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Abel, Henry Jr., 529 Adam, Michael, 385 Allen, David E., 400 Allen, Wesley W., 472 Allison, Chester, 365 Ashcraft, A. M., 129 Attig, Levi, 325 Axmear, George W., 68 Axmear, J. C., 66 Axmear, John, Jr., 65 Axmear, John, Sr., 63
Fakehouse, Charles, 537 Baker, De Witt C., 305 Baker, George B., 239 Bamford, Samuel E., 100 Bartow, George L., 141 Partow, George P., 142 Bell, George R., 539 Bermel, John, 218 Besser, Nicholas, 387 Bond, Mrs. Mary J., 482 Bower, Frederick L., 552 Bowman, S. H., 567 Brady, A. C., 470 Bragg, William H., 321 Brice, Robert S., 199 Bridger, Alfred F., 455 Bristow, John H., 375 Brolliar, Lafayette, 464 Brooks, John T., 11
Brown, A. G., 136 Brown, C. M., 203
Brown, Harry G., 136 Brown, Joseph, 303 Brunt, S. W., 120 Bucher, Aaron, 30
Cameron, Ira F., 436
Campbell, John, 270
Carmichael, A. W., 562
Carrell, Eli H., 43
Clark, John, 272 Clarke, John C., 395 Clary, Leonard, 56 Clemens, Ferdinand, 559
Clyde, David G., 378 Coffman, Ralph G., 205 Conner, Jacob, 96 Conner, Samuel, 29
Cover, Ulysses G., 319
Crabb, Curtis, 261 Crocker, Benjamin F., 156
Croneweth, John W., 115 Croneweth. Philip. 115
Delong, Leander, 116 Dildine, Henry T., 373 Dill, Daniel, 398 Dings, Samuel, 207 Doggett. Eugene, 71
Duensing, Henry F., 52
Duke, H. E., 362 Duncan, Jonathan, 277
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Edgerton, Joseph, 371 Eldridge, Madison P., 58 Elliott, George W., 410 Ellis, John M., 179 Engeldinger, John, 213 Etter, William L., 561 Evans, Edward, 395
Follman, Henry, 69 Follman, Louis, 73 Foster, John C., 169 Fritzler, Ellis, 164
Garrett, Andrew, 324
Gemmill, Robert H., 296
Gillfoy, Samuel, 333
Glandon, C. M., 534
Goeldner, Ferdinand L., 127
Goeldner, Hugo F., 112
Goeldner, John F., 111
Goeldner, John G., 127
Goeldner, Theodore L., 564
Greenlee, James A., 312
Greeson, Dayton, 467 Grothe, Henry, 492 Gwin, William W., 264
Halferty, David, 186 Hamilton, James A., 184
Hamilton, Junious, 523
Harding, William E., 255 Harris, J. N. L., 557
Hart, Nancy M., 79 Hawk, Allen, 174
Hawk, Ezra, 170
Hawk, Jacob S., 167 Hawk, Morgan, 208 Heald, Allen, 434 Heaton, Samnel E., 328 Henderson, David N., 426 Henkle, Harmon, 148 Herr, Simon P., 275 Higgins, Warren, 357
Hinnah, William, 489 Hinshaw, Levi S., 348 Hinton, Frank D., 360 Hoge, John, 137 Hoge, Smith B., 138
Holzwarth, John, 383 Humes, W. H., 424 Hurst, A. S., 298
Irons, Charles, 513
Irons, John 510 Irons, Levi, 519
Irons, Warren C., 521
Jacobs, Joseph B., 162
Johnson, Albert P., 236
Johnson, Charles A., 235
Johnson, O. N., 545
Johnston, Curtis G., 134
Jones, David, 484
Jones, Jacob, 442 Jones, John P., 308
Keep, John O., 460
Keiser, Brothers, 504
Keiser, Charles O., 505
Keiser, David, 221
Keiser, Samuel L., 505
Kelley, William R., 97
Kelly, John J., 126
Kelly, Thomas, 126 Kendall, Charles F., 159
Kirkpatrick, S. H., 555
Kirkpatrick, Wade, 181 Kleinschmidt, Gottlieb E. 124
Kramer, Nicholas, 217
Lawrence, O. D., 338 Lawson. William, 352 Lemley, J. W., 493 Lewis, David P., 475 Linder, James, 94
