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trader, and also dealt largely in real estate, and at his death, which occurred January IO, 1877, he left a large estate. His widow, who still survives, lives on the old home- stead on section 1, Douglas Township, the home farm containing 300 acres. Mr. White was a member of the Board of Edu- cation. He was a member of the Method- ist Episcopal church of Salem, of which building he was contractor and builder. Mrs. White is a member of the same church.
AON. M. M. WALDEN was born Oc- tober 6, 1836, on Scioto Brush Creek, in Adams County, Ohio. His father, Joseph M. Walden is deceased. His mother, Malinda (Prather) Walden, is liv- ing in Corydon, Iowa. One brother, now deceased, J. F., was a paymaster in the Union army. Mr. Walden was reared on a farm, and when fifteen years of age could perform all kinds of farm work, making a full hand with cradle or scythe in the har- vest field. In his early life he attended district school at a log school-house two miles from home, where he obtained the rudiments of an education. In 1852 he ac- companied his father's family to Lee County, Iowa, and resided on a farm near Primrose, attending the village school in the winter. In 1854 he entered Denmark Academy, where he remained one year. In 1855 he attended college at Mt. Pleas- ant two terms, and then returned to Ohio and taught one term in Warren County, near Morrowtown. The same year he en- tered the Ohio Wesleyan University, at Delaware, graduating in the scientific course in June, 1857. Having no funds except what he earned, he engaged to teach in Champaign County, Ohio, and at the same time kept up with his classes in college. In 1858 he taught a term in Miami County, and in 1859 graduated in
the full course of study and received the degree of Bachelor of Arts. In 1862 his alma mater conferred on him the degree of Master of Arts. In 1859 he came West as far as Illinois, and taught one term, and then came to Iowa, and was employed as principal of the public school in Center- ville, the building being on the identical spot where his residence now stands. In 1860 he went South with the idea of follow- ing his profession as a teacher, although in the meantime he took up the study of law. Not finding a healthy condition of affairs in the South he returned to Center- ville early in 1861, and enlisted in the first company raised for the war in Appanoose County. May 16, 1861, he was commis- sioned Captain of Company D, Sixth lowa Infantry, and was mustered into service at Burlington, Iowa, July 17. He was de- tached from his company at Jefferson City, Missouri, the following October, and was sent home to recruit men to fill the ranks depleted by sickness. He enlisted troops at Centerville, Albia, Chariton, Osceola and other points in Southern Iowa, and in De- cember joined his regiment at Sedalia, Missouri. In February, 1862, he was in command of the regiment for a time at Tipton, in the absence of his Colonel. In March the Sixth Iowa went up the Tennes- see River with Grant's army to Shiloh, and was on outpost duty on extreme right and front at bridge over Owl Creek, when the battle began, April 6. He held his post with two companies until the enemy was in the camps on his left, and his rear. Re- ceiving orders from General Sherman to retire, he made a detour down the creek and through the swamps with his com- mand, and safely joined his regiment, and that day about noon, in the absence of his superior officers, he was elected to com- mand the regiment. The same evening he, with the Sixth Iowa, was in rear of the heavy siege guns, near the landing, and re-
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mained in line of battle all night. The next day his regiment, still in his command, was in the fight as a part of General Garfield's brigade. He was obliged to resign the following December, on account of a severe hemorrhage of the lungs. In the early summer of 1863 he was enrolling officer for Appanoose County, and later he raised another company for the service, and was mustered in as Captain of Company H, Eighth Iowa Cavalry, at Davenport, Sep- tember 30. In 1864 he was with Sherman on the Atlanta campaign, and took part in many severe battles. He was captured July 30, 1864, in the rear of Atlanta, where he had gone with his regiment, in General McCook's division, to tear up the railway; was imprisoned first at Macon, and thence taken to Charleston, and placed under fire of the Federal arms. In October he escaped from the prison and reached his regiment at Columbia, Tennessee, in time to take part in the battle of Franklin. He was in the fight at Nashville, December 15 and 16, 1864, when he commanded a battal- ion of the Eight Iowa Cavalry. Early in 1865 he was assigned to duty as Provost- Marshal on the staff of General Croxton, commanding First Brigade of the First Division Cavalry Corps, and was with him during the famous raid in Alabama, just before the fall of Richmond, and helped destroy the foundry and iron works at Tuscaloosa and Blue Mountain. His com- mand marched 650 miles in the month of April, swimming four large rivers, and de- stroying an immense amount of property. He was a gallant and courageous soldier, never shirking where duty called, no mat- ter how great the danger. His bravery won for him the esteem and admiration of his entire command, and elicited praise from all his superior officers. For ten years following the war Mr. Walden was editor and proprietor of the Centerville Citizen, a journal which acquired wide in-
fluence under his control. He has taken an active interest in the politics of his State and has held many important and influen- tial positions. From 1866 till 1868 he was a member of the State Legislature ; from 1868 till 1870 was State Senator ; from 1870 till 1872 was Lieutenant-Governor of Iowa, and from 1871 till 1873 was a member of the Lower House of the United States Legislature. He usually takes an active part in the political campaigns of his State and nation. In 1876 he visited Ohio, speaking in behalf of the Republican party, and in 1880 visited New York on the same mission.
