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Near the center of Lincoln Township, on the Jewell & Sanborn division of
the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad system is the incorporated town of
Dolliver. It was surveyed and laid out for the Western Town Lot Company, of
which Marvin Hughitt was president and J. B. Redfield secretary, and the
plat was filed in the office of the county recorder on May 8, 1899, about
the time the railroad was built. On the original plat are shown
seventeen lots east of the railroad tracks marked "Depot Grounds,"
and on the west side of the railroad tracks are six blocks divided into
ninety-seven lots. The east and west streets are Shafter, Main and
Otis, and the north and south streets are Dewey, Schley and Sampson. With
the exception of Main Street all bear the names of United States army and
navy officers in the Spanish-American war. On August 8, 1911, a new survey
was made by A. M. Jefferis by order of the town council.
At the November term of the District Court in 1901 a petition asking for
the incorporation of Dolliver was presented. At that time the town was
only a little over two years old, and as the thirty signers all represented
that they were residents and legal voters in the territory it was proposed
to incorporate, it will be seen that Dolliver had experienced a rather rapid
growth.
When the petition was presented to the court, W. H. Bigelow came in with
an objection. He claimed ownership of the greater part of the east half of
Section 22, Township 100, Range 32, and set forth that there was no
necessity for incorporating so much territory. After hearing both the
petition and remonstrance, the court ordered that Mr. Bigelow's land be
omitted from the plat of the town and appointed T. C. Pier, J. A. Reagan, L.
P. Stillman, C. E. Sullivan and B. B. Elliot commissioners to hold an
election and submit the question of incorporation to the voters. The
election was held on December 17, 1901, when the vote was thirty in favor of
incorporation and only one opposed. On February 5, 1902, the court approved
the report of the commissioners and ordered an election to be held on
Monday, March 31, 1902, for town officers. Returns of this election
were presented to the District Court at the April term, and on April 16,
1902, the court declared the town of Dolliver, for United States Senator
Jonathan P. Dolliver who was a prominent politician when the town was
established in 1900 as a stop on a new railroad line, "duly
incorporated according to the laws of the State of Iowa."
The railroad line on which the town was established was shutdown in the
early 1970s.
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