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CHAPTER III. SETTLERS PRIOR TO COUNTY ORGANIZATION. The Mormons of Cass County—The First Gentile Settler—Jeremiah Brad—shaw—Cass County's First Democrat—First Birth of Gentile Child—First Deaths—Pioneer School and Scholars—First Towns and Manufactory—Earliest Settlers Outside the Towns—Unreliable Settlers of Grove Township—Reliable Pioneers–Only His Seventy-fifth Log Cabin—The Byrd Family—Pioneer of Benton Township—How Edna Township Was Named—First Things and Events—“The Early Settlement of Cass County,” by R. D. McGeehon—Obtains a Cook for Fifty-four Years—A Mail Route of ’52–First Winter at Turkey Grove—Getting Food in Pioneer Times—Character of First Settlers—A Typical Pioneer's House—Winter of 1856-7—Fremont Voters of Turkey Grove—War Prices of ’63—A Pioneer's Retrospect.