HISTORY OF THE BUILDING PRESENTLY AT 124 EAST SECOND STREET
Courtesy of Kathy Keane
1840 First mention of property. Dorance Matthews rented land to Thomas B. Johnson and Hiram Matthews for $50.00 a year.
1843 Dorance H. Matthews and his wife sell property to Lyne Starling for $1,000.
1844 Lyne Starling sells property to John B. Dougherty.
1875 Dourherty dies and estate goes to his widow, Orpha M. Dougherty and his children: John B. Dougherty, Robert M. Dougherty, Ada J. McClelland, Callie Dougherty, and James G. Dougherty.
1875-1891 Many of the Dougherty family die.
1891 Orpha M. Dougherty sells/assigns the use of a wall to Bertha Brossheim.
1900

Orpha M. Dougherty dies and leaves building to son James G. Dougherty because "my daughter Callie said she wanted James to have it if she died first."
Building was home of a Drug Store sometime during this period.
1901 Appraised value to settle inheritance clam was $6,500.
1904-1905 During these years there was a huge law suit filed by descendants claiming owndership of the property. Suit was found invalid in 1905.
1909 Property sold to James G. Dougherty for $8,000.
1909 James G. Dougherty sold rights to a "division" wall to Sarah E. Bilkey.
1923 James G. Dougherty and Gertrude D. Dougherty sold property to Leonard M. Fuller for $9.000 at 6% interest.
1923 James G. Dougherty assigned Fuller mortgage to First Trust & Savings Bank, Muscatine, Iowa.
1929 Mortgage released by First Trust & Savings Bank, signed by E.E. Bloom, Cashier.
1939 Reference that the property was referred to as the Fuller Grocery Store and the taxes for the year were $437.82.
1940 Loenard M and Marie C. Fuller sell property to C.C. Hakes & Co. for $7,750 at 4 1/2% interest.
1941 Reference that taxes on the property were $458.64
1942 Leonard M. and Marie C. Fuller sell property to Henry G. and Felicitas Detthof. The property is referred to as the Detthof Hardware Company.
1948 Henry G. Detthof dies and leaves property to Felicitas and the building is valued at $18,000 for estate purposes.
1950 Felicitas Detthof dies and leaves real estate to daughers, Mildred M. Fogarty, Dorothy Daily, and Agatha A. Detthof.
1953 Account book for Coder Hardware Store found, first reference is 1953. Hardware store may have been open before that date.
1960 George and Stella Silberhorn purchased entire business inventory in basement and first floor from Kenneth Coder for $19,293 and started Silberhorn Hardware.
1970 Mildren M. Fogarty (widow), Agatha A. Detthof (single), and Dorothy M. and John A. Daily, sell the property to George A. and Stella G. Silberhorn.
1999 George A. Silberhorn dies and leaves property to his two sons.
2000 Property sold to Historic Muscatine, Inc.
2002

Sharon and Tom Savage establish a bookstore: Muscatine Books & More.