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B. BURTON, section 17, Un- ion Township, postoffice New York, was born September 2, 1831, in Windham County, Vermont, a son of Timothy and Mary (Pierce) Bur- ton, also natives of Vermont. He was reared a farmer in his native State, re- maining there until 1856, when he came West and lived in Macoupin County, Ill- inois, several years. He taught school in the winter, working as a farm hand in the summer, until he had saved enough to start for himself. Finally he bought eighty acres at $21.50 an acre and built a house and in other ways improved it. He was married September 22, 1859, to Mary A., daughter of Ebenezer and Susan D. (Grout) Upham. Mr. Upham was born in Windham County, Vermont, and for sev- eral years was a merchant in Boston, Mas- sachusetts. In 1836 he immigrated to Ma- coupin County, Illinois, and in 1840 went into business at Chesterfield, where he con- tinued until 1864. Mrs. Upham was a na- tive of Westboro, Massachusetts, but met and married her husband in Alton, Illinois. Mr. Upham was one of the original aboli- tionists, and early became an intimate associate of Lovejoy and other noted workers in that cause. He was the trusted lieutenant of Lovejoy at the time of the
Alton riot and vainly tried to raise enough men to protect the great reformer from his ignominious death. In 1864 Mr. Upham and Mr. Burton moved with their families to lowa and bought adjoining farms, Bur- ton paying $3.15 an acre for his and Upham $1,000 for 160 acres, on which was a log house, a leaky, shaky affair, in which the family were obliged to hoist umbrellas dur- ing every rain-storm. Mr. Upham farmed but a short time preferring a mercantile life, and accordingly went into business as clerk at New York, which he continued until his death, March 2, 1876. Mr. Burton lived with his father-in-law until he could build a house, which was the following fall. In 1869 he built an addition to his house, which is now his comfortable and commodious home. Their house was often the abiding- place of wayfaring men, at one time their floor serving as a bed for sixteen. He began his tree-planting in the spring of 1865, and now has a fine orchard, and his buildings are protected by a luxuriant growth of shade trees. His barn, which is a model of its kind, 30 x 40 feet in size, was built in 1878. He has served as township trustee one term and as town clerk ten or twelve years. In politics he is a Republican. He and his wife are members of the Congre- gational church. They have seven children, the two eldest born in Illinois and the others in Wayne County.
ALBOT ROCKHOLD, section 23, Grand River Township, was born in Whitley County, Kentucky, March 2, 1821, a son of Charles Rockhold, a native of Baltimore, Maryland, who lived to the advanced age of ninety-four years. Our subject came to Iowa in 1843 and was a member of the Board of Commissioners that organized Wayne County, and also laid out the town plat of Corydon, buying
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160 acres, which was the original site, for Si an acre. He located on his present farm in 1850. He has been successful in his operations and now has 6441/2 acres of valuable land, which is conducted by his sons. Mr. Rockhold was married March 25, 1844, to Louisa M., daughter of Alexan- der Laughlin. To them were born eight children, six of whom are living-Alexan- der L., Joseph E., Mary A., Elizabeth E., John J. C. and George. Mrs. Rockhold died April 16, 1880.
P. BURTON, M. D., New York, Iowa, was born in Windham Town- ship, Windham County, Vermont, January 8, 1826. His parents, Timothy and Mary (Pierce) Burton, were also natives of Vermont, the father of Manchester and the mother of Windham. E. P. Burton worked on his father's farm in his youth, attending the academy at Townsend, Ver- mont. When twenty-two years old he be- gan the study of medicine with Dr. Ran- ney, ex-Lieutenant-Governor of Vermont, and later entered the Castleton, then Wood- stock, Medical College, from which he graduated in June, 1852, and then located in Wardsboro, where he practiced six years. In 1859 he moved to Chesterfield, Illinois, where he lived until 1864, when in January he enlisted in the war of the Rebellion and was appointed Assistant Surgeon of the Seventh Illinois Infantry, and the 22d of the following October was promoted to Surgeon of the Twelfth Illinois. His regi- ment participated in the battle at Allatoona Pass, October 5, but at that time the Doctor was attending to the hospital at Rome, Georgia. He accompanied his regiment on its march through Georgia and the Car- olinas with General Sherman and witnessed the capture of Fort McAllister and the burning of Columbia. His journal, kept
during this march, gives vivid and inter- esting descriptions of the battles and por- trays many thrilling events. While the Doctor was in the army his wife was with her parents, and after his discharge he went to Gill, Massachusetts, where he practiced two and a half years. In 1868 he came West and located in New York, Iowa, where for eleven years he enjoyed a good practice which extended ten miles in every direction. In 1879 he had a partial stroke of apoplexy and has since been unable to attend to the duties of his profession. Dr. Burton was married January 31, 1854, to Miss Harriet Caldwell, a daughter of Rufus and Lucinda (King) Caldwell. Her father was born and always lived on the farm where he died, in Northfield, Massachusetts. Her mother was a native of Marlboro, Ver- mont. Her father was the son of a Revo- lutionary soldier who bought a Connecti- cut River Valley farm at Northfield, this farm being still in the family. Doctor and Mrs. Burton have four children-William C., a civil engineer and farmer of Kansas ; Minnie M., wife of I. G. Davis, of Union Township; Almon P., of Kansas, and Alice E., attending the Moody school at North- field, Massachusetts.