ANFORD S. COLE, an active and enterprising farmer and stock-raiser of Johns Township, Appanoose County, was born in what is now Tipton County, Indiana, near the town of Tipton, the date of his birth being March 22, 1840. His parents, John B. and Sarah E. Cole, were both natives of New Jersey, remov- ing from that State to Indiana. They came to. Appanoose County, Iowa, in the fall of 1855, and settled in Johns Township, where they lived till their death. They had a family of ten children, six sons and four daughters, of whom five children are yet living. Sanford S., our subject, passed his youth on a farm, and received his education at the district schools. He came to Appa- noose County with his parents in 1855, re- maining with them till twenty-six years of age. He was then married to Miss Mary J. Hught, second daughter of Samuel and Mildred Hught, who settled in this county in 1864. Of the five children born to Mr. and Mrs. Cole two are deceased. Those living are-Oscar M., Proctor C. and Grace C. After his marriage Mr. Cole set- tled on his present farm on section 11, Johns Township, which contains 160 acres of val- uable land, with good substantial barns and
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out buildings, and ten acres of good timber land on section 12. He was here engaged in general farming and stock-raising, and was the first to introduce the thorough- bred short-horn cattle in his part of the county. He remained on his farm till 1882, when he removed to Centerville and en- gaged in the drug business. In the fall of 1885 he sold out his business at Centerville, and returned to his farm where he at pres- ent resides. Mr. Cole, has served accept- ably as treasurer of his township. Both he and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church at Bethel.
AMUEL A. HAYES, furniture dealer and undertaker of Moravia, was born near Pulaski, in Giles County, Ten- nessee, November 26, 1836, the eldest son of Alex. and Priscilla R. (Andrews) Hayes. The father was born in 1804, died in Ten- nessce in 1842, the family living on the homestead in that State till 1853. In the spring of that year the mother removed with her six children, two sons and four daughters, to Appanoose County, Iowa, making the journey by team in forty-nine days. On arriving in this county the family settled two miles south of Moravia, in Taylor Township, purchasing a claim of 120 acres, eighty acres being prairie, and the remainder timber land. The mother died on this farm in 1879, at the age of seventy-three years, she having been born in the year 1806. Samuel A., our subject, was educated in the schools of his native county, and in the schools of Moravia, Ap- panoose County, he being a mere lad when he came with his mother to this county. He remained on the home farm till reach- ing maturity, and in 1858 was married to Miss Caroline M. Callen, a daughter of Edward and Martha Callen. To this union were born six children, of whom three still
survive. In 1862 Mr. Hayes enlisted in Company C, Thirty-sixth Iowa Infantry, and served three years, participating in the battles of Helena and Mark's Mill, where he was shot in the thigh. He was taken prisoner and held twenty-eight days when he was paroled. He then joined his regi- ment, and was mustered out in 1865, when he returned to his old home in this county. In 1878 he moved to Unionville, where he carried on the furniture business in connec- tion with undertaking for three years. In the spring of 1881 he came to Moravia, and engaged in his present well-established business, where he has met with success, keeping on hand a good stock of everything pertaining to his line of business. He also runs a millinery store, to which he gives a part of his time. Mr. Hayes has a very fine apiary at his home, often having from twenty-five to fifty stands of bees, from which he obtains a large yield of honey He has had an experience of forty years in this industry, commencing when he was a boy nine years old, and has become tho- roughly acquainted with the habits and wants of bees, therefore is successful in caring for them, and is rewarded by the profits they bring him.
