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Welcome to Fremont
County Iowa Genealogy Research
Cromwell House circa 1900
My name is Bob
Jenkins and I created this
website to provide genealogy
information and links to genealogy
information to assist people in
researching
their Fremont County Iowa
ancestors.
I would appreciate any
contribution that you would like to
make to this site:
biographies, obituaries, birth,
marriage, death info, grave info,
photographs....etc
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Use the box below to
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Fremont
County Data
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Brief
History:
The present county
seat was selected May 10, 1851. Dr.
Wm. Dewey was appointed by the
commissioners to plat the
town site, which with the
assistance of Henry Way, was
finished May 27, 1851, and the sale
of lots took place June 30,
1851, the first lot being sold
to Stephen Cromwell.
Sidney was laid out in 1851
and was originally to be named
Dayton. The
land for the Town of Sidney was
purchased
from Milton and Jane
Richards in 1851.
The survyeors were boarding with the
Richards family. Richards wife
suggested they rename the city
for her hometown
of Sidney,
Ohio. The town was
platted and modeled on the lines
of the Ohio town.
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