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History of Johnson County, Iowa T Unless otherwise noted, biographies submitted by Mary Hitchcock. WALTER TERRELL submitted by Dick Barton WALTER TERRELL, a retired citizen, living in East Lucas township, at Terrell's mill on the Iowa river , north of Iowa City , was born April 14, 1805 , in Caroline county, Virginia. He was educated at the public schools in Virginia . He was the owner of Terrell's mill, built by him in 1843. The main building is 22x40, three stories high, the other additions have been built since. It has three run of four-foot burrs, and three runs of three and a half foot burrs. All the machinery in this mill is of the very latest improvement. Mr. Terrell sold this property to Jacob Sam in 1867, and after a few years it passed into other hands, and at the time the bank washed out in October, 1881, it was owned by Jacob J. Deitz and Joseph Hemmer of Iowa City . The dam is perfectly sound and in fair condition. The cut in the bank draws the water away from the mill, and business at the mill was suspended. The mill was sold on a foreclosure of a mortgage, and bought by Mrs. and Miss Terrell for $4,000. Before the washout the parties that owned the mill asked $32,000 for it and the water privileges. It was the first dam across the Iowa river . The privilege of erecting a mill and using water power was granted Mr. Terrell by the territorial legislature of Iowa . He was married in 1850 to Miss M. T. Crew of Mt. Pleasant , Iowa . They had one child, a daughter, Mary A. His wife died August 13, 1853 , and May 4, 1854 , he was married to Miss J. T. Crew of Mt. Pleasant , Iowa . He is independent in politics, never held an office in his life, and has lived the life of a private citizen in the extreme sense of the word. He was engaged in civil engineering in the early part of his business life on a great many railroads in Indiana and Illinois . This brief sketch hardly does justice to Mr. Terrell, but his extreme modesty came near preventing us getting as much for this history as we have. He is one of the very earliest settlers in Johnson county, and made some of the finest public improvements by way of providing a good mill for the public. TOTOKONOK submitted by Darrell Manrique TOTOKONOK — pronounced To-to-ko-nok — was a minor civil chief, who had his village opposite the mouth of the English river, in Fremont township. Little is known of him, beyond the fact that he sympathized with Black Hawk in his war against the whites, and prophesied success for him. And finally, rather than submit to Keokuk's rule, as required by the treaty of 1838, he left his native tribe and went to the Winnebagoes. He seems to have got along very peaceably with his white neighbors in Johnson county. EDWARD TUDOR submitted by Stephen David Williams EDWARD TUDOR,
a resident of Iowa City, and interested in the pork packing-house, and
other public enterprises in the city; was born March 6, 1825, in Wales;
settled in Johnson county, Iowa, in April, 1845, on Old Man's Creek;
has been engaged in farming and stock-raising. He was married September
16, 1863, to Miss Elizabeth Baxter, of Sharon township. They have four
children: Mary J., Elizabeth Ruth, wife of Evan Rowland of Union township;
Cyrus and Richard B. He is a republican in politics, and a member of
the board of supervisors of Johnson county in 1869; has been trustee
of township, and secretary of the school board. He is a stockholder
and one of the directors of the packing-house in Iowa City. He is a
member of the Congregational Church on Old Man's Creek. |