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and James. Sarah A. is now the wife of Lewis Mark, of Avoca, and they have eight children, viz .: Nettie V., Rosie M., Lillie M., Martha B., John W., Phoebe E., Joseph A. and Lewis M. Martha J. married David Cleamens, and they have two ehildren living, Clara G. and Holley A. Frances married Milo Miles, of Avoca, and they have three children-Altha B., William F. and Stella. Andrew married Mary Charleston, and is now a farmer in Woodbury County, Iowa; Maggie married Eleck Kinraman, also a farmer in Woodbury County, and they have two children-Dorothy E. and Maynard A .; Alice married Joel Jones, and they have two children-James, and an infant unnan:ed.
- ON. WILLIAM H. WARE, of Coun- cil Bluffs, attorney and counsellor at law and member of the House of Rep- resentatives of the State of Iowa for 1890-'91, was born at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, March 3, 1850.
The family of which Mr. Ware is a de- scendant came to Pennsylvania from England and settled at the latter place prior to the Revolution of 1776, and many of them were soldiers in the American army during the struggle for independence.
When Mr. Ware was a lad his father with his family removed from Pennsylvania to Illinois, where the subject of this sketch remained until 1869, at which date he came to lowa. ITis father was a farmer by occupa- tion and the early life of the subject of this sketch was spent on his father's farm, and he was engaged in the occupations incident thereto. Soon after coming to Iowa Mr. Ware was engaged as a teacher in the public schools of that State. In 1874 he removed to Nebraska where he published a paper for
a time, returning from that State to Council Bluffs, where he now resides, and is engaged in the practice of the law. He studied law in the office of the late Robert Percival, and was admitted to practice in the State and Federal courts at Council Bluffs, in 1880. In 1882 he was married to Miss Ingleetta F. Smith, a sister of Judge Walter I. Smith, of Council Bluffs. Mr. Ware is an able lawyer and enjoys the confidence and respect of his fellow-practitioners. Mr. Ware has always been an advocate of low tariff, and has been for a number of years an active member of the Democratic party. In 1889 he was elected, as a Democrat, to represent Potta- wattamie County in the Twenty-third General Assembly of the State of Iowa. His term of office will expire in 1891.
INFIELD S. WILLIAMS, a promi- nent farmer of Valley Township, is the son of Sumner G. Williams, who was born in Bangor, Maine, and who received a common-school education, attending the same school with one of our eminent states- men. Ilis father was a farmer near Bangor. and there were nine children in his family, only three of whom, except his father, our subject remembers, namely: Charles, Sam- uel and Otis. Mr. Williams left his native State at the age of twenty five years and went to New York city, where he resided for sev- eral years. Ile was there married to Ann Wood, and they were the parents of five chil- dreu: Gertrude V., Albion A., Winfield S., Joseph and Mable. Immediately after his marriage he moved to Indiana, settling on a farm in St. Joseph County, near South Bend. He was in that county before the Indians were removed beyond the Mississippi River. lle worked on his farm and followed his
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trade, carpentering, for many years. He now resides in South Bend, where he owns city property. Mr. and Mrs. Williams are mem- bers of the Methodist Church, and Mr. Wil- liams was one of the early Masons of South Bend, a pioneer who took pride in the prog- ress of the county. He has always been an honorable and industrious man.
Winfield S., the subject of this sketeh, was born in St. Joseph County, Indiana, four- teen miles south of South Bend, and was reared to the life of a farmer. In 1872 he came to Pottawattamie County, Iowa, set- tling on his present farm of eighty acres, a part of which he has since laid off in town lots. He was married in Avoea to Miss Eliza Sanders, daughter of W. H. and Sarah (Wakeman) Sanders. The father went to Michigan in an early day, and settled at Ypsilanti, and then, when Iowa was a new State, he came to Davenport, where he re- mained until 1870, when he settled in Avoca. Ile was the father of six children: Wake- man, Stephen, Frank, Sarah E., Lynos and Linn. Mr. Sanders is yet living in Avoca. To Mr. and Mrs. Williams have been born eight children, viz .: Mabel, Frank, Winfield S., Grove, Clara (deceased at seven years), Earl (died at six years), Joseph and Ray. In polities Mr. Williams is a stanch Republican. He is one of the pioneer settlers of Hancock, a part of which is on his farin. He was the first Postmaster. Socially he is an Odd Fellow.
