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William Henry Mills Pusey was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania in 1826. He graduated from college in 1847 and then studied law in Pittsburg and Springfield, IL.

Henry F. Plumer was born October 8, 1828 in Hanover Germany. When he was twelve his family immigrated to America and settled in Missouri.

Sophia was born in 1835 in Ohio, the daughter of German immigrants.

Henry H. and Lavinia Oberholtzer were both born in Pennsylvania. Henry in 1825 and Lavinia Reist in 1834. When Lavinia was 20 years old she married Henry and a year later they were in Council Bluffs.

J. J. and Eliza Newton arrived in Council Bluffs in 1858. They made their way from Iowa City with an ox team.

William Wirt Maynard came to Council Bluffs in 1854 along with Jeremiah Folsom. The two men walked from Michigan and brought a large herd of sheep with them.

With his paints in one hand and a rifle in the other, Col. John D. Pusey lived life on the vanguard both literally and artistically.

Joseph Lyman was born in 1840 in Lyon, Michigan. His family moved to Defiance, Ohio where Joseph grew up. He graduated from high school in 1856 and began teaching school at the age of 16.
Joseph received a scholarship to West Point but turned it down to study law.

John Keller was born in 1815 in France. He came to America in 1836 with his brother. After an apprenticeship in cabinet making he started to make his way west. First to Cincinnati, OH, then St. Louis, MO and by 1850 to Weston, MO.

Timothy Joiner was born September

Thomas Jefferis was born in 1828 in Newcastle County, Delaware. He came to Council Bluffs in 1853. He worked here a few years, then in 1857, he returned to Delaware and married Anna Cook. Anna was born in 1839 in Ireland.

Martin Hardin was born in 1826 and grew up on the family farm in Kentucky.

Francis Guittar had a life that should have been written down. Unfortunately we only have a few stories told later in life.