It was in the fall of 1857, when Iowa was inviting settlers upon her broad fertile prairies that John Switzer and wife, with a family of ten children, left Union Bridge, Carroll County to follow the Star of empire westward.
MIDDLETOWN, N.Y. – Five furnishings by Vladimir Kagan that once decorated Apartment 30 of the legendary Dakota apartment building in New York City, a Pablo Picasso vase for Madoura and a .
Brigadier Gen. William B. Mason III, right, pins the Purple Heart medal onto the chest of Army Specialist Alvin Alce in front of a capacity crowd Monday at the Harvey