Biographical history of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, Part 34

Author: Lewis publishing company, Chicago. [from old catalog]
Publication date: 1891
Publisher: Chicago, The Lewis publishing company
Number of Pages: 828


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three years, and then purchased a tract of eighty aeres on sections 29 and 32 of that Township, all unimproved prairie, built a honse there and began improvements which he has continued up to date, thus making a beautiful home. On the premises is a good orchard of about 125 trees, and there are also many shade trees. Mr. Johnson is an industrious and judicious farmer and stock - raiser; has also done much in building up the interests of this county; is a decided Re- publican, and has held the office of Constable. He is a self-made man, having risen to his present position by his own unaided efforts. Ile and his wife are exemplary members of the Weslevan Methodist Church.


He was married in Ohio, October 4, 1854, to Miss Ellen Harl, a daughter of Tramel and Elizabeth (Wilson) Ilarl, natives of Vir- ginia, and of English and Scotch origin. Her mother died in Mt. Vernon, Ohio, and her father in 1885 in Pottawattamie. They had a family of eleven children, Mrs. John- son being the fourth. She was born in Mt. Vernon, Ohio, October 10, 1836. Mr. and Mrs. Johnson are the parents of six children, namely: Hamilton, deceased; Richard M., who died at the age of nineteen years, March 15, 1874; George W., born December 27, 1858, and is now a resident of this county; William T., born June 17, 1861, and now also a resident of this county; Charles M., born May 15, 1865, and now residing in Custer County. Nebraska; and Mary E., born February 14, 1876, and is at her parental home.


NDREW MARTIN, lumber merchant, and the agent of the Green Bay Lum- ber Company, of Des Moines, Iowa, is one of the reliable business men of Walnut.


He was born in Schleswig-Holstein, Ger- many, July 11, 1858. His father, Captain Andrew Martin, is a naval officer of Ger- many, and is now on the retired list. He was the father of two children, Andrew and Almo.


Andrew Martin, the subject of this sketch, received a high-school education in Ger- inany. At the age of twenty-three, in 1889, he came to America, and having learned the English language in Germany, he soon ae- quired the correct speech. Mr. Martin came directly to Davenport, Iowa, and the same year to Walnut, and purchased a farm of 130 acres of land in Monroe Township. Shelby County, and farmed for two years, and then he engaged in his present business, owning an interest.


In 1884 he married Margaretta Kleingarn, a native of Germany, and they are the par- ents of three children: Bertha, Waldmar and Otto. In religious belief Mr. and Mrs. Mar- tiu are Lutherans. In political opinion Mr. Martin is a Democrat, and socially a member of the Odd Fellows and United Workmen. He is a man well known as a straight-forward business man of integrity and ability, and has the confidence of the business inen of the county.


G. JONES, a farmer of Rockford Town- ship, was born in Putman County, Indiana, August 8, 1841, the son of Nathan and Abigail, Dewese (Jones). The parents were natives of Kentucky and of Dutch, Irish and Welsh extraction. Nathan was brought up in Kentucky as a farmer's son, moved to Indiana and bought a farm of 200 acres, one-half improved and the re- mainder in heavy timber. There be built a house and made many valuable improvements.


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In 1856 he sold out and moved by emigrant wagon to Appanoose County, this State, driving a herd of cattle, and locating upon a traet of 340 aeres of prairie and timber, which he subsequently divided up among his sons and son-in-law, keeping 120 acres for himself. IIe resided there nine years, making improvements, and then sold out, and in the fall of 1865 settled where he now resides, upon 150 acres of land. There the next antnmn his wife died, leaving seven children, namely: W. L., who now resides in Harrison County; Mary Jane, who married Henley Mullenix, and is now deceased; David A., of Nebraska; Parks, who died in infancy; L. G., the subject of this sketeh; Cenif and Cerina, twins; Cenif is the wife of William Williams, Rockford Township, and Cerina, of Newton Moreland, in the same township.


