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John B. Atkins was born near Detroit, Michigan in 1835. He passed through Council Bluffs on his way west and in 1859 married Lydia B. Allen in Arapahoe County, Colorado. Their daughter Mollie was born in 1861. Their son Henry Charles was born a year after that in New Mexico.

For as long as I've worked at the library this picture has always been labeled Mrs. R. D. Amy, the wife of last month's subject, R. D. Amy. Taking a longer look at the picture I had suspicions. These photographs were taken sometime in the mid to late 1880s, years after Mr.

Jeremiah Folsom was born in New Hampshire in 1817. As a young man he moved to Michigan and in 1840 married Marcia A Hopkins. While in Michigan they had two children, Marcia and Edward. Jeremiah was listed as a glass manufacturer in the 1850 federal census.

So I figured I would do a nice column for our newsletter on the Early Citizens of Council Bluffs. Pull a picture and research our local archives and databases and see what I could find. I started with Henry Allen.