HOMAS BLACKBURN, one of the enterprising farmers of Wayne Coun- ty, residing on section 16, Jackson Township, is a native of Fayette County, Pennsylvania, where he was born October 10, 1812. When he was two years old his father, Moses Blackburn, died, and his mother, Sarah Blackburn, removed to Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, and in that county he was reared to manhood. He then went to Jefferson County, Ohio, where he lived some six years, removing thence to Morgan County, Ohio, where he made his home for thirteen years, engaged in agricultural pursuits. He then sold his
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land in Morgan County, and in 1876 bought his present farm in Jackson Township, which contains 160 acres of choice land under a high state of cultivation. This is one of the best farms to be found in the township, and his commodious two-story residence, built in modern style, and farm buildings are large and comfortable. Mr. Blackburn was united in marriage April 27, 1843, to Cath- erine Elliot, a native of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. Ten children have been born to this union of whom only five are living-Sarah A., Robert W., Maria, Thomas E. and Nancy. Margaret, Mary, Samuel W., Minerva and Ida are deceased.
UKE HALFHILL is a native of Han- cock County, Illinois, where he was born in 1840, but since his sixth year has lived in the State of Iowa. Mr. Half- hill served in the defense of the Union, be- ing a member of the gallant Fifteenth Iowa Infantry. He participated in some of the most severe conflicts of the war, including Shiloh, siege of Vicksburg and Kenesaw Mountain. At the last-mentioned battle he received a severe gun-shot wound in the right wrist, which disabled him from active service with his regiment. He was then attached to a veteran reserve corps during the remainder of the war. After the war he returned to his home in Van Buren County, Iowa, and was there mar- ried to Miss Sarah Robinson, her father, William Robinson, having been one of the early settlers of that county, living there till his death, which occurred in 1860. Mr. and Mrs. Halfhill are the parents of eight children-William, Mecca, Clyde, Walter, Lesley, Fred, Ora and Eva. Mr. Halfhill has been a resident of Wayne County since 1873, locating on his present farm, on section 26, Warren Township, in 1881. He has met with success in his agricultural
pursuits, having acquired a good property by his good management. His home farm contains sixty acres of excellent land, be- sides which he owns 120 acres located else- where in the township.
L. SAYRE, a son of George and Sarah Sayre, was born in New York City, New York, July 23, 1846. He was reared to manhood in Buchanan County, Iowa, to which county his parents removed when he was nine years of age. His early life was spent in assisting his father with the work of the farm, and in attending the district schools, where he re- ceived a fair education. February 13, 1865, he enlisted in Company C, One Hundred and Fifty-sixth Illinois Infantry, receiving his discharge at Memphis, Tennessee, Sep- tember 25, 1865, when he returned to his home in Buchanan County. In March, 1866, he came with his father's family to Wayne County, Iowa, they settling in Wright Township. He was married July 9, 1876, to Mary E. Miller, a daughter of Samuel and Seely Miller, the father a na- tive of Graceland County, Kentucky, they coming to Wayne County in 1861. Mr. and Mrs. Sayre are the parents of three children-Ettie B., Ollie M. and George Roy. Mr. Sayre located on a farm on sec- tion 17, Wright Township, where he now lives, in 1877. He has 134 acres of good land well improved, a fine orchard of 160 trees, and a beautiful maple grove, and his home and out buildings are noticeably good. He has always followed agricult- ural pursuits, and by his industrious habits and good management has been highly suc- cessful. During his residence in Wright Township he has won the respect of all who know him by his honorable and upright dealings. He has held several offices of trust in the township which he has filled
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satisfactorily. In politics he casts his suf- frage with the Greenback party, and is a comrade of Messenger Post, G. A. R., of New York, Iowa. He is a demitted mem- ber in good standing of the Grand Lodge, A. F. & A. M., of Iowa.
