Douglas ( and Atchison ) had assumed that Nebraska would be settled by Free-State men from Iowa and Illinois, and Kansas by pro-slavery Missourians and other Southerners, thus preserving the numerical balance between free states and slave states.

Cleveland was among the leaders in early support, but Thomas F. Bayard of Delaware, Allen G. Thurman of Ohio, Samuel Freeman Miller of Iowa, and Benjamin Butler of Massachusetts also had considerable followings, along with various favorite sons.

When drafting the resolution, the Utah Legislature gave many reasons to recognize Jell-O, including that Utah had been the highest per capita consumer of Jell-O for many years, and how citizens of Utah had rallied to " Take Back the Title " after Des Moines, Iowa exceeded Utah in Jell-O consumption in 1999.

Iowa Sen. Augustus C. Dodge immediately reintroduced the same legislation to organize Nebraska that had stalled in the previous session ; it was referred to Douglas ’ s committee on December 14.

Although she had been a quite accomplished runner, the victory of El Moutawakel, who studied at Iowa State University at the time, was a surprise.

By 1920, a systematic program of extension work throughout northeast Iowa had begun, with Upper Iowa referred to as " a pioneer in the field.

* April 12 – By a vote of 45 – 41, the United States Senate unseats Iowa Senator Smith W. Brookhart and seats Daniel F. Steck, after Brookhart had already served for over one year.

Lincoln's ties to Council Bluffs were furthered strengthened by the fact that he had won the 1860 Republican nomination on the third ballot when the Iowa delegation switched its vote to him.

Going into the convention, the two leading candidates for the nomination were former Congressman Bland, who had originated the Bland-Allison Act, and former Iowa Governor Horace Boies, with Bland considered the frontrunner.

Cities in the United States possessing side-by-side water towers labeled HOT and COLD include Granger, Iowa, Canton, Kansas, and St. James, Missouri ( Eveleth, Minnesota at one time had two such towers, but no longer does ).

In 1937, while in the process of opening a second store in Mason City, Iowa it was learned that another company had already registered the name “ Payless ” in the state.

As Holly's group had been the backing band for all of the acts, Holly, Valens and Dion DiMucci ( of Dion and the Belmonts ) took turns playing drums for each other at the Green Bay, Wisconsin, and Clear Lake, Iowa, shows.

Iowa, Milwaukee, Tennessee Valley ( which changed its name to Alabama to reflect the state, rather than the region ), Oklahoma City, Tulsa, Bossier-Shreveport, and Spokane all seamlessly moved to the new AFL to join " old " AFL teams Arizona, Orlando, Tampa Bay, Chicago, and Cleveland, along with expansion teams in Dallas and Jacksonville, and the AIFA team in Utah which had originally been in the old AFL.

He hired a new coach, Tim Floyd, who had run a successful program at Iowa State University.

In 1944, Siegel married Martha Baird ( University of Iowa ), who had begun studying in his classes the year before.

After 34 days of Iowa mud pits, sand drifts in Nevada and Utah, overheated radiators, flooded roads, cracked axles, and enthusiastic greetings in every town that thought it had a chance of being on the new highway, the tour arrived for a parade down San Francisco's Market Street before thousands of cheering residents.

Although there had been some missteps in his career up to that point, in 1907 Edwin Earhart's job as a claims officer for the Rock Island Railroad led to a transfer to Des Moines, Iowa.

He had to change trains in Mankato to reach Rock Rapids, Iowa, going from South Bend via Chicago for a speaking engagement.

Fort Ripley was built ostensibly to protect the Winnebago Indians, who had been relocated by Henry Rice from Iowa to central Minnesota west of the Mississippi River, between the Crow Wing and Long Prairie rivers.

Following the resolution of Honeywell v. Sperry Rand, Atanasoff was warmly honored by Iowa State College, which had since become Iowa State University, and more awards followed.

