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Burlington, Iowa, was founded in 1833, shortly after the Blackhawk Purchase opened the area for settlement. John B. Gray, the first American to purchase a lot in the settlement, named it for his former home, Burlington, Vermont. Prior to this, the area was neutral territory for the Sac and Fox Indians, who called it "Shoquoquon" (Shok-ko-kon), meaning Flint Hills. From 1838 to 1840, Burlington was the first capital of the Iowa Territory.
Burlington's first newspaper, The Wisconsin Territorial Gazette and Burlington Advertiser, was established four years later on July 10, 1837, under the direction of James Clarke, publisher, and Cyrus Jacobs. Jacobs was later killed in a duel with local attorney David Rorer. Clarke became mayor of Burlington and was appointed the last governor of the Iowa Territory. After his stint as governor, he returned to run the Gazette and was elected the first president of the Burlington School Board. He died at age 38 in a local cholera epidemic on July 28, 1850. Rorer was one of his pall bearers.
A second newspaper, the Iowa Patriot, was established in Burlington in 1838. Shortly thereafter, at Rorer's suggestion, publisher James G. Edwards changed the Patriot's name to The Hawk-Eye and Iowa Patriot in tribute to his friend Chief Black Hawk. Nearly a century later, O.N. Custer of Galesburg purchased and merged the two newspapers and renamed the publication The Hawk-Eye Gazette.
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