DeWitt, IA

DE WITT, a small post-village, capital of Clinton county, Iowa, 70 miles E. N. E. from Iowa city, and 4 miles N. from the Wapsipinicon river.  (Baldwin's New and Complete Gazetteer of the United States..., 1854)

DEWITT, the county seat, is on the C. & N. W. R. W., 20 miles west of Clinton. It is on a high prairie, and is surrounded by a very fine farming country. A large amount of grain is shipped annually from this point. It contains four churches, seven groceries, six general stores, three drug stores, two hardware stores, two flour mills and one brewery. The DeWitt Observer is published weekly. Population, about 1,200.  (Hair's Iowa State Gazetteer..., 1865)