Elizabeth Eddy, wife of J.P. Eddy, came to the Iowa Territory from Warren, Ohio with her husband in 1840. She was a pioneer in as many ways as her husband, and can be credited with helping build stability as J.P. Eddy established a trading post in…
J.P. Eddy came to the Iowa Territory from Warren, Ohio in 1840. He set up a trading post among the native Sauk and Fox indians at that time near the Muchankinock Creek mouths along the Des Moines River. In 1842, a treaty was established between the…
Thomas Gray enlisted in the Union Army on August 24, 1861. He was from the booming river town of Eddyville, Iowa, located in Mahaska County. After being mustered up the next month, Gray was engaged in some of the earliest battles of the Civil War. …