L. G. Jones, the fifth child and youngest son in the above family, was brought up to farm life. At the age of twenty-one years, he married Miss Elizabeth Martin, June 18, 1863. She was the danghter of Raleigh and Elizabeth Martin, natives of Indiana, who re- removed to Adair County, Missouri, and died there. They had seven children: French, wbo resides in Missouri; Naney, wife of John Sonth, and now residing in Lee County, Iowa; IIenry, deceased; George, in Missouri; Eliza- beth was the next; Lucinda, wife of James Heinline, of Missouri; and Coleman, a resi- dent of Council Bluffs. Mrs. Elizabeth Jones was born September 5, 1841, and was married at the age of twenty.


After his marriage Mr. Jones rented a farm and raised one crop, and then came to Rockford Township, remained one winter, and the next spring purchased a farm of 120 acres in Ilarrison County of land entirely unimproved, and remained upon it four years. Selling it, he purchased a saw-mill, which he successfully ran for six years; next he rented


another farm for one year, and then bonght 200 acres of wild, rough prairie, which he now ocenpies as a highly developed farm, all the improvements being his own design and execution. His house is a frame 26 x 28 feet, and a story and a half in height, with verandas. Ile has also a fine barn and other out-buildings, about two and a half acres of orchard, in fruit both large and small, has fine shade and ornamental trees, all of which bespeak thrift, prosperity and energy. IIe follows both grain and stock-farming.


On national questions Mr. Jones is a well settled Democrat, taking an interest in public affairs. He has been Township Trustee for eleven years, exeepting an interval of one year, serving the people satisfactorily. His three children are: Elizabeth; Abigail, now the wife of (). L. Lueas, in Clay Center, Clay County, Nebraska: she was born October 21, 1866; David Walter, born February 29, 1876, died seven weeks afterward; Melvil Curtiee, born January 3, 1879.


OIIN G. TIPTON, attorney at law Council Bluffs and Omaha, has been a resident of Pottawattamie County sinee February, 1878. He was born in Fulton County, Illinois, in 1849. He was educated at Abingdon, in his native State, graduating at the college at that place in 1871. He then engaged in teaching and reading law. He also read law with Robert G. Ingersoll, was admitted by the Supreme Court of Illinois at Ottawa, October 20, 1874, and praetieed at Bloomington until 1876. In that year he was the Democratic candidate for State Attorney, his opponent being the present Governor of that State, Fifer. He was de- feated by but 386 votes in a distriet that was largely Republican. In 1877 he went to the


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Black Hills, and was there when the first court was held in that distriet, at which court Judge Bennett presided. He located at Coun- cil Bluffs immediately on his return, and has been engaged in law in this eity sinee that time, and is now also practieing in Omaha.


The father of the subject of this notice was John Tipton, who was killed by a falling tree March 23, 1869. His mother died while on a visit to her children in Pottawattamie Connty, July 21, 1879. Samuel S. Tipton, the elder, is a publisher and resides in New York city. Thompson is in the live-stoek and commission business in Chicago. He has five sisters, viz .: Mrs. Mary Swigert, the eldest, resides near the old homestead in Illinois; Mrs. Hannah Combs resides at Burlington, Kansas; Mrs. Sarah Swigert and Mrs. Lydia C. Ramsey are residents of Illinois; Mrs. N. H. Meeker lives at Greenwood, Nebraska.


Mr. Tipton was married in Conneil Bluffs, to Miss Annetta Bryant, daughter of Wil- liam Bryant, of Edina, Knox County, Mis- souri, and a niece of Judge A. S. Bryant. Mr. and Mrs. Tipton have two sons: Thomp- son R. and John W. Mr. Tipton has a fine residence at 1027 Fifth avenue, where he resides. He has done much toward pro- moting the growth and progress of Conneil Bluffs sinee he has been a resident of this eity, and is esteemed as a worthy and enter- prising eitizen.


