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master's Department, and the following year worked on a rented farm. In No- vember, 1866. he came to Ringgold County, when he bought 120 acres, and at once commenced improving bis land. He still owns cighty acres of that purchase. His homestead now contains 200 acres of good land under fine cultivation. Mrs. Ilutchi- son died January 6, 1882, at the age of forty-five years, leaving at her death a family of eight children -- Mrs. Sarah Jane Hall, Mrs. Fanny M. Dille, George E., Mrs. Mary Fertig, Cora, William, Susan and Maud, all living at home but the married daughters. Isabel, the sixth child, died at the age of two and a half years. For his second wife Mr. Hutchison married Mrs. Martha (Bates) Day, in December. 1853. and to this union have been born two chil- dren-Edith and Adam Clark. Mr. Hutchi- son came to America a poor boy, but by his industry, frugality and good manage- ment he has prospered in his agricultural pursuits, becoming the owner of a fine property, and by his honorable and upright dealing's has gained the confidence of the entire community. Mr. Hutchison is is his religious faith a Presbyterian. In p li- tics be affiliates with the Republican party. Mr. Hutchison has held several offices, serving as assessor three years, three years as trustee, two years as clerk, an ! tebool director thirteen years, holding at these positions acceptably and efficiently .
OHN HUTCHISON, an active and enterprising farmer of Rice Town- ship, living on section IS, is a native of County Antrim, Ireland, born March 14, 1836, a son of George and Fanny (Luke) Hutchison, both of whom died in Ireland. John Hutchison lived in his native country till nineteen years of age, when he sailed from Liverpool. England, for America. landing at New York City, July S. 1855. Ile spent the first two years of his residence in this country in the State of New Jersey. where he was employed as a farm ham1. Ile then came to Mellenty County. 11i- nois, where he was marrie i in ISay to Viss F1BORGE M. BROWN, farmer, section : 12, Lott's Creck Township, was born 2. in Geauga Canty, Ohio, Jer : 24, Ist. His parents were George ap. Mi- nerval Emos Brown, the former a Da voi Nog York and the laVer of Com Georg Masse, the sith of a Bit of Helen D. Cross, a native of Steuben Can .. . tv, New York, and a daughter of James Cross. After pis marria_ : Mr. Hutchison berm farming ou rentell land, which he followed until tofs. In the spring of that voar he remove I to Leavenworth County, Kinas, and the first your was in the seven children who lived to alle it.
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When I was ableut five years of age this He was educated in the common schools parent idnovel to Knox County. Oh, of Lis neighborhood, and at Parsons Col- where he was reared and created. Her lege, at Fairfield, I wa. In 1860 he came learned the carpenter's trade which he fol- lowed several years. At the age of twenty-three he commenced teaching, and has taught several years in Ohio and lowa. with his parents to Ringgold County, lowa, then locating in Jefferson Township, where our subject has since made his home. He was united in marriage December 24. 1883, He was married April 1, 1858, to Miss ! to Miss Ida Osmond, who was born in Janesville, Wisconsin, a daughter of John Osmond, who is now deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Heaton are the parents of one son, Foss, born February 20, 1885. Mr. Heaton farms 200 acres of land, of which he is the owner of forty acres, renting the rest. He is one of the active and enterprising young men of Jefferson Township, and is at pres- ent serving as president of the School Board, and filling the office of township clerk to the entire satisfaction of his con- stituents.
Nancy Kirkpatrick, a native of Knox County. In October, 1862, he enli. ted in Company D. Sixty-fifth Ohio Infantry. Ile participated in the battle of Stone River where he was wounded on the right leg by a minie ball which he preserves as a relic of the "late unpleasantness." He was confined in hospital for some time and was honorably discharged in August, 1863. He returned to Knox County, and in 1856 removed to lowa and located at Mt. Ayr. In the winter of 1865 - 7 he settled upon his present farm, where he has since re- sided. He owns 100 acres of land in a good state of cultivation and well improved. Hle has a comfortable residence, an orchard of two acres, a large number of shade trees, a good barn, and everything about the place betokens the thrift and enterprise of its owner. Mr. Brown has served as township trustee, township clerk, and as- sessor with credit to himself and to the best interest of the township. He is a member of the Masonic order, Garnet Lodge, No. 416, Caledonia. Politicallyhe is Indepen. dent. Postoffice, Caledonia.