ALEB KIMBALL, of section 3, Garner Township, came to this county in 1852, and has since made it his home. He was born in Greene County, l'ennsylvania, March 20, 1838, the son of Caleb Kimball. of Marblehead, Massachusetts, who served in
the Revolutionary war, and later he and his son, Thomas Kimball, both served in the war of 1812. The subject's mother was Margaret (Riehie) Kimball, a native of Loudoun County, Virginia, and of German descent. The parents were married in Loudoun Coun- ty, and afterward settled in Greene County, Pennsylvania. When Caleb was twelve years of age his mother died, leaving eight ehil- dren, two sons and six daughters, of whom Caleb was the fifth son, his only brother dying at the age of two years. In 1846 the father moved from Pennsylvania to Dubuque, Iowa, which was then a Territory, and Du- buque could not boast of a brick house, most of the residences being log cabins. He re- inained here three years, and then engaged at the carpenter's trade near where Dyersville now stands, the country being new and wild, and containing no railroads. He soon sold his land to Judge James Dver, to found a colony for people from Somersetshire, Eng- land. He then removed to Delaware County, where he lived until his death.
Caleb, our subjeet, worked on the farmn in his youth, and in the fall of 1852, in company with Lemuel Barrett and family, he started on a journey to California, but decided to spend the winter in camp near Conneil Bluffs. Ile afterward changed his mind and bought some Mormon elaims near this place, and became a resident of this county. He bought land in Cerro Gordo County, Iowa, in 1861; but this was never improved, and was sold in 1866, when he bought eighty acres of Hale- man & Rauhn, N. P. Dodge acting as agent; this was first improved by Isaae Cooper. Mr. Kimball has lived on his farm for twenty- four years, and has made inany improvements; it is located eight miles east of the city of Council Bluffs. He works at the carpenter's trade most of the time, having received his first lessons in that trade in his youth, taught
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him by his father. He is a thorough me- chanic, as all his work in Harrison, Monona and this county will show.
Mr. Kimball was married December 12, 1856, to Miss Frances Nixon, of Couneil Bluffs, the daughter of William and Eliza (Collins) Nixon. Both were natives of Fay- ette County, Pennsylvania, and came here in 1853, where they resided until their death. Mr. and Mrs. Kimball have eleven children, namely: John W., residing at Neola, Iowa; Eliza, wife of T. J. Nusun, of Harrison County, near Woodbine; Margaret, wife of J. E. Jefferys, residing in Washington Town- ship; Moses .N., at Sacramento, California, in the real-estate and loan business; Ella, wife of John Dial, of Garner Township; Minnie, the widow of Martin Lee, residing in the same township; Fanny, at home; Caleb, Thomas J., Mary C., and Hugh L. They have lost three children by death: Benjamin F., the seventh child, at two years of age; George, at two years of age; and Grace, also at two years of age. Mr. Kim- ball's son, Moses N., has received a good education, first in Pottawattamie County, then in California, and lastly at the Bainbridge Business College, Stockton, California. The great loss of Mr. Kimball's life was in the death of his beloved wife, who died August 27, 1883.
REDERIC S. THOMAS, a physician and surgeon, of Council BInff's, has been identified with the interests of Potta- wattamie County since 1872. He is a native of New York, born at Chatham, Columbia County, September 23, 1845, the youngest of six children of Caleb J. and Catherine (Smith) Thomas. The father was a native of Clinton County, New York, born March 10,
1807, a son of Caleb Thomas, who came from Lime, Connecticut, and served as a soldier during the Revolutionary war, entering the army when seventeen years old, first as a drummer, and then serving in the ranks for seven years. After the war he located in New York State. He was of Welsh descent, and married a Miss Roland, who was a niece of Richard Lightfoot Lee, of Virginia. They reared six children, of whom the father of our subject was the fourth child. Caleb J. Thomas was reared in New York, and his early youth was spent on his father's farm and later in the factories of that State. His father died when he was seventeen years old. He subsequently became a manufacturer in Kinderhook, New York, but on account of the free-trade law he was obliged to abandon a profitable business and start in life anew. He became a brakeman on the Boston & Albany Railroad, and from that was promoted as conductor, where he remained for a period of years. In 1848 he came West to seek his fortune, loeating near Warsaw, Hancock County, Illinois, where he engaged in agri- cultural pursuits, which he followed until 1861, when he removed to Warsaw.
IIe was married in 1831, to Miss Catharine Smith, a native of Columbia County, New York, and a daughter of William Smith, who was a native of New York and of German descent. They reared a family of six chil- dren, of whom our subject was the youngest, and the only one now living. The father died at the home of our subject, August 29, 1880, and the mother survived until Septem- ber 3, 1881.