The father of the subject of this sketeh was a native of Maryland and of Seoteh-Irish an- eestry. When an infant he was taken by his parents to what is now Columbus, Ohio, where he was reared and learned the trade of a carpenter. He assisted in building the first State Ilonse in the city of Columnbus. There he married his wife, whose maiden name was Eliza Crawford. In 1840 he removed to Fulton County, Illinois, where he took up a homestead, which he improved and on which


he lived until his death, which occurred as already stated. He was an honest, upright man and a worthy eitizen, and, while not a member of any religions body, was ever lib- eral in the support of the church. He was a man of decided views on the chief issues of the day, and was mueh in publie life. He was at one time Treasurer of Fulton County, and was for many years a member of the County Board of Supervisors. Besides the surviving children of John Tipton and wife already mentioned, several are deceased: Thomas, at Columbus, Ohio, before the family removed West, dying at the age of nine years; Eliza Jane and Elizabeth in infancy. Isabel mar- ried John Dyer, and died in Fulton County. Samnel, the eldest son, was a soldier in the war of the Rebellion, as a member of the One Ilundred and Third Regiment, Illinois Vol- unteer Infantry. Ile was Adjutant, and for a time served on the staff of General Grant.


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JOHN R. BOULDEN, a farmer of Rock- ford Township, was born in Miami County, Ohio, November 20, 1825, the son of William L. and Naney (Patterson) Boulden. The parents were natives respeet- ively of Maryland and Delaware, and of Seoteh and Irish ancestry. The father was born and brought up on a farm. On attain- ing the stature of manhood he drove a stage coach between Baltimore and Philadelphia. In 1811 he was detailed by the Government to take his team to Fort Mellenry, where he was made wagon-master, and was there dur- ing the bombardment. Ile served through the war of 1812-'14. In 1817 he came Westward over the mountains by wagon to Wheeling, Virginia, where he placed his family on a flat-boat and floated down to Cincinnati, while he with the horses came


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overland through Ohio to that point. In 1810, in Philadelphia, he had married the daughter of Joseph Patterson, who had served in the Revolutionary war, and was engaged in thirty-two different battles. Out of 700 of the regiment he was one of only thirty-five who came out under command of General De Kalb, who fell at the battle of Camden. He had marched from Delaware to engage in the siege of Boston; he was also at the battle of Brandywine and many other hard-tonght battles of the Revolution. Af- terward he was sent South under the com- mand of Gates. After the war was over he returned to his native home in Elktown, Delaware, where he died July 4, 1798: He was intimately acquainted with General Washington. At his death he left his wife and five children, of whom Abraham, Jemi- ma and Benjamin are dead, and Nancy was the wife of the late Mr. Boulden, and Sida- vant was the wife of Jerome Bonaparte. She was known as Lady Bonaparte in Baltimore, where she survived the death of her husband a short time. Mr. William L. Boulden had bnt one sister, Rachel, who married Robert Moody, both of whom are now deceased. When he moved to Miami County he bought a traet of heavy timbered land there and eleared and made many valuable improve- ments; and there he made his home until his death, September 18, 1830, leaving a wife and five children, namely: Lewis, born in 1813, died in March, 1866; William H., born March 16, 1816, and died in October, 1857; Joseph P., born August 11, 1819, residing now in Pottawattamie County; Mary Ann, born September 7, 1822, and died a year afterward; John R., the subject of this sketch; Maria, now the widow of Levi G. Brandon, born November 27, 1828, and now residing in Des Moines.