OLOMON BEAR, farmer, section 16, is one of the old pioneers of Monroe Township, who has been identified with the interests of the county nearly thirty years. He was born in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, near the Allegheny Mountains. August 16, 1832. His parents, Lewisand Mary (Keifer) Bear, were natives of the same county, the former of German ancestry. They were the parents of fourteen children, Solomon being the eld- est. When he was six years of age his , parents removed to Westmoreland County. where he was reared on a farm, attending school only a few months. In isg; 1.s came to Limm Count . Ibaa. where he re- sided eighteen months, then returnd. () Pennsylvani . and hier to Wels Conny, Indiana. In the fall o. 1557 he retward to) lowa and spent the winter at Cedar R ids. The your following he hostel any his present fim, which was then is it : primitive que. It was schoolbord, il ke
EARNEST J. HEATON, farmer and stock-raiser, living on section 22, Jei- ferson Township, is a native of lowa. born in Jefferson County, August 12. 18do, a son of Rev. Edward B. Hopon who is the present pastor of Asbury Metho list Episcopal Church, of Des Moines, lowa. Ernest J. was reared to agricultural pur- suits which he has made his life's work. pull & sagarouge. The farm cont play
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weres of well- cultivated and improved lan 1. a large portion being rich bottom land. Lott's Creek waters the farm and renders it one of the best stock firms in the town- ship. He has an orchard of three acres, a large amount of willow, osage, anl honer locust hedge, one of the best native groves in the township, consisting of six acres, mostly maple, a comfortable house, and out- !
buildings of all kinds for both stock an ! grain. He is engaged in stock-raising and feeding. When he first came to Ring- gold County, provisions were scarce and Ligh, corn was $1.50 a bushel and flour $9 per hundred pounds. December 5, 1865. Mr. Bear was married to Miss Sarah E. Walker, a native of Iowa, daughter of Henderson Walker, an old pioneer of De- catur County. They had one son, Win- feld Scott, who is fitting himself for a pro- fession. Mrs. Bear died in January, 1871, and in February, 1872, he was married to Amanda Elvina Dewley, a native of Har- rison County, Missouri. They are the par. ents of five children -- Dolly Aan, Nellie, Mary, Agnes, Franklin. Mr. Bear is a member of the Odd Fellows order, Mt. Avr Lodge, No. 169, and politically is a Republican. He is one of the pioneers of the old type, plain and outspoken, genial and hospitable in disposition, and is one of the lending men in his township where he has so long residedl. Postoffice, Black- Inore.
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L. GLEASON, physician and sur- goon, Kellerton, lowna, is a native je of Illinois, barn September 27. ISS), a son of D. R. and Margaret ( Leggo), Glison, the former a native of Vermont, an l the letter of Indiana. He was reared in His native State, receiving a goal odnosi tion, and at the age of twenty-one years be- yan the study of medicine under the direc. tem of Dr. J. Il. White, of Mt. Ayr,
lowa. In the winter of 1882-'3 h attended the Eclectic Medical College, at Cincinnati. Ohio, and in the winter of 1883-'4 the medical department of Drake's University, at Des Moines, lowa, from which he gra l ( nated January 24, 1884, receiving his di- ploma June 12 of the same year. In the spring of 1884 be located at Kellerton, and from that time bis practice steadily in- creased, until it became large and lucrative. In the fall of 1836 he went to Chicago, Illi- nois, and during the winter of 1886 -; at- tended lectures at the Bennett Medical College. He is recognized as one of the promising young physicians of Ringcoll County, an I already holds a high position in the estimation of his brother practition- ers. He is ambitious, and devotes his en- tire time to his profession, that he may keep informed on all subjects of benefit to him in his practice. His faithful attendance: on all cases entrusted to his care, and his cheerful, pleasant manner in the sick- room make him a welcome visitor to all needing his services. He is a young man of pleasing address, and his genial manners make him popular with the young people, and their social circle is incomplete when his duties call him elsewhere.
