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The History of Jackson County, Iowa
pub. Western Historical Company, Chicago - 1879

         [p. 622]
         
         W. SCOTT BELDEN, publisher of the Jackson County Record,
       Maquoketa; is a native of Hornellsville, Steuben Co., N.Y.,
       and was born Sept. 4, 1835; when 17 years of age, he went 
       South, and taught school in Kentucky for four years; he 
       then came to Jackson Co., and arrived in Maquoketa March
       1, 1857, and engaged in the drug trade. He enlisted July
       24, 1861, in Co. L, 2d I. V. C., and was commissioned
       First Lieutenant; he served in the Adjutant General's
       Department for two years, and was in every battle and
       skirmish of the department; he was commissioned Captain
       in August, 1863; after the war he returned here, and in
       the fall of 1865, was elected Sheriff of Jackson Co.; he
       was editor of the Excelsior for seven years; over one 
       year ago, he established the Record. He married Miss
       EVELYN HUMPHREY, from Erie Co., N.Y., Oct. 31, 1874;
       they have one son - HOWARD H., born March 28, 1876.
       
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