The community was named for the Connecticut poet and writer Lydia Huntley Sigourney. The site for the town was selected as the future county seat in 1844 for the usual reason that it was near the geographic center of the county.
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Print Source
Buildings of Iowa, David Gebhard and Gerald Mansheim, New York: Oxford University Press, 1993, 293-293.