W. SELBY, physician and surgeon, residing in Tinglev, is a native of Wis- cousin, barnon a farm in La Fave'ta County. November 11, 1855, a son of John N. and Mary (Dewine Salby, natives of Ohio, the father being of English ont Scotch, and the mother of German ances try. They left Onio in 1850. gong ty Win consin, where they made their har til 1867. They then came with then fas thet lowa, an Llora short the livet in | mit- gomery County, moving theme to Put County, where the mother ciel ir 1 7p The father sel exptentry settled at Not.
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Market, Taylor County, lowa, where his i la 1858 or 1850 he removed with his family death occurred in 1885. R. W. Selby spent
to Mercer County. Illinois, and in 1864 h's boyhood days in Page County, receive 'went to Idaho, where he was engaged in
ing his primary education in the district 1 mining till 1808, when the family came to schools, completing it at the high school at Corning, lowa. He then entered the office of Dr. Paschal, of Hawleyville, Iowa,' where he commenced the study of medi- cine. He took his first course of lectures at Keokuk Medical College, and later al- tended Rush Medical College of Chicago, Illinois, graduating from that institution in 1883. He then returned to Taylor County, Iowa, where he commenced the practice of medicine, being actively engaged there till June, 1884, when he came to Tingley, Ringgold County, where he has applied himself diligently to his profession, and by his strict attention to his patients he is building up a good practice, and gives promise of becoming one of the leading physicians of the county. The Doctor was married in April, 1886, to Miss Minnie E. 1 Ringgold County, lowa. The parents are now living in Jefferson Township. They had a family of three children. of whom our subject is the only one living. Their eldest son, Thomas, died in Idaho, aged twenty-three years, and their son, John, died at the age of four years. William B. Cole, the subject of this sketch, spent his youth in assisting his father on the farm, and received his education in the common schools. Ile subsequently read law for a time, and was admitted to the bar in 1880, and practiced his profession for a while before the Justice, Circuit and District courts. He is now devoting his attention to the duties of his farm, on section 16, Jef- ferson Township, where he has 142 acres ! of choice land, and is meeting with success in his general farming and stock-raising. Mr. Cole was united in marriage May 22, 1876, to Miss Viola Bonebrake, a daughter of the late Samuel W. Bonebrake. They are the parents of four children -- Ira T., Samuel C., Frederick H. and an infant son.
Rayburn, of Hamilton, Illinois, at the time of her marriage, but a native of Keo- kuk, lowa. In connection with his practice 1 the Doctor has a half interest in a drug- store in Tingley, being associated with C. C. Bosworth, the style of the firm being R. W. Selby & Co. Dr. Selby is a member of the Odd Fellows order, belonging to a ! lodge in Page County.
ILLIAM B. COLE, son of Will- iam and Elizabeth Buckingham -> Cole, was born in Rock Island. Illi nois, November 12. 1855. His father was born in Killarney, Ireland, anl in 1840 cime to the United States, settling in Massachusetts. In 1550 he went to Califor. nia, where he mined till 1853. returning in that year to Massachusetts. The same year they removed to La Salle County, Mi- nois, and soon after settled at Rock Island.
P. LILLIE, of Kellerton, a promi- nent pioneer of Decatur and Ring- 12 gold counties, was born in Athens County, Ohio. April 1. 1823. set of Apollo Lillie, a native of Connecticut, who immi- grated to New York, thence to Ohio. His mother was Dorcas . Sevrona bile, who was rearel in New York. His parents arol a family of six children- Jo. ph. Hannah, Benjamin, Romus, Lies and Nin rol. Rufus P. was the fourth chill. Hi- curly file was passed the farm. Here- ceived his chu ation in the subscription. hools o. that des, and worked for 25 cents a day to pay for the same.
