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词条 Lanyon, Iowa
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  1. History

  2. Notable residents and natives

  3. References

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Lanyon is an unincorporated community in Lost Grove Township in Webster County, Iowa, United States. It is located 17 miles south of the county seat of Fort Dodge, 2.65 miles south and 1 mile west of Harcourt (on U.S. Highway 169), and 3.3 miles north and 4.5 miles west of Boxholm. It consists of seven blocks, bounded on the north by 390th Street, and on the east by Lanyon Avenue. It includes the Evangelical Covenant Church, founded in 1877 and located in Lanyon since 1909.

Its elevation is 1,171 feet (357 m).[1]

History

The community was founded by Swedish emigrants,[2] part of a migration from Knox County, Illinois in the 1860s.[3]

It is located on the diagonal route of a former interurban railroad between Boone and Rockwell City, which was used by the Fort Dodge, Des Moines and Southern Railroad until the 1960s.[4] A station at Layton was opened in 1899 to serve a railway laid that year by the Marshalltown and Dakota Railroad Company to carry coal mined near Fraser northwest to connections at Gowrie.[5] A Lanyon Post Office was established in 1900,[6] the Lanyon Mutual Telephone Company was established in 1903, and the Bank of Lanyon, Lanyon Well Company, and (until the early 1960s) Lanyon Consolidated School. Lanyon is now within the Prairie Valley Community School District.

Notable residents and natives

  • George E.Q. Johnson, United States Attorney for the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois who successfully prosecuted Al Capone for tax evasion
  • Jon Lindgren, Mayor of Fargo, North Dakota from 1978 to 1994, the second longest–serving mayor of Fargo.

References

1. ^{{gnis|458228}}, Geographic Names Information System, April 30, 1979. Accessed April 8, 2008.
2. ^Jonathan Eig, “[https://books.google.com/books?id=I48z-9NgqAoC&pg=PA68&dq=lanyon,+iowa&hl=en&ei=2u5hTYL2EsT48AaAnZzuCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CCoQ6AEwATgK#v=onepage&q=lanyon%2C%20iowa&f=false Get Capone: the secret plot that captured America's most wanted gangster],” p. 68 (2010).
3. ^Tom Savage, “[https://books.google.com/books?id=DxagLIZHNv4C&pg=PA127&dq=lanyon,+iowa&hl=en&ei=8_BhTZ3EJ8H68Ab5tfTSCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CDcQ6AEwAzgK#v=onepage&q=lanyon%2C%20iowa&f=false A Dictionary of Iowa Place Names],” pp. 127-28 (2007).
4. ^The Fort Dodge, Des Moines and Southern Railroad, accessed February 20, 2011.
5. ^"Fort Dodge Line Traced Back to 1893," Boone News-Republican, September 15, 1965 at p. 10; "Complete New Line," Daily Iowa Capitol, November 17, 1899 at p. 7.
6. ^"Iowa Happenings at Washington," Des Moines Leader, January 25, 1900 at p.2.
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