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Marshall, Robert A., 524 Martin, David P., 268 Martin, R. S., 251 McCay, Calvin, 46 McCormick, John H., 92 McDowell, Robert, Sr., 281
McElroy, Joseph K., 242
McFarlane, Daniel C., 392
McKinnis, Charles, 288
McQuaid, Charles E., 103 Meyer, Frederick, 51 Miller, Cap E., 144 Millhouse, H. A., 388 Mohme, Henry J., 544 Morgan, Gilbert S., 20 Morgan, Thomas A., 27 Morrison, James, 197 Morrison, John, 38
Nauman, Charles A., 139 Nanman, Emil D., 141 Neas, Alexander M., 102 Needham, William H .. 501 Nelson, J. M., 411 Newkirk, John O., 514
Newsome, W. W., 344 Newton, Hanno P., 531 Nugent, Claiborne J., 477
Ogden, Irvin, 340 Oldenburg, George, 154 Oliver, Leonard B., 238
Parkhill, Samuel, 34 Payne, John E., 423 Payne, Robert H., 421 Pfannebecker, Henry, 490 Pfannebecker, William, 139 Polke, August, 48 Porter, J. W., 241
Ramsey, John L., 230
Randall, James P., 440
Randolph, J. F., 542
Randolph, John, 495 Rangger, Joseph A., 214
Reed, Charles, 294
Reinert, H. H., 226
Reinert, Michael, 228
Rentfro, James A., 54
Richardson, Brothers, 33
Richardson, Francis P., 480
Richardson, George, 33
Richardson, Gilbert B., 105
Richardson, Joel, 36 Richardson, Jonathan F., 191
Richardson, Joseph M., 118
Richmond, Chauncy. 211
Riggen, John A., 414
Robertson, James B. A .. 23
Rosecrans, Henry C., 335
Sayler, Godfrey, 432 Schiltz, Edward, 74 Schipfer, Brothers, 114 Schipfer, Francis A., 113 Schriever, John W., 541 Schroeder, John, 380 Schwenke, Fred, 49 Scott, Erastus P., 566 Shaffer. William A., 447
Shrader, Ananias A., 267 Singleton, James, 444 Singmaster, Charles F., 503
Singmaster, Samuel, 14 Singmaster, Thomas, 438 Smith, Evan, 366 Smith, Hasadiah, 453 Smith, Thomas, 367 Smith, William E., 448 Smith, William H., 346 Smith, William H., 453 Smock, Finley M., 84 Snakenberg, Charles, 509 Snakenberg, Henry, 548
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Snakenberg, John J., 498 Snakenberg, Louis, 506 Snakenberg, Louis D., 451 Snakenberg, William, 403 Speirs, James R., 194 Stalker, Aaron, 527 Steel, Charles J., 450 Stockman, J. Campbell, 458
Stought, Anthony, 430
Stoutner, John S., 258
Strohmann, Deidrich H., 250
Strohmann, Fred D., 130 Swearingen, James M., 81 Swickard, Daniel, 109
Terrell, Crisley, 90 Terrell, James J., 285 Tresslar, Harvey O., 536 Trumbauer, Charles A., 224
Ulin, A. J., 150 Utterback, A. M., 177 Utterback, Elliott, 146
Utterback, Josiah, 145 Utterback, Landon, 249
Valerius, Matt, 497 Voltmer, David H., 488
Wagamon, William, 377
Wagner, Henry F., 106
Warnock, Alexander, 262 Wenger, Joseph H., 246 Wheeler, Ross S., 391
White, Jonathan F., 406 Whitson, Pertiller, 314
Williams, Harry D., 220 Williams, J. D., 459 Wilson, Wesley W., 404 Wonderlich, Charles C., 278
Woods, William R., 291 Worley, William B., 300 Wyllie, James, 486
Young, William H., 330 Yule, Samuel, 189
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A GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
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KEOKUK COUNTY, IOWA.