By the time the county was reestablished on February 26, 1857, John Duncombe of Fort Dodge ( namesake of Duncombe, Iowa ) had tricked Humboldt County into cedeing the southern four townships ( Jackson, Deer Creek, Badger, Newark ) to Webster County " on loan ".

By 1999, Iowa had an unprecedented $ 900 million budget surplus.

In 1890, Carver started studying art and piano at Simpson College in Indianola, Iowa.

The Amana Colonies were communal settlements in Iowa, started by radical German pietists, which lasted from 1855 to 1932.

In 1984 to present, UIU expanded to open locations across the U. S. Upper Iowa was approved by North Central to offer graduate degrees in 1995, and in 1999 started its International Program by establishing centers in Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, and Vancouver, Canada. The Andres Center for Business and Education was built in 2004

Profile of the Pacific Railroad from Council Bluffs / Omaha to San FranciscoThe Union Pacific's of track started at MP 0. 0 in Council Bluffs, Iowa on the eastern side of the Missouri River, the location of its Transfer Depot where up to seven railroads could transfer mail and other goods to Union Pacific trains bound for the west from which they then crossed the river over the Union Pacific Missouri River Bridge ( opened in 1873 ) to Omaha, Nebraska.

Some settlers started drifting into Iowa in 1833.

In 1876, when Iowa no longer needed an orphan home, legislators Edward G. Miller and H. C. Hemenway started the Iowa State Normal School.

During college, Conrad started cartooning at the University of Iowa for the Daily Iowan.

In 1935 Harris, age 20, started dating 16-year-old Olive E. Goodlow ( Ollie ) of neighboring Council Bluffs, Iowa, who came to Omaha to watch him perform.

Bert and Al Pettit who came from Iowa in 1879 and 1880, respectively, later purchased Mr. Stewart's elevator and started the Pettit Grain and Potato Company, which became a large and important business in Central Minnesota.

It was part of a large outbreak of storms that started the evening before with tornadoes also touching down in Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, and Minnesota.

A close friend, Donald Kaul, lured Anton back to Iowa each year beginning in 1974 to ride his bicycle across the state in RAGBRAI, now the world's largest bicycle ride, which Kaul and John Karras started in 1973.

Gephardt ran hard and early in 1987 – 88 and finally started moving ahead in Iowa after running the " Hyundai ad " that criticized what he thought were unfair trade barriers by Korea and Japan.

One example is the Iowa DNR, and their Turn In Poachers ( TIP ) Program which was started in August 1985.

Sibley started his political career in 1838 when he was appointed the first Justice of the Peace west of the Mississippi River by the governor of Iowa Territory, John Chambers.

Iowa started the 1982 season with an 0 – 2 record, but the Hawkeyes compiled a 6 – 2 record in the Big Ten to earn a berth in the Peach Bowl.

The Hawks bounced right back in 1990, as Iowa started the season with a 7 – 1 record.

Iowa cattle rancher Warren Gammon capitalized on the idea of breeding Polled Herefords and started the Polled Hereford registry with 11 naturally polled cattle.

More stores were started, and in 1938, the company incorporated into Hyde & Vredenburg, Inc. Hyde & Vredenburg had 15 stores in Iowa and Missouri at that point.

Zambrano started the 2002 season with the AAA Iowa Cubs, but was quickly called up to the big leagues where he was dispatched to the bullpen and pitched in sixteen games during the first three months of the season.

Belknap moved to Iowa and started a law practice and partnership.

When the American War Between the States started, Belknap, a loyal Democrat, joined the Union Army in the Autumn of 1861 and was commissioned Major in charge recruiting the 15th Iowa Volunteer Infantry on December 7.

Schism started out as the fanzine, Love Seat, which Brown put out while still living in Iowa.

The company started growing in the 1920s by acquiring other department stores throughout Iowa, including Wilkins Department Stores ( 1923 ), Harris-Emery ( 1927 ), and J. Mandelbaum and Sons ( 1928 ).