As of 4/1/25, the library has run out of zoo passes. We will announce in the future if there is another giveaway. Those who were able to receive a pass have until 5/22/25 to use them!
John Baptiste Beno was born in 1843 in Alsace, France. In 1850 his family came to America and settled in St. Louis, Missouri. In 1861 John moved to Council Bluffs and lived with a brother who had moved here before him.
Cornelius Voorhis was born in 1813 in Lebanon, Ohio. When he was young he moved to Springfield, Ohio and started a mercantile business. Here he met and married Minerva McCoy.
William Henry Mills Pusey was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania in 1826. He graduated from college in 1847 and then studied law in Pittsburg and Springfield, IL.
Henry H. and Lavinia Oberholtzer were both born in Pennsylvania. Henry in 1825 and Lavinia Reist in 1834. When Lavinia was 20 years old she married Henry and a year later they were in Council Bluffs.