ILLIAM B. CANNON, section 10, Jefferson Township, was born in. Shelby County, Ohio, a son of Richard M. and Mary (Broadwick) Cannon. His father was a native of Scotland and came to the United States in his childhood. He grew to manhood in Hunt County, Ohio, and helped to clear the ground which is now the site of the city of Sidney. He was a soldier in the war of 1812 serving with distinction, and in the early days of Ohio was a noted hunter. He is especially famous as the pale-face who shot the noted Indian chief Long Pipe. His wife,the mother of our subject, was a daughter of Robert E. Broad well, a native of Pennsylvania, and for many years superintendent of a Quaker school in his native State, and for five years Indian agent in Ohio. A son (uncle of our subject) has followed in the footsteps of the father and is now an agent at one of the In- dian reservations. William B. Cannon was reared in Ohio, and there obtained a good education in the common schools. He en- gaged in farming until the breaking out of the war of the Rebellion, when he enlisted in the defense of his country and was as- signed to Company B, Twentieth Ohio In- fantry. He was a faithful soldier, and with his regiment participated in seventeen en- gagements, the more important being Fort Donelson, Shiloh, Iuka, Corinth, Holly Springs. He started with Sherman to the sea but, his term expiring,he was discharged at Atlanta. After his return home he ex- changed his implements of war for those of peace, and again devoted his attention to agriculture, remaining in his native State
until 1878, when he came to Iowa and lo- cated in Wayne County. He has a pleas- ant home, his farm containing 120 acres of land, and his improvements being built with a view to convenience and durability. He was married October 26, 1865, to Mrs. Sarah A. Sipes, daughter of Emerson Brown and widow of Samuel B. Sipes. Mr. Sipes was a native of Saratoga Springs, New York, a son of John S. Sipes, and of German descent. He was a mem- ber of Company H, Seventy-sixth Illinois Infantry, and participated in the battles of Vicksburg and Holly Springs. He returned from the war and died at his home in St. Ann, Illinois, January 11, 1865. He was married to Miss Sarah A. Brown July 23, 1854, and at his death left a son-Samuel A. To Mr. and Mrs. Cannon has been born one son-Milton E., now an intelligent and enterprising young man, who is his father's assistant on the farm. Mr. Cannon is a prominent member of the Grand Army of the Republic, an organization in which he is much interested.
EORGE SAYRE, deceased, was born on the island of Guernsey in the Eng- lish Channel. He immigrated to America at the age of eighteen years, landing in New York City, where he made his home for a period of twenty-five years, working at his trade, he being a carpenter by occupation. He came to Iowa in 1855, locating in Buchanan County, where he remained till 1866. For his wife he mar- ried Sarah Paul who was a native of New York City. Six children were born to this union-George W., Sarah A., William H., Charles L., J. W. and Mary Jane. William H. was a member of Company E, Fifth Iowa Infantry, during the late war. Hc was confined in prison eleven months, and died at Andersonville Prison. George W.
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served over four years in Company C, Ninth lowa Infantry, two years as Color- Bearer. Mr. Sayre came to Wright Town- ship, Wayne County, in 1855, where hc died several years later, respected and es- teemed by a large number of friends.
OHŃ BULLARD, a leading represen- tative of the stock and grain-dealing business of Wayne County, is the owner and operator of the Humeston ele- vator and stock-yards. This building was erected by a man by the name of Brook- ings. about 1880, and after passing through the hands of Davidson, J. R. Cassity, John Harkins and H. N. Blair, in October, 1884, was purchased by its present owner. It is 32 × 34 feet in ground area, three stories high, and has a storage capacity of 10,000 bushels, and is fully equipped with all modern machinery. The stock-yards com- prise some two acres. Mr. Bullard was born in Lee County, Iowa, August 15, 1844, and is the son of James and Althea (Dunn) Bullard, the former a native of Virginia, and the latter of Kentucky. When he was six years of age death deprived him of his father, and at a very tender age he was forced to strike out in the world and bat- tle for himself, at first on a farm and later in trading in stock. When he was about twenty-three years old he entered the em- ploy of Atlee, Davis & Co., contractors, who were building a part of the Burling- ton and Southwestern Railroad. The next year he took a contract himself on the same road, from Farmington to Bloomfield. The following spring he took charge of the grading, furnishing bridge timbers and ties for the intended Iowa, Minnesota & North- ern Pacific Railroad, under Hornish, Davis & Co., contractors, and graded the road from Monroe to Newton. The road fell through and Mr. Bullard next took charge
of and managed a steam saw-mill ore win- ter, but in the spring purchased the farm in Lee County, Iowa, belonging to Senator Morton, of Indiana, where he followed farming six years. He, in 1880, removed to Weldon, Iowa, where he lived four years, engaged in buying and shipping stock and grain, and dealing in lumber. In October, 1884, he removed to Humeston, and is now one of the largest dealers in his line in Southern Iowa, shipping from an elevator which he owns in Corydon, one at Cambria, and a scale and office at Go- shen, in addition to the business he transacts at Humeston. Large amounts of money are yearly paid by him to the farmers in Wayne County for his products. Upright and honorable in all his dealings he has the respect of the whole community. He was married February 16, 1865, to Mary A. Griffiths, a native of Indiana, a daughter of William and Ruth A. (Elson) Griffiths. They are the parents of six children, four of whom are living-Ruth Ann, wife of C. E. Joy ; James Madison, Myrtle and Harry H. The deceased are-Jesse and May. Mr. Bullard's paternal grandfather, James Bullard, was a soldier during the Revolu- tionary war, and died in 1864, at the ad- vanced age of ninety-seven years. He was a member of the old Iron-side Baptist church, in Brown County, Illinois, near Versailles. His wife lived to be ninety-six years of age.
