7 Pardoned August 2, '60. 8 Pardoned April 14, '71. 9 Pardoned January 21, '68. 10 Pardoned December 22, 71. 11 Pardoned December 23, '72. 12 Sent to Anamosa May 13, '73. 13 Pardoned July 24, 74. At present [July 12, 1882] there is not a single prisoner from Johnson county in this institution. HIEL HALE, Deputy Warden. ANAMOSA ADDITIONAL PENITENTIARY. List of prisoners received from Johnson county, from January 22, 1873, to July 15, 1882: Larceny 66 66 16, '77... July 13, '76. William Dilley. . . Murder 1st deg... Feb. 6, '77 J. D. McMahan.. Forgery. A. Keeler.... Wm. Keeler.. 66 Feb. 4, '78.... Oct. 6, '76.. Trans. to Ft. Mad., Died, Aug. 21, '81. George Walker.. Burglary. W. B. Rising. 66 Assault with int't Assault with int't This is a correct list; those not marked discharged are here yet. Yours Respectfully, A. E. MARTIN, Warden. The very first gubernatorial message ever promulgated in Iowa was strongly and decisively a temperance document. This was the message which Gov. Lucas delivered at the opening of the first Iowa Legislature ever convened, and occurred at Burlington, on Monday, the 12th day of November, 1838. In this document the Governor said: We frequently see the most disastrous consequences proceed from practices, that in some places are considered as only fashionable vices—namely, gambling and intemperance. These two vices may be considered the fountains from which almost every other crime proceeds, as the statistical reports of many of the penitentiaries conclusively show. They have produced more murders, robberies, and individual distress, than all other crimes put together: this is evident, when we consider the many thousands that annually destroy themselves, and bring their families to beggary and wretchedness, by pursuing these vices: for surely there can be no murder of a deeper moral dye than self murder; and no robbery of a more heinous character than the robbery of our own families. Could you in your wisdom devise ways and means to check the progress of gambling and intemperance in this territory, you will perform an act that would immortalize your names and entitle you to the gratitude of posterity. In this as in many other particulars, Gov. Lucas clearly laid down the true and righteous principles of government, which afterward became embodied in constitutional and statute laws of the State, once with the voice of Johnson county concurring (1855), and once with its strong majority against the measure (1882). As he was an honored and beloved citizen of Johnson county, it was proper in this history to note, as done above, how clearly he discerned and forecast the higher levels of Christian statesmanship which were yet to be climbed up to, if this land fulfilled its mission in the divine economy of States. THE TEMPERANCE CAUSE. On June 1, 1842, there was a Washingtonian temperance meeting in the Methodist Protestant Church. Judge Williams and Dr. Reynolds, were the speakers. John Horner was secretary of the organization. The Iowa city band furnished music for the occasion. At a meeting of the Total Abstinence Society, held at Iowa City, on the 14th of September, 1842, the following preamble and resolution was unanimously adopted: Resolved, that the secretary of this society be authorized and directed to enter into a correspondence with the temperance societies in the principal places in this territory, in order to ascertain from them what they can do in aid of a subscription for maintaining a permanent temperance missionary for the territory of Iowa; and that the Washingtonian society is respectfully requested to join in such correspondence. The same meeting adopted a resolution reciting that a report had been put in circulation that their temperance missionary, Mr. Z. Washburn, when he was attending court in Iowa Clty in June preceding "got so drunk that he had to be taken out of the city and laid under a shade tree till he got sober;" and then they Resolved, that the said report is a malicious falsehood, and deserves the condemnation of all good men. April 1, 1843, a report is made by Wm. Foster and J. M. Price, that Z. Washburn had been lecturing in their neighborhood, and ninety-six had signed the pledge. Dr. Jesse Bowen was known as the "invisible" editor of the Whig paper called the Standard, and so when anything appeared in that paper which its opponents wanted to pitch into, it was attributed to him, no matter whether he had ever seen it before it was printed or not. Along in 1842, 1843, there was considerable agitation of the temperance question going on, and the Standard criticised pretty severely the methods and theories of some of the agitators; whereupon a writer in the Capital Reporter replied to him thus: The fears of the