The subject of this sketch received his education in the schools of Warsaw, and during the late civil war went into the army, serving in Company A, One Hundred and Thirty-Seventh Illinois Volunteer Infantry, as a private until nearly the close of the war.
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After this he began the study of medicine under the preceptorship of Dr. Collin G. Strong, now of San Francisco, California, with whom he remained for four years. IIe graduated at the State University of Iowa, at Keoknk, now known as the College of Physicians and Surgeons, February 21, 1870. He first located at Bentonsport, Van Buren County, remaining for one year. He then went to Atlantic, Cass County, and engaged in the drug business one year, and in 1872 he came to this county, engaging in the practice of medieine at Macedonia. Dr. Thomas remained in the "east end " of the county until he came to Council Bluffs, in 1887, where he formed his present partner- ship with Dr. D. Maerae.
He was married October 15, 1873, to Miss Mary Ella Ferrier, a native of Missouri, and daughter of John and Jane (Walker) Ferrier, of old Virginia families. They have three children: Ethyl, Edyth, and Evelyn. The Doetor has served as Coroner of this county from 1873 to 1875, and has also served on the School Board at Carson for several years. He is ex-president of the Council Bluffs Medieal Society, a member and secretary of the Medical Society of the Missouri Valley, a member of the Iowa State Medieal Society, and the American Medical Association. HIe is Professor of Diseases of the Mind in the Omaha State Medical College; President of the Board of Examining Surgeons of Pen- sions at Council Bluffs; is Medical Director of the National Fraternal Association of that. eity. Ile is a member of the G. A. R., and served as Medical Director of the State De- partment in 1889; is a member of the A. F. & A. M., Coral Lodge, No. 430, at Carson, and the Chapter and the Scottish Rite bodies at Council Bluffs. He is a member of the I. O. O. F. and the A. O. U. W. He and his wife are members of the Presbyterian Church.
Mrs. Thomas' father died in Cass County in 1886; her mother died in 1867.
IIE LONDON BROS. (E. T. and W. D.) are the proprietors of the London Livery, Sale and Feed stables at Carson, on Commercial Street, convenient to both the business part of town and the depot. They purchased this establishment in 1888, and keep in stock a goodly number of driving horses, roadsters and all kinds of vehicles for which there is any demand. They are experienced and practical livery men, and are popular. Their barn is the leading one in the town. They came to Pottawattamie County in 1884. E. T., the elder brother and the senior member of the firm was born at Knoxville, Marion County, Iowa, in 1858. His father, W. M. London, was a native of Morgan County, Illinois, served in the Fortieth Iowa Infantry during the war; and his mother, whose name before marriage was Nareisses Cloe, a native of Illi- nois. He was reared on the farm in Iowa. In 1876 he went to Chantanqua County, Kansas, and a year afterward to Johnson County, Missouri, and finally he came to Pottawattamie County, settling on a farm in Silver Creek Township. He was married, November 20, 1883, to Miss Mary London, a native of Marion County, Iowa, and they have two children: Ernest Wesley and Car- rie. In his political sympathies Mr. London is a Democrat, and is a member of the Camp of the Sons of Veterans.
W. D. London, the junior member of the above firm and a brother of J. C., was born August 31, 1862, in Marion County, Iowa, and was reared there on a farm. In 1876 he went to Kansas, and a year afterward to Mis- souri, where he resided until he came to Car-
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son; and there he has since been engaged in the livery business. He was married in Johnson County, Missouri, January 10, 1884, to Miss Sallie Douthit, a native of that county and a daughter of George Douthit. Their children are Goldie and Eula. Mr. London is a Democrat in his political prin- eiples and a genial eitizen.
J. CADY, proprietor of the Council Bluffs Veterinary Infirmary, at No. 135 Broadway, at the livery, feed and sale stables there, of which establishment he took possession in 1880, is a graduate of the Boston Veterinary Academy.
He was born in Lake County, Indiana, January 14, 1840, the son of Samuel J. and Elmira (Beebe) Cady, and of Puritan an- eestry. When he was three years of age the family removed to Chicago, where he grew up and was educated. He attended the Iowa College at Grinnell two terms, and then went to Boston, where he studied veterinary sei- enee, as already stated. In 1861. in August, he enlisted in Company B, Second Iowa Cav- alry, as a private; in 1862 he was commis- sioned Veterinary Surgeon, and as such served until the close of the war, being dis- charged as Chief of Cavalry on General Wilson's staff. The principal battles in which he participated were those of Farming- ton, Corinth (including siege), Stone River, Nashville, Murfreesboro, Holly Springs, Tu- pelo, Oxford, Booneville, etc.