HON. JOHN TINLEY BROOKS.
This is a utilitarian age, in which effort must contribute to some line of usefulness whereby may be promoted the welfare of the individual or the public. The marvellous energy and enterprise of the west has brought about a great change in the cities there. This change is the result of the aggregate effort of thousands of enterprising, wide-awake, and in- (lustrions citizens, of which class the gentleman named above is a rep- resentative. He entered upon his business career with little capital, but he possessed determination and a willingness to work. Indolence and idleness constituted no part of his nature, and as his financial resources have increased, he has made judicious investments, which have classed him among the substantial residents of his community. His business methods are progressive. He is systematic in all that he does, and as the architect of his own fortunes he has built wisely and well. As time has passed, the life of Mr. Brooks appealed to his friends as one which was worthy of honor, and he is therefore the honored representative of
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his district in the state senate. Mr. Broooks is actively engaged in the business life of the stirring little city of Hedrick, being at the present time vice-president and cashier of the First National Bank and cashier of the Hedrick State Savings Bank, both in Hedrick.
Mr. Brooks was born October 17. 1850, the place of his birth having been Benton township, Keokuk county, lowa. He is the son of John G. and Mary (Kyger) Brooks. John G. Brooks was a native of Butler county, Ohio, where he was reared to manhood, and came to Keokuk county in 1842. Two years later he permanently located in Benton township, where he passed the life of a highly respected citizen engaged in farming, his death occurring in 1880 at the age of sixty-two years. Until the breaking out of the Civil war he gave allegiance to the prin- ciples of the Democratic party, but on the issues which precipitated that great struggle he followed Abraham Lincoln's principles, for whom he voted in 1865, and thereafter supported the Republican party. He filled some of the minor offices of the township, having been a justice of the peace for a period of years. He was an active member of the Methodist church from boyhood. His marriage to Mary Kyger oc- curred in Butler county when he was in young manhood. She died in 1853. aged about thirty-three years. She bore her husband six chil- dren, viz: Joseph Walker, deceased; Daniel Bigelow, deceased: Eliza- beth, deceased: Samuel K., of Hedrick; John Tinley, subject : and Mary Frances. Joseph Walker Brooks and Daniel Bigelow Brooks, of these children, served in the Civil war. The former enlisted as private in Company F. of the Seventh lowa Volunteer Infantry, in 1861, and was afterward transferred to the Thirty-third Missouri Infantry, as first lieutenant, and as such was in command of his company at Hel- ena. Arkansas, where in battle he was killed July 4. 1863. The latter
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served as a private in the Nineteenth lowa Volunteer Infantry from the summer of 1862 until he was killed in action at Sterling farm, Louisi- ana, in the summer of 1804.
Mr. Brooks was reared in Benton township, and the old home- stead was the scene of the boyhood labors and pleasures in which he indulged, he in the meantime becoming familiar with the branches of study taught in the district school. This was later supplemented by more advanced work in the schools at Sigourney, and at the Iowa Wesleyan University, at Mount Pleasant, where he graduated in 1875. Deciding on the law as a profession, Mr. Brooks then entered the office of Woolson & Babb, at Mount Pleasant, and after finishing the re- quired course of reading passed an examination before the court and was admitted to the bar at Sigourney in 1876. He immediately formed a partnership with Hon. John A. Donnell, with whom he continued in association for five years. While successful in the practice of law, the forces of circumstances and opportunity led him, in 1881, to dis- continue the active practice of law and engage in the banking busi- ness as cashier of the Union Bank at Sigourney. He has, however, maintained his law library and continued his professional studies, though not practicing. In company with Mr. W. H. Young, he bought in 1882 the Waugh farm, in Benton township, and thereon laid out the town of Hedrick. Soon after this, in connection with the same gentleman. Mr. Brooks established the Bank of Hedrick, a private banking institution, which they conducted until 1899, when it was merged into the Hedrick State Savings Bank, and of this our subject has continued as cashier, and Mr. Young is the honored president. In 1900 MIr. Brooks became interested with others in the organization of the First National Bank of Hedrick, of which he is vice-president
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and cashier. Mr. Brooks is also connected with the Hedrick Tele- phone Company as president. He is extensively connected with the real estate and farming interests of the county and takes great in- terest in the raising of fine stock.