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improving his opportunities and study , property in Davis City. He is a member ing at home, he received sufficient educa- of the Good Templars order, and is politi- tion to enable him to teach school. Ar- : sally a Republican. By fair and honorable riving at the age of manhood, he was . dealing he has secured the respect of all who know him. united in marriage with Sarah Gilpin, a native of Morgan County, Ohio, and daughter of Jonas and Nancy Gilpin. In 1856 Mr. Lillie, with wife and four chil- dren, came to lowa by team, first locating in Decatur County, Eden Township, where he resided two years. In 1859 he removed to Woodland Township, and one year Jater returned to Eden Township, where he resided at the breaking out of the civil war. lle enlisted August 2, 1863, in the Ninth Iowa Cavalry, and was transferred by request to Company G, Fourth Iowa Cavalry. He was in the engagements at Tupelo, Old Town Creek, Hurricane Creek, Bear Creek, Independence, Missouri, Big Blue, Little Blue, Mine Creek and where General Marmaduke surrendered, near Fort Scott, on Wilson's raid from Selma, Alabama, and Monte Valley, Ellerton, Plantersville, Ebenezer Church, and sey- cral others. He was mustered out in August. 1855. at Atlanta, Georgia, receiv- ing his final discharge at Davenport, lowa, then returned to his home in Eden Town- ship. His wife died a few months before he returned from the service. She was the mother of six children -- Charles W., Lorenzo Dow, Lewis C., William J., George C. and Rufus P. From ISCS un- til 1822 Mr. Lillie was engaged in con- tracting and building. He was married a second time, February 15, 1872, to N. J. MeDonald, a native of Perry County, Ohio. They have one child - - Mary Myr. tle. In 1872 Mr. Lillie located in Bloom- ington Township, where he reside l until 1581, then removed to Kellerton, where he owns a fine residence, one and a half stories in height, ilished in modern style, and well furnished. He owns a goo l farm n Bloomington Township and a residence
ILLIAM M. WOOD, a leading farm- l \ er of Washington Township, is a native of Michigan, born in Ilills- dale County, November 24, 1837. a son of Elkanah and Abigail (Jackson) Wood, na- tives of New York, where they were mar- ried, and in 1832 they moved to Michigan, and made that State their home until their death. They were the parents of nine chil- dren,seven of whom lived till maturity, our subject being next to the youngest. He re- mained in his native county until eighteen years of age. He received a good educa- tion, attending the common schools, and later the Michigan Central College. After leaving school he began teaching. which he continued several years. He then engaged in farming and in the mercantile business in Warren County, Illinois, where he spent thirteen years, and from there moved to Jasper County, Iowa. and for two years lived on a farm near Prairie City. Selling his farm he moved to Montgomery County, where he lived until 1882. He pwned a farm of 320 acres near Red Oak, and ch- gauged extensively in raising conta and hogs, being one of the most successful in thisen- terprise in the county. In 1882 he went to Madison County, Nova ka, where he lives two and a half years. when he returned to lowa and bought the farm where he nos lives, on section 8, Washig ton Township. Ilis Kam contains 24 acres, fifty acres o which is pasture an lumber landen Thealso Guns LE Sacresin maska. Il makes . specialty of stock raising, having summerth finest breedso catthatthing .. and although he has been a residential Ringgit County
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so short a time, is ranked with her most en- mont County. Ohio, January 21, 18;, terpeking and prosperous citizens, and is dmghter of Thomas and Sarah A. Butler. They have had two children -- Benjamin now serving as trustee of Washington Township. Mr. Wood wasmarried in 1904 . Thomas, who died in infancy, April 14. to Annie R. Waggoner, daughter of Henry an I Ester (Sherman Waggoner, of Warren County, Ilinois. They have three children -- Alice J., wife of Solomon Layton, Leon E. and Lila A. Mr. and Mrs. Wood are members of the Methodist Episcopal church.
