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.
