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Sioux Rapids, Buena Vista, Iowa, USA

Sioux Rapids was named from the rapids on the Little Sioux River.

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  • 1869 - Sioux Rapids was designated the county seat of Buena Vista County

  • 1876 - The courthouse at Sioux Rapids burned

  • 1878, the county seat was transferred from Sioux Rapids to Storm Lake

  • 1906
    Sioux Rapids, a banking post-town of Buena Vista co., Iowa, on the Little Sioux River, 20 miles N. of Storm Lake and about 60 miles WNW. of Fort Dodge, on the Minneapolis and St. Louise R. and the Northwestern Line. Pop. in 1900, 1005.
    Lippincott's New Gazetteer: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World, Containing the Most Recent and Authentic Information Respecting the Countries, Cities, Towns ... in Every Portion of the Globe Publisher J.B. Lippincott Company, 1906

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male ancestorOrlin Charles GLEASON (11 June 1825, , Connecticut, USA - 27 March 1907, Sioux Rapids, Iowa, USA)
male ancestorMiles MOE (1828, , Ohio, USA - 30 May 1896, Sioux Rapids, Iowa, USA)
male ancestorEdward Richard GLEASON (27 May 1877, Grundy Co., Iowa, USA - 17 November 1936, Sioux Rapids, Iowa, USA)
male ancestorEddie Richard GLEASON (February 5 1908, Sioux Rapids, Iowa, USA - April 25 1989, Waterloo, Iowa, USA)
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