FRANCIS E. GIBBONEY, section 3, Riley Township, was born in Bedford County, Pennsylvania, December 14, 1829. Ilis parents, Benjamin and Marga- ret ( Kendall) Gibboney, were also natives of Pennsylvania, residing there until 1838, when they moved to Licking County, Ohio, and from there in May, 1846, to Louisa County, lowa, where our subject attained his majority. In 1856 he went to Kansas, and lived in that State and Missouri until the breaking out of the war of the Rebellion. In June, 1861, he went to Fort Leaven- worth and enlisted at the first call for three years' volunteers, and was assigned to Company C, First Kansas Infantry. He participated in the battle at Wilson's Creek, where the gallant General Lyons was killed. Ilis regiment lost heavily, Con- pany C having twelve men killel and thirty-six wounded. Mr. Gibboner was shot through the right arm, and so disabled as to necessitate his discharge. Ile nowre- ceives a pension of Sto a mouth. MMfter his discharge he returned to Louis County, and in 19 , locate I in Ringgold County, buying his present homestead which con- tains eighty acres of good land, which he has brought under calivati m, it ' cin . will laut when he bought it. Healsoowesten acres of valuable tho'er land. Mr. Gib- boney was married October 15, 1852. to Amelia A. Butler, who was born in Bel-
1874, airl Sarah Margaret, born November 4. 1877. Mrs. Gibboney is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. Mr. Gibb mey is a member of Garnet Lodge. No. 416, F. & A. M., and Ellis C. Milier Post. G. A. R. In politics he is a Repul lican. He was one of the patriotic " Free- State " men who fought under Jim Lane to save Kansas from having slavery forced upon her by the slaveholders of the South, and has in the past suffered much for the cause of freedom and the Union. Mr. Gib- boney's father died in Muscatine, lowa, in IS50, and his mother in September, 1878. Hle has three sisters living -- Mrs. Elizabeth F. Brown, of Riley Township ; Mrs. Jane G. Crow and Mrs Sarah M. Woodruff, of Louisa County. His only brother, James B. Gibboney, was a very prominent citizen of Louisa County, and at the time of his death was county auditor, a position he had filled ten years.
FOHN DUKES, residing on section 33, Union Township, is a native of Eng- land, born in Monmouth County, June 4. 1842, a son of William anl Mary Ann Dukes. He was reared to manhoo ! in his native country, but thinking to better his con lition in ffe he decided to inalight . to America, and May if, 1957, he lan lehet New York, inne listely procedadi notte. Illinois, where he lived five your. He was mariedat Joliet, August 15, 136, 10 Mil. Ime Price, who was born in Heron This, Fabian I, July 2, 18 :5. She came within : parents to America in 12, S.and was 1. in Will County, Finais, Her jer nte firm. tra Hither death. Mr. and Mrs. Duk bave five chillic. - Mary B., Willie;
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Gange. Edward and John. Mr. Dukescame to Ringgold County, lowa. from J det, and ja isto bought eighty acres of his present farm, on which he settled in 1878. He has since added to his original purchase till he has now 320 acres which he has improved from the raw prairie, all being under good cultivation. His farm is located in Union and Monroe townships, 165 acres bring in each township. Both Mr. and Mrs. Dukes are members of the Methodist Episcopal church. In politics he affiliates with the Repablican party. By his straightforward life Mr. Dakes has, during his residence in the county, won the respect an I esteem of all who know him. In 1885 the parents of ; Mr. Dukes came to him from England, the mother dying at his home September 25. 1833, aged sixty-four years. In November ISS5, the father returned to England. Flis brother George has twice visited this coun- try, remaining some years cach time. Ile returned to England in July, ISS ;. Another brother of our subject, William, died in Minnesota in 1883, and is buried in Monroe Township, this county.