Mr. John R. Boulden, brought up in farm


life, at the age of nineteen went to Piqua and learned the shoemaker's trade. At the age of twenty-four he married Mary Miller, daughter of Elias and Catherine (Moore) Miller, natives of New Jersey, who came to Ohio in 1803. Mrs. Catherine Miller was a native of Kentucky and came to Ohio at an early day. Mr. and Mrs. Miller were of German and Irish extraction, and were the parents of nine children: Rebecca and Ellis, deceased; Lneretia, residing in Ohio; Han- malı, wife of Solomon Winters, and living in Indiana; Philetha, widow of Adam Schaeffer, in Piqna, Ohio; Philip, in the West; Mary, the wife of Mr. Boulden; John, residing in Ohio, and Elias, in Lafayette, Indiana. Mrs. Bonlden was born February 18, 1829, and brought up in farm life, and married at the age of twenty years. Mr. Boulden remained in Miami County on a farm until 1871, when he moved by emigrant wagon to this State, being six weeks on the road. He purchased a quarter section of land in Wayne County, but sold it and bought the present place of 125 acres of heavy timber land on section 36, range 44, and here he began clearing and breaking and starting the many improve- ments essential to a complete home in the country. He has a fine orchard of about six aeres, besides a nice vineyard. He raises all the small fruits. The residence is beautiful and the locality healthful. During a period of nineteen years the family has resided here, with no sickness worth mentioning. Fifty aeres of the place is cultivated to grain, while the rest remains in pasture and timber. Having learned the trade after he was mar- ried, Mr. Boulden has done a great deal of carpenter work in connection with farming; and also, for some years past, has made about 1,000 bushels of charcoal per year. He is a live, energetic man.


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ing an active part in the interests of Democ- racy, and as such he enlisted in the service of his country, in the One Hundred and Forty-Seventh Ohio Volunteer Infantry, at Piqua, being mustered in at Camp Dennison. Being taken to Washington he was placed in the First Brigade, under General Derusa, in the Twenty-Second Army Corps, and fought in many hotly contested battles. He was advanced to the position of Sergeant, and was finally mustered out as such September 4, 1854, at Camp Dennison. He also enlisted in the Mexican war, but was held for orders at Cincinnati, Ohio, in readiness for a call. He has also been connected with the township in its various offices, of which he has been Jus- tice of the Peace for three terms. He is now officiating on the Board of Education, taking a leading part. He is a member of the Farmers' Alliance, of which he is now presi- dent. He was elected to represent Miami County, Ohio, in 1867, in the Legislature, with the overwhelming majority of 440, over a Republican majority of 1,600, being on the ticket with Allen G. Thurman when he ran for Governor of Ohio; and he was on the stand when Vallandigham made the famons speech for which he was taken captive and banished.


Mr. and Mrs. Boulden are the parents of twelve children: Charles W., born October 1, 1850, and now residing in Missouri Valley; John F., born February 19, 1852, at home; George W., born November 15, 1853, and is now living in Seattle, Washington; Martha C., born June 15, 1855, is the wife of James Garrison in Los Angeles, California; Cather- ine A., born February 20, 1862, is the wife of Charles Wiltfong, in Council Bluffs; Eva, born June 16, 1865, is now Mrs. Richard Thornton, in Fremont, Nebraska; Benjamin Thurman, born August 20, 1868; Emma, born November 15, 1870; Maggie M., born


June 15, 1877, the last three at home; Al- dezara, born May 10, 1857, died July 8, 1858; Joseph Orra, born September 10, 1859, died June 14, 1860, and Louis E., born September 12, 1863, died March 16, 1865.


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DWARD HI. CATER, of section 1, Carson Township, was born in Bel- mont County, Ohio, August 7, 1855, the son of James Cater, a native of the same place, whose family were early settlers of that part of Ohio. They were formerly Quakers or Friends. Our subject's mother, nee Susan Perry, was a daughter of Jesse and Malinda (Poole) Perry, the former a native of Ohio, and a relative of Commodore Perry, and the latter was a native of Virginia, born in 18 -. The parents moved to Burean County, where they lived until their death. They reared seven children. Edward, the eldest of four sons and three daughters, was abont two years of age when his parents moved to Burean County, in the spring of 1857, settling north- east of Princeton, on the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad, near Malden. The father lived there until his death, which occurred in 1868, and the mother still lives on the same farm where they first settled in 1857. The subject of this sketch resided in Burean County until he came to Pottawattamie County, and bought his present farm of eighty acres of the Chicago, Burlington & Quiney Company, which is located one and a half miles east of Carson. He built a good frame honse in 1889, and everything about the place shows the thrift and energy of the proprietor.


