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History of Cass County, Iowa
Continental Historical Company
Springfield, ILL; 1884

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                             BEAR GROVE TOWNSHIP
                               Early Settlement

          The next settler of Bear Grove was H. B. ROSELLE, who came in the
       spring of 1858. He set out the first orchard in the township,
       bringing the trees from Davenport, which are still living and in a
       thriving condition. The farm is now owned by O. VIERSON, ROSELLE
       having sold out and removed to Cass township, where he still
       resides. During the winter of 1858 and 1859, the house in which Mr.
       ROSELLE lived and which was constructed of rails and hay, burned
       down and it was with difficulty that they escaped alive. He carried
       his wife a mile and a half through the deep snow, bare-footed, to
       the house of OSRO BALDWIN, and nearly perished with cold before
       reaching shelter.

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