J. SHOWALTER, farmer, section 23, 1 Middle Fork Township, was born in 3 Putnam County, Indiana, January I, IS47, son of Nimrod and Sarah (Sham- baugh) Showalter, natives of Virginia. Ile was the third of seven children, and pesol his early life in assisting on the form an 1 in obtaining his education in the public schools of his native county. At the age of nineteen years he con . 10 Ring- gold County and beatel in Millle Fork Township. His firy purchasemi real estate was in 18 %, which he bright eighty acres of land on section 6, which he partly im- prov . 1, and so! I in 1875. He then bough another eighty, which is his present have, adding still another eighty site that time.
Ile how has ido a re: of well-cultivated land, a good ord' and af 150 trees, vineyard an I small fruits, and every convenience for general farming an I stock-raising. He was married, March 4. 1959, to Miss Martha Miller, a daughter of Nathan Miller, whose sketch appears elsewhere in this volume. They are the parents of six children- Hugh F,. Sarah .A., Ernest, Inez. Naomi and Loster E. Mr. Showalter has served as township clerl . a member of the School Board, and is a worthy member of the Ad- vent Christian church, of which he is see- rotary. In the general conference he is clerk of the church. He started in life without means, but by working out by the month and teaching twelve or fifteen terms, he was able to purchase his first land. Politically he is a Democrat. Post office, Ingart Grove.
SAAC OLIVER, farmer, section 8, Monroe Township, is among the intelli- gent and enterprising pioneers of his township. He was born in Ashland County, Ohio, September 29, 1827. 1lis parents were Daniel and Sally (Quick) Oliver, natives of Pennsylvania. They were married in Ashland County and reared a family of cleven children, of whom Isane is the third. His youth vos spent on the farm, and his e location was obtained in the logs ho thouse. He was married April 4, 1850, to Miss Martha Blackmore, born in Beaver County, I'mn- sylvania, daughter of Samuel and In :- beth Thorsson, Blackmore. February 25. 1951. Mr. Oliver started for lowa, var- ing by rail as far as Rock ishot, sich was the western things at the mail ! at that time. Him there he wit :) kok County with 1 ans, and avec moi- ing one song in that contaty. he came to Ringgold County and Mat Buyen Mb
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present farm, which was then in a wild was reared to manboo lin his native coun- state. He was the first settler in Monrer ty, receiving; his education in the common schools an ! at the Londonville Academy, which he atten led two terms. He came 10 Ringgold County, Iowa, with his parents in 1856, where he followed farming till 1860. In that year he crossed the plains to Colorado, remaining there two years, when he went to California, where he was en- Township. There were but few voters in the county. Mt. Ayr had one leg store 14 X 14. Here Mr. Oliver passed through all the privations and hardships of pioneer lite. Groceries and flour were very scarce and high, and he had to pay as high as Sto a barrel for salt. His farm contains 165 acres of as good land as the township , gaged in freighting and dealing in hay till affords, under a high state of cultivation 1866, when he returned to Ringgold Coun- and well improved. He has a good resi- , ty, lowa, and soon after purchased the old dence, a fine orchard of 700 trees, a native grove and out-buildings for stock. Mr. and Mrs. Oliver have one child -- Franklin Perry. Mr. Oliver is a consistent member of the Methodist Episcopal church, and is serving as trustee of the same. Politi- cally he is a Republican and cast his first vote for General Scott. Postoffice, Black- more. "homestead of hisparents. He was married in March, 1858, to Miss Sarah M. Lewis, a native of the State of New York. and a daughter of Nelson Lewis, of Ringgold County. They are the parents of six children -- Myra L., Mary E., William F., Oliver H., Theressa J. and Coletta, all of whom have received good educational ad- vantages. Mr. Chance has met with suc- - cess in his agricultural pursuits since making his home in Ringgold County, and is now the owner of a fine farm containing 240 acres, all under fence an I highly culti- vated. In connection with his general farming he devotes considerable attention to the raising of stock, making a specialty of thorough-bred cattle. Mr. Chance has never aspired for official positions, but was elected and served as township trustee of Washington Township for four years, with credit to himself and his constituents, when he resigned, and has since devoted his time to the duties of his farm.
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