The public life of Mr. Brooks has been one of equal activity and interest with his business life. He served a period of ten successive terms as mayor of Hedrick. He has been for seventeen consecutive years the treasurer of the Independent district school board. His political affiliations have always been with the Republican party, in u hose life he has been a tower of strength in the local organization. His standing in the community and the services which he has rendered the party in the past made him a marked man in the conventions of the party as the time passed, but not until 1901 could he be prevailed upon to accept of a nomination. In that year he became a candidate for state senator for the Twelfth senatorial district, and in the election which followed he was chosen to fill that office. Fraternally Mr. Brooks is a Knight Templar Mason. The family life of Mr. Brooks began May 21, 1879, when he chose for a life companion Miss Lucy E. White, daughter of James H. and Emeline White, of Mount Pleas- ant, Iowa, who presides with grace over his pleasant home. She is the mother of four bright and interesting children, namely-Mary, Florence, Alice E. and John W.
SAMUEL SINGMASTER.
No history of Keokuk county would be complete without mention of Samuel Singmaster, who for many years contributed largely to the de- velopment of the county and to its progress and improvement along sub- stantial lines. He was a man whom to know was to respect and honor.
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Without ostentation or display, he lived so as to win the high regard and esteem of all with whom he came in contact. There were no exciting chapters in his life history, yet there was much worthy of emulation, for he was always true to his friends, faithful to his family and reliable and trustworthy in business. He passed away April 18, 1899, and it is safe to say that no death in the community has ever been more deeply regret- ted than that of Samuel Singmaster. He accomplished much in life that yet benefits those who knew him and he left to his family an untarnished name, which is above great riches.
Mr. Singmaster was born in McCungie, Lehigh county, Pennsyl- vania, September 17, 1807, and was therefore ninety-one years of age when called to his final rest. His parents were also natives of Pennsyl- vania and were of German lineage. In their family were eight sons and one daughter. During his early youth Samuel Singmaster labored indus- triously upon his father's farm, receiving but limited educational privileges. Ile served a three-years' apprenticeship in a tannery of Philadelphia and afterward worked for two years in the same establishment for the small salary of seventy-two dollars per year. When twenty-four years of age he accompanied his parents on their removal to Perry county, Pennsy !- vania.
An important event occurred in his life the following year, for he was married in Berks county, Pennsylvania, to Mary C. Seischolts, a young lady then twenty-two years of age. For many years they traveled life's journey together, sharing with each other the joys and sorrows, the adversity and prosperity which checker the careers of all. They reared. too, a family who have been a credit to their name. The year after his marriage Samuel Singmaster and his brother Jacob established a tannery in Millerstown, Perry county, which they conducted successfully for a
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few years, when they sold out and with the proceeds built a larger tan nery in the same town. Their business increased until it enabled them to employ sixty men. However, they sold their second factory in order to build a still greater one and the third one was sold to Mr. Miller, their brother-in-law. He found it impossible to pay promptly and after a time the tannery was destroyed by fire, causing a total loss, as there was no insurance. Mlr. Singmaster and his brother never tried to collect the consideration and therefore they suffered to a considerable extent from the fire.
About that time our subject removed to a more western district in Pennsylvania and turned his attention to farming, purchasing one hun- dred and twenty acres of land, upon which he made partial payments. In speaking of this period of his life he said he had "four work horses with one eye among the whole drove." He possessed a resolute spiri: and determination and from early morning until dewey eve he was found in the fields, and in harvest time he reaped a good crop of wheat, about fifteen hundred bushels. This brought a good price, one dollar and a half per bushel, and enabled him not only to meet his indebtedness, but also to have one thousand dollars clear as his earnings. He then sold his farm and purchased a larger one of one hundred and forty acres, paying one-half of the amount down. A year later he sold this place at a good profit and at that time took up his abode in Millerstown, about thirty miles from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, where he purchased a home worth fifteen hundred dollars. With his remaining capital, and also a smin that he borrowed, he embarked in the cattle business, purchasing (lroves of from sixty to one hundred head of cattle in Ohio and driving them to the Philadelphia market. This enterprise also proved a proht- able one. He also drove some sheep and horses to market, but he found!