ILLIAM JACKSON, one of the pioneers of Wayne County, Iowa, and at present county recorder, was born in Mercer County, Pennsylvania, December 25, 1822, a son of Thomas and Catherine (Caldwell) Jackson. The Jack- son family were pioneers of the Keystone State, and active participants in the early Indian wars of that State and also in the war of the Revolution. The great-grand-
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father of our subject was captured by the Indians, but was rescued by the famous Poe brothers, noted Indian fighters. The par- ents of our subject were both born in the year 1797, the father dying in 1838. The moth- er survived her husband until 1881, dying at the advanced age of eighty-four years. William Jackson was reared to manhood in his native county, and was there married at the age of twenty-three years to Miss Lucinda Mitcheltree, who died in 1851. The same year, soon after the death of his wife, Mr. Jackson came to Wayne County, lowa, locating in Walnut Township, where he engaged in farming. He was again married in December, 1853, to Miss Grace E. Wilson, and after her death he married Mrs. Susan E. (Porter) Hubbard. Mr. Jackson has but two children living-Em- ma C. and Charles, both by his second marriage and now living in Kansas. Ten children are deceased, several of whom reached maturity and left families. Politi- cally Mr. Jackson affiliates with the Demo- cratic party. In 1856 he was elected clerk of the District Court, and removed to the county seat, serving in that capacity for five years, after which he was variously employed till the fall of 1882, when he was elected county recorder and has since held that office by re-election.
AMES E. WHITELEY, farmer and dealer in lumber and grain, Jackson Township, postoffice, Harvard, Iowa, is among the oldest settlers of the town- ship. He is a native of Yorkshire, Eng- land, born February 18, 1823, a son of John G. and Mary (Scott) Whiteley. His- early life was spent in his native country, and in his youth he assisted his father in a mill, there learning a trade that has been a source of revenue to him since coming to America, although his principal vocation has been other branches of business. He
came to the United States when twenty- three years old, and first lived in Delaware, subsequently going to Pennsylvania and Ohio. In 1849 he moved to Iowa and en- tered eighty acres of land in Marion County, where he lived until 1856, when he sold his farm and removed to Wayne County, locating on the farm in Jackson Township, where he now lives. He has 450 acres of Wayne County's best land, which is well-adapted for both grain and stock. His residence is a model of con- venience and his barn and other farm build- ings are commodious and comfortable. He is the owner of a lumber yard in Harvard, which he conducts in addition to superin- tending his farm, and also deals in grain and hardware, his sons, Frank E. and James E., being associated with him in the business. Mr. Whiteley was married March 31, 1856, to Mary J. Ellsworth, of Marion County, Iowa, daughter of Simeon and Sarah Ellsworth. To them have been born ten children, nine of whom are liv- ing-Frank E., Henry A., James E., Scott F., Ralph R., Floyd A., Wallace G., Carl and Eunice.
