Person:Amzi Doolittle (4)

Doolittle Family of America, p. 445 (#1103): "at 18 he went prospecting to Sagamon Co., IL with father, farmed five years, rem. to Schuyler Co. for a year. In March 1826 he sett. as farmer on section 2 at Appanouse (Littletown) beind 2d white settler in Hancock Co., (and one of the first in that part of the U.S.), and res. till death at Ft. Madison, IA. There was not a house at Fort M. then and his, built 1832, was first at Burlington. It was burned by soldiers that fall, but he rebuilt next spring. He and bro-in-law Simpson White ran first ferry boats across the Mississippi at Burlington also from Appanoose to Ft. Madison and Amzi sat on p. 446: first jury in Hancock Co.... He later became a large farmer and stock raiser. ... Amzi was in the Winnebago and Black Hawk wars. In the former he hurried his family to a place of safety. They buried household goods in sand, strewed the ground above with corn and fed the hogs, thus obliterating the hiding place... p. 447: He d. at home Oct. 8, 1878 after an illness of several months of cancer of the stomach, and was buried in Fruitland cem.

1. ↑ Doolittle, William F.; Louise Smylie Brown; and Mary Malissa Raison Doolittle. The Doolittle Family in America. (Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland: National Printing (1901), 1901-1967).