Ile was married in December, 1877, to Miss Mary L. Belknap, who was born and educated in Bureau County, Illinois, and the


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daughter of Eli and Mary (Belknap); the father was a native of New York, and the mother of Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Cater have three children: Roy Anstin, Claude Gaston and Edna Mary. They lost their first-born, Lena Leota, by death, when an infant. Polit- ically Mr. Cater is a Republican, and he and his wife are members of the Methodist Epis- copal Church, and he is a teacher and assistant superintendent of the Sabbath school, in which he takes an active interest.


ON. THOMAS BOWMAN, Congress- man-elect from the Ninth Congres- sional District of Iowa, was born in Wiscasset, in the State of Maine, May 25, 1848, and derives his descent from Nathaniel Bowman, who came from England in 1630 in the fleet with Winthrop. During his boy- hoed he made his home at that place, and was educated at Oak Grove Seminary at Vassal- boro, Maine. In 1868 he decided to follow the course of empire, and he bid adieu to home and friends in the old Pine Tree State and started for the West. That same year he landed in Council Bluffs, and being im- pressed with its surroundings, though at that time much in the crude, lie decided to cast his lot there. He has been a continued resident in Council Bluffs ever since. During the intervening period, from 1868 to the present time, he has held several important offices of trust, among them being Treasurer of Pottawattamie County, Mayor of the city of Council Bluffs, and Postmaster of Council Bluffs under President Cleveland's adminis- tration. He was one of the organizers of the volunteer fire department in 1868, and was an active member of the department until 1883, when the paid system was inaugurated. He has been connected with the Council


Bluffs Globe for twelve years, and for the past seven years he has been general manager for The Globe Publishing Company. Mr. Bowman is a man who will make"[friends wherever he goes. He is a man of sterling qualities, and his loyalty to friends and prin- ciple has been a potent factor in his advance- ment in life.


YRUS BOILER, of Walnut, is one of the early settlers of this part of the county. He is from an old American family of German descent. David Boiler, the great-grandfather of our subject, caine from Germany and settled on a farm in Vir- ginia, about 1775. Joseph Boiler, son of the above and grandfather of our subject, was born in Virginia, married Miss Nancy Colli- son, and reared a family of thirteen children, seven boys and six girls, who all lived to years of maturity. Mr. Boiler moved to Pike County, Ohio, about 1800, one of the pio- neers of that county, and lived there until his death. William Boiler, son of the above and father of our subject, was born in Pike County, Ohio, in 1810, and married, in Ohio, Miss Almira Daniels, daughter of Benjamin Daniels, a mayor of the town. Mr. and Mrs. Boiler had four children: Josepli, Benjamin, Wesley, and one who died young. Mr. Boiler remained on his farm until he was forty years of age, and then, in 1850, moved to Mus- catine County, Iowa, and entered a farm, and four years after sold that farin and bought another in the same county, and selling this afterward he moved to Marshalltown, Iowa, and after a short residence there he returned to Muscatine County, lowa. In 1873 he came and settled on 160 acres of land in Potta- wattamie County, Wright Township, where he died, in 1886. Mr Boiler was a substan-


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tial farmer and an industrious, honest man. His first wife died in Ohio, and June 1, 1843, he married Miss Caroline Kincaid, daughter of Robert and Martha (Humphrey) Kincaid. To Mr. and Mrs. Boiler were born two chil. dren: Cyrus and James. Mr. Boiler was an honorable American citizen, and a man who provided well for his family,


Cyrus Boiler, son of the above and subject of this sketch, was born July 6. 1844, in Rice County, Ohio, received a common-school education, and was six years of age when his father moved to Iowa. He learned the car- penter's trade when young. In 1873 he came to Pottawattamie County, lowa, and improved a claim for his father. In 1876 he married Mary R. Osborn, daughter of Solomon and Lydia (Paris) Osborn. The Osborns were an old American family from Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Osborn have three chil- dren: Ina M., Georgiana and Charles C. In 1879 Mr. Boiler went to Leadville, and was in the silver mines, where he remained five years and nine months, and since then he has resided in Walnut. Mr. Boiler is a man who has the respect of his fellow townsmen; in Colorado he was Justice of the Peace and in Walnut has been constable. He is a man who stands well as an honorable citizen and a man of integrity.