W. CLEMENS, senior member of the firm, J. W. Clemens & Son, gen- eral furniture dealers and undertak- ers, Seymour, Iowa, bought the entire stock of furniture from W. S. Brant in 1877. K. P. Morrison, a partner with J. W. Clem- ens, was succeeded by A. E. Clemens in 1883. This firm keeps a full line of furni- ture, having a large stock and complete assortment, and has established a good trade. Its building and stock have twice been destroyed by fire-October 28, 1881, and August 9, 1884, and each time a severe loss was sustained. J. W. Clemens was born near Dayton, Ohio, in 1825. When eight years of age he accompanied his father, John Clemens, to Wayne County, Indiana,
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and lived there until 1852, when he re- moved to Appanoose County, Iowa, to which county his father had moved in 1851, and had bought a farm near Union- ville, where he lived until his death, Feb- ruary 28, 1880. The father's family con- sisted of ten children, all of whom save one son are living. He was killed by a fall down a canyon in Idaho, near Boise City. J. W. Clemens was married in Indiana to Leanah Beaver, a native of West Virginia. To them have been born ten children, five sons and five daughters, seven of whom are living-Orilla, wife of J. W. Leavell; Elizabeth M., wife of H. M. Townsend; The- odore, now of Greene County, Iowa, mar- ried Sarah Underwood; David S., a con- ductor on the Rock Island Railroad, mar- ried Carrie Munsey; Arlando E. was born in Appanoose County, Iowa, December 3, 1857; Osee E., wife of J. R. McCoy, of Seymour; Leah Catherine, wife of J. R. Pettigrew. Mr. Clemens has been in the furniture business since 1854, starting in Appanoose County, where he remained until removing to Seymour. He is a thor- oughly practical business man, and since locating in Seymour has been an active worker in promoting and advancing the interests of the town.
WV. STEELE, attorney at law, is one of the youngest members of the pro- fession in Wayne County. He was born in Owen County, Indiana, in 1858. His father, J. H. Steele, moved with his family to Wayne County, Iowa, in 1864, and settled in Benton Township, where he died in February, 1884. The family consisted of three children, a son and two daughters. C. W. Steele was reared on his father's farm, and was given a good education, graduating from Simpson Centenary Col- lege, Indianola, Iowa, in 1880. He had
prior to this studied law, having chosen that profession, and after his graduation continued his studies, and in March, 1881, was admitted to the bar. He located at Allerton, where he continued his practice two years, and in 1883 removed to Cory- don. In 1885 he was elected mayor of the city. Mr. Steele is a young man of more than ordinary ability, and in his profession is fast gaining an enviable place. He is popular in both business and social circles, his genial and affable manner having won him many friends. His wife, formerly Fannie Chapman, is a daughter of A. J. Chapman, of Washington Township.
EHEMIAH A. HART, farmer and stock-raiser, section 1, Benton Town- ship, was born in Clay County, Mis- souri, October 9, 1842. His father, Matillo Hart, who is now deceased, was a native of Virginia, and an early settler of Clay Coun- ty, Missouri. He settled in Washington Township, Wayne County, lowa, in the year 1848, where he entered 160 acres of wild land from the Government. The country was then mostly inhabited by In- dians and wild animals, and at that time there were but two houses in the present limits of Wayne County. The Harts were six miles distant from any habitation, and Indians were their most frequent visitors. Nehemiah A., our subject, was reared to manhood on a farm in this county, and ed- ucated in a rude log-cabin subcription school which was built by people of the county after his coming here. He was united in marriage, December 24, 1863, to Miss Parmelia Cox, a daughter of George Cox who settled in this county in an early day, remaining here till his death. Seven children blessed this union, of whom six survive-George N., James I., William L., Martin L., Ella B. and Leona Edith. Mr.
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Hart has made farming the principal avoca- tion of his life, and by his industrious hab- its and excellent management has acquired a fine farm of 286 acres, which he keeps under good cultivation. Mr. Hart is an enterprising citizen of Benton Township, and is active in all enterprises which he thinks are for the advancement of her interests. He is always interested in ed- ucational matters, and has served one term as school director.
P. NEWCOMB, one of the leading men of Humeston, Wayne County, and a member of the firm of A. Humeston & Co., was born in Medina County, Ohio, April 29, 1841, a son of James and Harriet (Bennett) Newcomb. S. P. was reared on a farm, his father being engaged in agricultural pursuits. He re- ceived his rudimentary education in the district schools, completing his studies at the Western Reserve Eclectic Institute of Hiram, Ohio, of which James A. Garfield was the principal, taking a three years' course at this institution. September 22, 1861, Mr. Newcomb enlisted in the Forty- second Ohio regiment, commanded by Colonel Garfield, and participated in the battle of Haines' Bluff, siege of Vicksburg, Champion Hills, and in the campaign after General Humphrey Marshall, beside numer- ousskirmishes. He was then commissioned Captain of Company H, Third Mississippi Colored Infantry, serving in that capacity till the spring of 1864, when he resigned on account of his objection to stealing cotton, assigned to many regiments in the scene of their operations, and to the gen- cral antipathy displayed toward officers of colored regiments. He then returned to Ohio, coming to Iowa in the fall of 1865, and for one year had charge of the schools of Leon, Decatur County. He then pur-
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