James A. Throop ran a hardware business and the Mount Pleasant Free Press, as well as being secretary of the Loyal Union League of Henry County, Iowa in 1864. The Union League supported the United States Sanitary Commission's work during the Civil…
James A. Throop ran a hardware business and the Mount Pleasant Free Press, as well as being secretary of the Loyal Union League of Henry County, Iowa in 1864. In the back of his business ledger are recipes written by his wife Bessie Throop in 1897.
Sign for New London on pole next to tracks. Grain elevators and other bulidings in distance. Automobiles parked on road. Signals at intersection of tracks and road. "Ronald D. Sims, 2717 Cornell St. Des Moines, Iowa 50313"--Photograph verso.
