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- U.S. General Land Office Records, 1796-1907
Name: John Corse
Issue Date: 25 May 1824
Acres: 80
Meridian: 2nd PM
State: Indiana
County: Fountain
Township: 19-N
Range: 7-W
Section: 17
Accession Number: IN0900__.403
Metes and Bounds: No
Land Office: Crawfordsville
Canceled: No
US Reservations: No
Mineral Reservations: No
Authority: April 24, 1820: Sale-Cash Entry (3 Stat. 566)
Document Number: 1961
1830 United States Federal Census
Name: John Corle[John Corse]
Home in 1830 (City, County, State): Fountain, Indiana
Free White Persons - Males - 20 thru 29: 1
Free White Persons - Males - 30 thru 39: 1
Free White Persons - Females - Under 5: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 20 thru 29: 1
Free White Persons - Under 20: 1
Free White Persons - 20 thru 49: 3
Total Free White Persons: 4
Total - All Persons (Free White, Slaves, Free Colored): 4
John CORSE
Beckwith, H. W. History of Fountain County, Indiana. Chicago: HH Hill, 1881, p. 80.
John CORSE had already been mentioned in connection with his office as sheriff of the county. He came to the county in the spring of 1824, and built the first mill in Van Buren Township. The neighbors for miles around assisted in building the mill, and Mr. Corse agred that the one who did the most work on the mill should have the first grist ground on it. Mr. Joseph GLASCOCK was the lucky man. All who helped in building the mill were paid for their work in grinding their corn. Mr. Corse, is said by one who knew him, to have been "a quiet, just and honorable man." He died in 1843.
Annals of Iowa
Volume Il, No. 1,
Des Moines, Iowa City,
April 1895, Third Series
MAJOR-GENERAL JOHN M. CORSE
By The Rev. William Salter, D.D.
Pages 2-20
John Lockwood Corse, the father of General Corse, was a native of Dover, Delaware, and was born March 5, 1813; he was the son of Hanson Corse, and grandson of Captain John Corse, a soldier of the Revolution. He learned the carriage making business in Philadelphia, where he married Sarah, daughter of John Murray, whose family was related to that of John Marshall, Chief Justice U. S. She was a woman of superior worth, blending grace and strength of character in fine proportions. Soon after their marriage they removed to Pittsburg, Penn., where their son was born. They subsequently resided in St. Louis, Mo., and Belleville, Ill., and in 1842 came to Burlington, Iowa Territory, where Mr. Corse was a prominent citizen all his life. He was a man of industry, enterprise and public spirit, and was engaged for many years in the book and stationery business. Enjoying the respect and confidence of his fellow citizens, he was six times chosen mayor of the city, viz: in 1845, 1846, 1856, 1857, 1866 and 1867, and also served several years as one of the aldermen. He was representative from Des Moines county in the Second General Assembly of that State 1848-50, and in the Fifth General Assembly, 1854-1856. A warm personal friend of the Hon. A. C. Dodge, United States Senator from Iowa, that gentleman, in 1853, secured an appointment to the United States Military Academy for his son, then eighteen years old.
CORSE, John Family
Source: Iva Lewis Obituary Scrapbook
A MYSTERY CLEARED
Among the early settlers of this county was John Corse, a prominent citizen who lived at the old Hinds mill. He had three daughters. Mr. Corse died and some time afterwards his wife married again. One night the oldest girl, Lydia, and her sister, Eliza, were sleeping up stairs and in the morning when their mother called them Lydia awoke and thinking her sister had already arose, went down stairs. Her mother enquired for Eliza and they thinking she had gone out doors, prepared breakfast, and called for her. They had just begun to become alarmed when Mr. McGonigal (Mrs. Corse's second husband) came in with a note written in Eliza's hand writing, that he said he found under the scoop shovel in the wagon. It said for her mother not to worry about her as she was going where she would be treated right. That was the last heard of the girl. Excitement was high and there were many reports of a sensational nature. The family left here soon afterward and the mysterious disapearence of Eliza Corse has often been discussed by the older settlers. Recently the younger daughter found her sister and not knowing that Uncle Bob Coats was dead wrote him the following letter, which explains all: . OSKALOOSA, IOWA, Oct. 13, '99. Mr. W. R. COATS, Veedersburg, Dear Friend: I suppose you will be surprised on receiving this. I will tell you who I am. I am a daughter of John Corse, who was a neighbor of your father's for several years. I am the one younger than Lydia. The reason I write to you is to clear up a mystery in connection with my sister Eliza. She left home very mysteriously in 1853 and we never heard a word from her until a short time ago. She left her home and was married to a young man by the name of Jason Brown, known by the nickname of "Jim" Brown, who lived near Covington, in the same neighberhood that Joseph Evans lived. They went to Illinois and lived there until 1856, when they moved to Missouri and have lived in Schuyler county ever since. It is not a hundred miles from where we have lived since 1856, and we never heard a word of her in all these long years. I think the reason she never wrote was because Brown got very mad at my stepfather, Charles McGonigal, and he never got over it. Eliza died in March, 1897 and Brown died last January. They never had bat one child, a daughter, and after her father died she began to hunt us. She had a time of it, but finally through the post master found J. H Evans at ??.. us. She is married and has a son 19 years old. Her name is Dora Bunch, her address is Lancaster Mo. She went to Burlington and made Evans a visit and Evans came with her and they made me a visit and just left a few days ago. Dora is finely educated and very much of a lady. They are well to do, have plenty of property. Eliza has been a member of the Christian Church for thirty or forty years. Dora says Eliza lived as clean, pure a life as any woman ever did. She was willing to die and she thinks she is in Heaven. Dora and her son are members of the Christian church. We were so glad to hear from Eliza, if it had been so long. My brother, Will Corse, died in California last November. He was thrown from a horse and injured internally and only lived three or four days afterward J. H. Evans looks young and is quite spry on foot; he is nearly 80. I have two children, a boy and a girl. I will send you my photo soon and see if you remember me. My brother, Daniel, is in Kansas City Mo.; he never married. If there is anyone in your place who remembers us and would like to hear tell them what I have written. If you care to hear more if you will write I will answer you. I am Your Friend, JENNIE CORSE MENDENHALL. ? jlr
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Abt 1782 - 1848 (~ 66 years)