OSIAH J. PRATT is a native of the State of New York, born in Avon, Livingston County, October 4, 1833. In October, 1854, he left home and went to St. Charles County, Missouri, and engaged in farming with his uncle, Josiah Pratt, un- til 1856. He then returned home and a lit- tle later went to Ypsilanti, Michigan, and in the fall of 1859 he enlisted in the regular United States army as a private in Com- pany D, Fourth Cavalry, and in 1864 reen- listed and served seven years and six months. He served on the frontier until the breaking out of the Rebellion, when his
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regiment was assigned to the Department of Texas. He participated in many of the hard-fought battles of the war and was a brave and intrepid soldier. At the close of the war he was ordered with his regi- ment to San Antonio, Texas, where he re- mained a year. He was discharged the first of July, 1867, and soon after came to Iowa and located in Appanoose County, engaging in farming in Bellair Township until 1881, when, on account of ill health, he retired from farm life and removed to Centerville. October 9, 1864, he was mar- ried to Lucy A. Tuttle, and to them have been born five children. Mrs. Pratt is a member of the Baptist church. Mr. Pratt is a member of the Masonic fraternity and of the John L. Bashore Post, No. 122, G. A. R.
EORGE WILLIAM DUFFIELD, of the drug firm of Duffield Brothers of Centerville, was born near Keo- sauqua, Van Buren County, Iowa, January 16, 1851, a son of John and Jane (McGib- bin) Duffield, natives of Ohio, the former being of Scotch and Irish ancestry. The father came to Van Buren County, Iowa, in 1834, and settled on Government lands, where he made a farm, on which he still makes his home. When first locating there his only neighbors were Indians, and he is said to be the first man who brought a wagon west of the Des Moines River in Van Buren County. He was married in 1848 to Jane McGibbin, who came to Van Buren County with her parents in 1840, his wife still living to enjoy the comforts of their farm made out of the western wilds of Iowa. George William, whose name heads this sketch, was reared on the home farm and educated in the common and high schools of Keosauqua. For one year after g.ining his majority he farmed on the homestead, when, in 1873, he engaged in
the drug business at Keosauqua with Dr. W. L. Lattimer, which partnership con- tinued till February, 1875, under the firm name of Duffield & Lattimer. He was then engaged in the drug business, as man- ager for Mitchell Brothers, at Moulton, Appanoose County, until 1877, when he was employed as foreman in the retail depart- ment of the wholesale and retail drug estab- lishment of J. L. Tavlor & Co., of Ottumwa, until August, 1880. He then came to Centerville and established his present busi- ness, and in 1884 his brother, Ora J., be- came associated with him, thus forming the present drug firm of Duffield Brothers. Mr. Duffield was married at Keosauqua, October 20, 1875, to Mary E. Hogue, daughter of James and Elizabeth (Bonner) Hogue, one of the oldest families of that place. They have one child-Carroll H. Both Mr. and Mrs. Duffield are members of the Methodist Episcopal church at Cen- terville.
ACOB KNAPP, dealer in imported and full-blooded horses, was born near Plain City, Ohio, in the year 1827, a son of Elihu Knapp. His father be- sides being engaged in agricultural pursuits was a tanner and a shoemaker, and young Knapp was reared to follow those pursuits. In 1848 he engaged in farming near his birth- place which he followed exclusively until 1855. Selling his farm in that year he came to Centerville, Appanoose County, Iowa, where he began manufacturing and dealing in boots and shoes, forming a partnership with Warren Allen, with whom he was as- sociated in business under the firm name of Knapp & Allen. In 1858 he retired from the boot and shoe business and engaged in farming in Walnut Township, this county, and there bred and dealt in horses until 1881. He then rented his farm and has since been a resident of Centerville. He is
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now devoting his whole attention to the breeding of full-blooded draft horses, con- sisting of Clydesdale, English and French draft horses, and to him is given the credit of greatly improving the stock in Appa- noose and adjoining counties. Mr. Knapp was married in the year 1846 to Miss Fran- ces C. Allen, daughter of John and Anna (Bangs) Allen. They have had eight children-Albert A., of Walnut Township; Zachary T., deceased ; Anna J., wife of D. O. Scott, of Walnut Township; Warren E., on the homestead in Walnut Township; Alvin Filmore, a farmer of Walnut Town- ship ; Lillie L., wife of William Bartlett, of Kansas ; Lettie E., wife of C. R. Porter, of Missouri, and Lincoln A., of Centerville. Politically Mr. Knapp casts his suffrage with the Republican party.
