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History of Linn County,
Missouri
An Encyclopedia of Useful Information, and A Compendium of
Actual Facts.
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It Contains
A Condensed History of the State of Missouri and Its Chief
Cities -
St. Louis, Kansas City and St. Joseph;
A Reliable History of Lynn County -
Its Pioneer Record, War History,
Resources, Biographical Sketches and Portraits of
Prominent Citizens; General and Local Statistics of great
Value, and a Large Amount of Miscellaneous
Matter, Incidents, etc. Etc.
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ILLUSTRATED
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Publ. Kansas City, Mo.
Birdsall & Dean.
1882
CHAPTER XXV.
YELLOW CREEK TOWNSHIP
When Settled - Its metes and Bounds -
Topography - Land and Money - Early Settlers and their
Trials - Happenings - Agriculture - War Items - Dead
Towns - St. Kate, Its Past and Present - Education and
Religion - Death of W. H. Elliott, Founder of St.
Catharine - Lodges and Societies - Its Present and
Business Future - Accidents -
BIOGRAPHIES
(Source: History of Linn County,
Missouri - Publ. Kansas City, Mo. by Birdsall & Dean - 1882)
pg. 669 - 694 ---
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This
township, in name, was one of the three
original townships which formed the
municipal division of the county of Linn at
the first session of the County Court, Feb.
3, 1837. The boundary lines of the
township are given in the general history.
From time to time Yellow Creek, like Locust
Creek and Parson Creek townships, was
divided into others, of which Baker township
was one, lying on its northern border.
When Sullivan territory became, in fact, a
county, in 1845, Linn county was divided
into seven municipal divisions, of which
Yellow Creek was one, and occupied the
southeast part of Linn county. Her
dimensions were twelve miles north and
south; on her southern border, eight miles
east and west; and on the northern line,
which was the township line dividing
townships fifty-eight and fifty-nine, was
ten miles east and west, the extra two miles
extending south from her northern border,
three miles, this diagram being its shape:
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But Yellow Creek
township, which could once boast of covering
one-third of the territory composing both
Linn and Sullivan counties, has been sadly
ravished of her fair proportions, and is
to-day but a skeleton of her former self,
being long and lank. Yellow Creek is
not a pretty township to look at, but what
there is left of her is pretty solid, even
if she cannot boast of a metropolitan city
within her borders.
METES AND BOUNDS -
VALUATION.
EARLY SETTLERS.
WHAT HAPPENED.
WAR ITEMS.
AFTER THE DELUGE.
DEAD TOWNS.
ST. CATHARINE.
HER BUSINESS INTERESTS.
METHODIST EPISCOPAL
CHURCH SOUTH.
CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH.
METHODIST EPISCOPAL
CHURCH SOUTH.
LENHART CONGREGATIONAL
CHURCH.
METHODIST EPISCOPAL
CHURCH SOUTH.
CHURCH OF THE UNITED
BRETHEREN
KING SOLOMON LODGE NO.
91.
ACCIDENTS.
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. |
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