ANIEL B. MCMASTER, of Hancock, is one of our "old soldier" citizens who served his country in her hour of need, and then settled down in the great State of Iowa, to the peaceful pursuit of agriculture. His father, William Mc Master, came from Scotland, near the coast, in sight of Ireland. He was well educated for his day, a great reader and a lover of books, and possessed a considerable library. He learned


the tailor's trade, and married, in Ireland, Miss Sarah Boyd, daughter of James Boyd of the city of Belfast, who was a drover and dealer in cattle, driving and shipping cattle from Scotland to Ireland. He was the father of nine children: James, Thomas, Henry, William, Daniel, Robert, Jane, Sarah and Esther, all born in Ireland. He emigrated with his large family to America, and settled in Boston. In William McMaster's father's family there were four children: Archie, William, Bettie and Margaret. The two girls lived and died in Scotland, unmarried. William and his wife came to America soon after their marriage, in 1820, and settled in New Brunswick, where his two eldest chil- dren were born, and then removed to Boston, where the remainder of their family were born. There were twelve children: Archie, William, Hugh, John, James, Daniel, Walter, Samuel, Margaret, Mary, Matilda and Jennie. Mr. McMaster followed his trade, tailoring, in New Brunswick and also in Boston for many years. In 1850 he moved with his family to Michigan, and set- tled in Schoolcraft. Kalamazoo County, on what was called Big Prairie Ronde (Round Prairie), and on the farm bought by Mr. Mc- Master his widow still lives. Mr. McMaster was a member of the Presbyterian Church, and Mrs. McMaster was a strong Baptist. He was a prominent Odd Fellow and insti tnted the first lodge in Schoolcraft. While in Boston Mr. McMaster was a wealthy man, but he lost his property and therefore meved to Michigan. He was a man of very indns- trious habits, and with strict integrity of character, made many friends and held them, and had no enemies. He was noted for be- ing a close-mouthed man, always attending to his own business. He lived to the age of seventy-three years, and died on his farm in Schoolcraft, Michigan. Three of his sons


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were in the civil war. John H. and Daniel B. were in the Union army, and William was in the Confederate service. He went to New Orleans when quite a young man and became a merchant there, owned a plantation in Texas and was a slaveholder. He was an officer in the Confederate army. John H. was in a Massachusetts regiment.


Daniel B. was born July 3, 1842, and re- ceived a common-school education, and was but eight years old when his father moved to Michigan. He learned farming and also the iron-molder's trade. Young Daniel was but twenty years of age when the civil war broke ont, and, filled with patriotism and the thoughts and glory of a soldier's life, he enlisted in Company I, First Michigan Volunteer Car- alry, August 21, 1861, and went directly with his regiment to Washington. He was in the battles of Harper's Ferry, Charlestown, Virginia; Berryville, Winchester, Strasburg, Piedmont, Markham Station, Manassas Gap, Happy Creek, Front Royal, May 23, 1862; Haymarket, Rapidan, Orange, July, 1862; Madison Court House, July, 1862; Orange Court House, July, 1862; Stannardsville, Barnett's Ford, Louisa Court House, Cul- peper, Kelly's Mills, Rappahannock Station, Rappahannock Ford, Waterloo Bridge, Sa- lem, White Plains, Thoroughfare Junction, Bull Run, August 30, 1862 (at which Mr. McMaster had his horse shot under him), Chantilly, Ashley's Gap, Snicker's Ferry, Wolf Run, Shoals, December, 1862, and Bris- tow, January, 1863. At the second battle at Culpeper Court House he was taken sick with typhoid fever and was left on the battle-field for two days and nights. Ile was taken at night to Culpeper and lay in the court-house one hour, then taken to Warrenton Junction, where he lay several hours, and the same day was taken to Mt. Pleasant hospital, Wash- ington, District of Columbia, where he was




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