doctor that an union of Church and State are about to take place in the territory of Iowa, are so visionary and absurd in this enlightened age, that it seems to me when he gives them his second sober thought, that he will dismiss them from his mind as the dreams of a disordered intellect. This will serve to show something of the temper and quality of the temperance controversy in Johnson county at that time. SONS OF TEMPERANCE. October 7, 1847, there was instituted at Iowa City, "Far West Division No. 4 of the Sons of Temperance." The charter members were W. Penn Clarke, James Robinson, Wm. McCormick, H. D. Downey, James Harlan, Silas Foster and S. C. Trowbridge. The instituting officer was T. S. Battell, of Muscatine, acting as Deputy Grand Worthy Patriarch. The pledge was: "No brother shall make, buy, sell or use as a beverage, any spirituous or malt liquors, wine or cider." The meeting for organization was held in the old capitol building, now the main building of the State University. The organization lingered along ten or twelve years, but never quite got up to the Iowa level on the woman question. This order never admitted women to membership except permissibly on local option for a year or so, and then forbade it again--though finally a sort of crinoline degree or "complimentary sideshow" was fixed up to bridge over the women question. But it was not a success. Then the order of Good Templars sprang up, giving women full equality in its councils, and it eventually superseded the order of "Sons" entirely. The following list from the old roll of membership of "Far West Division" shows some historic names, all in their own handwriting, and shows who mustered in the order during its lifetime in Iowa City: William Patterson, deceased; J. D. W. Marsh, moved away; Wm. Penn Clarke, now in Washington, D. C.; Anson Hart, deceased; James Robinson, deceased; Henry Murray, M. D., died; Wm. McCormick, M. D., Grass Valley, Cal.; Edward Redhead, moved away; James Clark, head chief of Temple of Honor order; Jos. T. Fales, first State auditor, died; H. D. Downey, banker, died; G. D. Palmer, editor, out west; James Harlan. ex-U. S. Senator; Thomas Snyder, died; Geo. S. Hampton, ex-clerk supreme court, died; Silas Foster, died; S. C. Trowbridge, Curator State Historical Society; I. Crummey, died; Jno. M. Colman, died; Peter Moriarty, ex-State printer, deceased; C. C. Catlett, deceased; James Franklin, deceased; M. T. Patterson, in California; Henry Ward, moved away; Nelson King, ex-member legislature; Anthony Cole, deceased; B. P. Moore, deceased; M. J. Morsman, M. D., still in Iowa City; A. W. Sweet, moved away; Robt. M. Secrest, deceased; Oliver J. Phelps, deceased; J. C. Nobles, moved away; Charles Cartwright, still in Iowa City; Charles Pirmey, moved away; Israel Fisher, moved away; Chauncey Swan, deceased; Sylvanus Johnson, still lives at Iowa City; S. Magill, still in Iowa City; Alcinus Young, deceased; Anthony F. Thompson, moved away; Abraham C. Price, M. D., moved away; W. A. Henry, deceased; Samuel McCord, deceased; Dean E. Reynolds, moved away; Joseph H. Fisher, moved away; John L. Gordon, moved to Missouri; John J. Sanders, M. D., deceased; Samuel M. Coleman, moved away; W. S. Street, deceased; Lewis S. Swafford, still here; Samuel J. Hess, still here; Wm. Hamilton, deceased; O. J. McCormick, moved away; Charles Gaymon, still here; Isaac V. Dennis, still here; Dwight C. Dewey, M. D., moved away; R. Hutchinson, still here; S. R. Price, moved away. James Robinson was the Worthy Patriarch of the Iowa City Division, who represented it when the grand division of the State was organized, Nov. 25, 1847. CADETS OF TEMPERANCE. Early in 1882 the brother editors of the Iowa State Register at Des Moines, expressed pride and satisfaction that they had belonged to the order of Cadets of Temperance in their boyhood, and asked other excadets of Iowa to report the fact. And for several months thereafter it was quite in fashion for men who had formerly belonged to this "toga virilis" temperance order to have the fact published in that "boss newspaper of the capital city." In 1849 or '50, J. M. Coleman, James Harlan, S. C. Trowbridge and Joseph T. Fales, procured a charter and organized a section of Cadets of Temperance in Iowa City. This organization was for boys between the ages of fourteen and eighteen years, and none others were admitted. It was entirely under the fostering care of the order of Sons of Temperance, and its members on becoming eighteen years old passed into the order of Sons by special privilege. The boys elected all their own officers, the highest of whom was called Worthy Archon; but they must also have present some authorized member of the Sons to represent the |