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that he could realize nothing off of these and accordingly confined his attention to dealing in cattle. One of the marked characteristics of Mr. Singmaster's career was the readiness with which he recognized that luisiness conditions would prove either profitable or disastrous, and choos- ing, of course, the former, he carried forward his labors until they brought to him a very desirable competence. Attracted by the oppor- tunities of the growing west he made his way to Missouri, in 1842, but finding that he could not obtain a clear title to land in that state he came to lowa. He was pleased with the west and in Keokuk county he pur- chased in 1843 a claim on which were a few hogs and cattle, buying these of George Washington Maley, one of the honored pioneers of the county. He paid fifteen hundred dollars for a tract of land compris- ing three hundred and twenty acres. Returning home he sent out Frank North to take charge of the purchase. In 1844 he sold his real estate in Millerstown for fifteen hundred dollars. Of this amount five hundred dollars was paid in cash and for the remainder he took wooden clocks and leather, but while the family were en route from the Keystone state to Keokuk county, lowa, the weights of the clocks were either lost or stolen between Pittsburg and Burlington, and in consequence the time- pieces sold for a mere trifle. He retailed the clocks and leather among his neighbors in lowa, but as he gave credit to many new acquaintances he afterward found that it was difficult to make collections. Hle how- ever brought with him one thousand dollars, which in 1844 he invested in calves, and thus he became one of the first cattle dealers of Keokuk county. He was assisted in his work by his son Charles and it was a noticeable fact concerning the family history that the father and sons always worked together in entire harmony, continuing business as a family affair through many years. For a long period Mr. Singmaster
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carried on his stockraising interests with success. His first large sale was hundred head of cattle, which brought him twenty-five hundred dol- lars. His first home was a primitive log cabin, such as was common in pioneer times, and after he had made his sale of the one hundred head of cattle he had his sons haul lumber from lowa City, with which he erected a larger and more modern residence, which remained his home until his death. AAs time advanced his profits increased, he made judi- cious investments in real estate, becoming one of the most extensive land owners of this part of Iowa. The business was conducted by the father and sons until the time of the death of William Singmaster, his youngest son, in 1891. When Charles, another son, arrived at the age of fifty-two years, his father deeded to him eight hundred acres of land on which he yet resides, while the son Thomas remained in partnership with the father until the latter's demise. The Singmasters probably became more widely known through their importations of fine horses than in any other of their business transactions. In 1875 the firm be- gan business in this way, William and Charles having charge of the enterprise while the father furnished the capital. In that year they im- ported four head of horses and gradually increased the number until their importations were very extensive, and between the years 1884 and 1888 each son imported from eighty to one hundred and forty head.
When Mr. Singmaster removed to Iowa, the family consisted of himself, wife, and five children, namely : Charles F., born February 29. 1834; Sarah, born June 15, 1836; Eliza, born March 9, 1838; Thomas, born Febrbuary 16, 1840; and James, born July 4, 1842, died on June 16, 1866. The same year another child, Henry, was added to the fam- ily. He was born October 18, 1844, and died December 18, 1845. Will-
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iam was born April 16, 1848, and died in Keokuk county, April 17. 1891. Mary Etta, born December 18, 1849, was married October 22, 1878, to Conrad Ramge, and died February 20, 1898. On the 13th of September, 1853. Eliza was also called to her final rest. Three of the children are still living. Charles F., whose personal sketch appears else- where; Sarah, the only surviving daughter, is the wife of David Keiser, of Keota ; and Thomas, the other surviving member of the family, is represented on another page of this work. Mrs. Singmaster passed away a few years prior to the death of her husband. She was born in Pennsyl- vania, July 15, 1810, and died December 17, 1894, at the advanced age of eighty-four years.