ANIEL PENCE, one of the old set- tlers and a representative farmer of Taylor Township, was born in Greene County, Pennsylvania, February 17, 1818, the third son of Daniel and Cath- erine (Chase) Pence, both natives of Penn- sylvania. His father died in 1819, leaving the family in limited circumstances and the children were early obliged to work for their own maintenance. He remained with his mother until eleven years of age, and then began to work on a farm, living with one man about seventeen years, and in the meantime worked in a flour-mill. This was in Muskingum County, Ohio, where his mother had removed with her family. He was married when twenty-seven years of age to Jane Fisher, of Muskingum County. He worked in the mill about three years after his marriage, and then engaged in agricultural pursuits until the fall of 1855, when he moved to Appanoose County, Iowa, locating on the farm where he now lives a mile southeast of Moravia
He bought 160 acres for which he gave his note for $1,200, and then went to work to pay his indebtedness, and every note was paid before due. He cut large quantities of prairie grass and sold the hay at $15 a ton. He has been a successful stock-raiser, keeping only the best grades. He now has 1,000 acres of choice land, all well stocked, and his improvements are notice- able for their commodiousness and con- venience. His large brick residence is one of the best in the county. Mr. Pence has a family of six children, five sons and one daughter.
OSEPH STAUBER, one of the oldest men and one of the first settlers of Taylor Township, was born in Stokes County, North Carolina, September 30, 1804. His father, Christian Stauber, was a native of Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, of German ancestry, and was by trade a tailor. He went to North Carolina when a mere lad, and there married Anna M. Baumgardner, a native of Stokes County, and a descendant of a noble family. Of a family of eight children, two lived to maturity, and only one, our subject, is liv- ing. Benjamin died in Linn County, Mis- souri. Joseph Stauber was reared on a farm, and in his youth learned the trade of a blacksmith, which he followed many years. He lived in Salem, North Carolina, until the fall of 1849, when he came to Iowa, and in May, 1850, located on the farm where he now lives, which he entered from the Government. He built a fair house and made other substantial improve- ments and now has a pleasant home, his 220 acres of land being among the best in Taylor Township. He worked at the blacksmith's trade, building a shop on his farm when there was no town of Moravia. Abandoning his trade he devoted his en-
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tire attention to agriculture until his health induced him to give up the care of the farm to his son. He is a man of unques- tionable integrity and was one of the or- ganizers of the Moravian church in the village. He was married in February, 1832, to Dorothea E. Fogle, a native of Stokes County, North Carolina. She died in 1878. Mr. Stauber has a family of eight children-Maria, Benjamin C., Sophia L., Ellen M., William H., Alexander N., Charles E. and Anna R.
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OHN W. WHITE, the eldest son of John White, one of the pioneer set- tlers of Washington Township, was born in Vermillion County, near Terre Haute, November 7, 1844. The father was married in Indiana, to Jane Pierman, who was born in Kentucky, moving to In- diana with her parents when a child. In the fall of 1848 John White, Sr., re- moved with his family to Appanoose County, Iowa, locating in Douglas Town- ship before the county was organized, where he entered a large tract of land. He made the journey to this county by team, bringing with him $100 in cash. He was very successful in his farming operations, and at the time of his death, which occur- red in January, 1877, he was the owner of 3,200 acres located in Iowa, Kansas and Nebraska. He was an active, energetic and public-spirited citizen, and gave largely ยท of his means for the advancement of his adopted county, giving at one time $3,000 to the Rock Island Railroad. He was also a liberal supporter of his church. His widow is still living on the old homestead in Appanoose County. John W., whose name heads this sketch, was about four years of age when his parents came to Ap- panoose County, and here he attended school, completing his education at the
schools of Centerville, after which he taught school for one term He remained on the home farm with his parents till his marriage, in 1868, to Mary F. Hollings- worth, the eldest daughter of Jeremiah Hollingsworth, a local preacher of the Methodist church. They have six chil- dren living, four sons and two daughters. After his marriage Mr. White settled on his present farm on section 3, Washington Township, where he owns 600 acres of choice land, under a high state of cultiva- tion. Mr. White is classed among the suc- cessful and enterprising stock-raisers of Washington Township, and has about ninety head of cattle on his farm at present, having some of the finest specimens of short horn cattle in the township, for which he has carried off the first prizes a number of times in Appanoose and Davis counties, Iowa, and in Scott County, Missouri. He has a good residence, two fine barns, and other outbuildings in good condition, every place about his farm betokening care and improvement.