Mr. Singmaster departed this life April 18, 1899, when more than ninety-one years of age, dying after a three weeks' illness of la grippe. From the obituary notice which appeared in one of the local papers, we (note the following because of the estimate it gives of the life and char- acter of him of whom we write:
"What can I say of Samuel Singmaster? You have all known him. You have all loved him. You have all respected and honored him. He was a man through and through-every inch a man. He was held in the greatest esteem by his neighbors, friends and acquaintances. Such an ideal estimation is truly coveted by all. The deceased was a man in whom all sought counsel in time of trouble. He never faltered in responding as a wise counselor to a troublesome or vexed problem of a neighbor."
In the family Mr. Singmaster was a most devoted husband and father, and to his friends he was ever loyal and true, while his business associates found him to be reliable, trustworthy and courteous. All who knew him had for him the highest respect, and his memory is yet en- shirined in the hearts of many with whom he was associated. 2
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GILBERT S. MORGAN.
Almost fifty years have passed since this gentleman arrived in Keokuk county and he is justly numbered among her honored pioneers and leading citizens, his home being in Adams township. As an agri- culturalist he has been prominently identified with her np-building and development. His is an honorable record of a conscientious man, who by his upright life has won the confidence of all with whom he has come in contact.
His father, Hon. Theron Avery Morgan, was one of the prominent citizens of this locality in early days. He was born in Massachusetts in January, 1809, and was principally reared in that state. From there he removed to Ohio and in 1854 came to Jowa, locating in Keokuk conn- ty, where he entered land from the government and improved the farm on which our subject now lives. In early life he married Sylvia Mal- lory, also a native of Massachusetts, and to them were born five cliil- dren, all of whom reached man and womanhood. Both parents lived to a ripe old age, the mother being eighty-one at the time of her death, and the father ninety-two. Some idea of the high esteem in which he was held by his fellow citizens can be gathered from an obituary published at the time of his death, which is as follows :
"At the little village of Webster. Keokuk county, at ten o'clock. February 6, 1901, occurred the funeral services of the Hon. Theron Avery Morgan. While the bells of the village church were tolling and the people were gathering from all the country-side to pay their last respects to one of their oldest citizens, the funeral carriages were driven from the home of Gilbert S. Morgan to the Methodist church of Web- ster. It was this farm from which he took his last journey, that a half century ago Mr. Morgan, then in the prime of vigorous manhood, en-
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tered as a homestead, and it was from then that his life became closely mingled with the early life and development of Keokuk county. At the church the services were conducted by the Rev. Smith of the Methodist Episcopal church, assisted by the Rev. Matlock of the Congregational church. Among those gathered there were men who when they, beard- less boys of twenty, had marched out to defend the Union, had spoken of the then gray-bearded Lieutenant Morgan as "Father Morgan." Rugged men with heads of gray were assembled to pay a last token of respect to their fathers' old friend and contemporary. Rev. Smith spoke of Mr. Morgan's life in Keokuk county, how in social life, in phil- anthropy and in politics he had ever represented that which was noblest and best. He dwelt upon the strength, purity and nobility of the life which had given of its vigor to uphold and support our legislature in those days in the '50s and 'Gos when men of strength were needed. Men and women were present who knew of the unselfishness and practical Christianity of his life as a neighbor. Men were present who knew of his sterling integrity and steadfast honor in political life and in posi- tions of public trust. Children and grandchildren were present who knew of the sweet, unselfish nobility of his family life, which constitutes true greatness. The relatives present were Mrs. Victoria Morgan, of Grand Junction ; Mrs. Mary M. Griswold, of Ottumwa; Mr. and Mrs. G. S. Morgan, of Webster. The grandchildren present were Misses Daisy and Mary Griswold, Morgan Griswold and George O. Griswold and Mrs. W. T. Wilson of Ottumwa ; Avery Morgan, of Washington ; Mr. and Mrs. William Montz, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Cook, Mr. and Mrs. William Heaton and Alden Morgan, of Webster. Among others from abroad were Mrs. John M'Donnough, of New Sharon ; and Theron Mor- gan of South English. The pall bearers were D. P. Brown, Alex
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