AMES N. SWAN, one of the leading stock men of Johns Township, Appa- noose County, was born in Greene County, Pennsylvania, near the town of Carmichaels, August 12, 1837. He was the fifth of a family of ten children of Jesse and Elizabeth (Niel) Swan. Jesse Swan was a farmer by occupation. He died when our subject was but fourteen years of age. Af- ter the death of his father, James was thrown upon his own resources, when he began working on a farm at $6 per month. He continued on the farm till twenty years of age when he came West and assisted in taking through a drove of horses to Mount Pleasant, Henry County, lowa. He then engaged to work on a farm in that county and about this time had a hard siege of the
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ague. The following year he ran a break- ing team of four yoke of cattle. He then returned to his native county in Pennsyl- vania, but a year later came back to Henry County, Iowa. Owning a team, he en- gaged in breaking land, and the next fall bought a threshing machine which he oper- ated during the winter. He was married in 1862 to Mary A. Maulding, of Henry County, this State. After his marriage he lived one year at Mount Pleasant, where he was employed as a salesman by the Coles Brothers, for whom he sold lightning rods for three years. In 1865 he came to Appanoose County, where he still contin- ued in the employ of the Coles Brothers, being with that firm in all for twelve years. He then engaged in general farming and buying and selling stock, shipping his cattle largely to the Chicago markets. His first land was forty acres of raw prairie on which a small cabin had been erected, and to his original purchase he added till he had 160 acres. In 1873 he bought 240 acres of land on section 11, Johns Township, to which he removed his family the same year. His home farm now contains 640 acres, all in one body, besides which he owns a farm of 120 acres located in this vicinity, which is occupied by his son, W. L. Swan. He erected his fine substantial residence in 1876, and his barns and other farm buildings are among the best in his neighborhood. He devotes his entire atten- tion to his farm and is making a specialty of high-grade short-horn cattle. Mrs. Swan died in Johns Township, February 4, 1877, leaving a family of five children, the young- est being but eighteen days old. Mr. Swan was again married in the fall of 1879 to Mary F. Andrews, who was a widow at the time of her marriage with Mr. Swan. This union has been blessed with one child. Mr. Swan is one of the self-made men of Appanoose County, having commenced life on his own account without a dollar,
and by his own efforts became one of the well-to do citizens of the county. He has served his township as trustee, besides hold- ing other township offices, all of which he has filled acceptably.
AMES O. ANDREWS, one of the early settlers of Taylor Township, is a native of Giles County, Tennessee, born in August, 1835, the eldest of a family of eight children, four of whom are living. His father, Silas Milton Andrews, was born in Maury County, Tennessee, February 15, 1808, and was there married in 1834, to Louisa Woods, a native of Giles County, Tennessee. He moved to Appanoose County, Iowa, in 1851, and located on sec- tions 16, 21 and 15, Taylor Township, on land he had entered the year previous. He built a small log house, off which the roof was blown during a wind and rain storm that same year. He was by trade a saddle and harness maker, and for some years after coming to lowa worked for John Vierling, of Moravia. He then abandoned his trade and devoted his attention to agri- culture, living on his farm until his death, which occurred September 17, 1885. His widow now makes her home with her daughter, Mrs. Tucker. James O. An- drews was educated in his native State. He was fifteen years of age when he came to Iowa with his parents, and being the eldest son, his services were required in assisting to improve a frontier farm. He has been an enterprising, industrious farm- er, and now has 200 acres of valuable land, all well improved, and his residence and farm buildings are among the best in the township. He has paid considerable attention to stock-raising, having some of the highest grades of cattle and swine. He has taken an active interest in his town- ship, and has held various official relations.
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For fifteen years he was justice of the peace, serving continuously until defeated by the Grangers. He has been treasurer and clerk of his township several years each. In politics he is a Republican. He and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church .. He was married in 1856 to Cordelia, daughter of Edward Callen, one of the first settlers of Appa- noose County, coming here from Tennes- see in 1849.
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