After the war he spent one winter at Boonesboro, Iowa, doctoring horses; next he was a year in Council Bluffs, then in Kansas City and finally he returned to Council Bluffs, where he has since resided. The year 1872 he spent in Texas. Ife treats all diseases of horses, cattle, sheep and hogs; and his place
is well fitted up for the eare of animals. He also owns a good piece of property at 2201 Broadway.
He is a Republican, a member of the Union Veteran Legion, Surgeon of Abraham Lincoln post, No. 29, G. A. R., and Chaplain of the V. A. S.
He was married in 1867, to Miss Ellen Reynoldson, born in England in 1849, and they had three children: Fred, residing in Nebraska; Nellie and Mary. His wife died in 1879, and he was married again, in August, 1880, to Mrs. Liddie Harris, of Craig, Mis- souri, and by this marriage there is one child, T. Jackson by name. In 1890 Mrs. Dr. T. J. Cady, of the Berean Baptist Church at Coun- eil Bluffs, organized the young ladies of that church and congregation into a society to work for the "Christian Home," an unsec- tarian institution of that city established for the care of destitute and orphan children. This auxiliary organization, named the Be- rean Temple Society, gave its first public entertainment in October last (1890), under the leadership of Mrs. Cady, netting her $28.10 for the Home.
AMES M. DORTON, of section 34, Carson Township, was born in Decatur County, Indiana, March 29, 1847, the son of Harrison and Nancy (Mullin) Dorton, the former a native of Union County, In- diana, whose father was born in New Jersey, and the mother was also a native of Indiana. They reared tive children, of whom James M. was the third of three sons and two daughters. He resided in Decatur County, Indiana, until 1874, when he removed to Woodford County, Illinois, and then moved upon his present farm of eighty acres, which was then partly improved. He has since
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made many improvements, and everything about the farm shows the enterprise of the proprietor.
He was married in Decatur County, In- diana, August 29, 1870, to Miss Elizabeth E. Harding, who was born and educated in that county, and the danghter of Israel and Jane (Hawkens) Harding, both natives of Indiana. Mr. and Mrs. Dorton have two children: Nellie May and James Arthur. They have lost one by death, who died at the age of one year and nine months. Politically Mr. Dorton is a Republican, and has served the township as Assessor and as a member and president of the School Board. The fam- ily are members of the Presbyterian Church of Carson. He is a member of the I. O. O. F., Lodge No. 444, at Carson, Iowa. He is numbered socially, politically and financially among the solid men of the township.
AMUEL R. READ, of section 31, Car- son Township, came to this county in 1881. He was born in the Hoosier State, October 12, 1850, the son of Nathan and Malinda (Van Seoy) Read, the former a native of Virginia and the latter of Ohio. They had five sons and two daughters, of whom S. R. was the fourth child; two of his brothers, Smith and Jesse Read, are promi- nent and well-known business men of Don- lap, lowa. Our subject was a small boy when his father settled in Bureau County, Illi- nois, and was fifteen years of age when his father moved to Cerro Gordo County; Jowa, where they were early settlers. The mother died when Samuel was but seven or eight years old, in Illinois, and the father is now a resident of lowa, making his home in Mal- vern with his son Carson. The subject of this sketch passed his yonth in Cerro Gordo
County. They moved in 1874 to Mills Connty, near Malvern, where he lived until 1881. In that year he came to Pottawatta- mie County, and purchased eighty acres of wild land, which he has since improved. He is engaged in general farming and stock- raising, making a specialty of thoroughbred stoek. He has a thoroughbred Clyde horse, which is among the best draft horses in the county. It was brought from Canada and weighs 1,835 pounds; he has also a Mam- moth Jaek, which is one of the best in western Iowa. Mr. Read is a practical farm- er and a successful horseman.
Ile married Miss Julia M., a daughter of Robert L. and Margaretta (La Fever) Bush- nell. She was born in Rock County, Wis- consin, and her parents were natives of New York city. Mr. and Mrs. Read have five children: Alice L., Ervin E., Nettie, Mar- garetta and a baby, Joy. They have lost one by death, Minard, who died when a babe of eleven months; he was the fourth child. Politically Mr. Read is a Republican, and both he and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, of which they are active workers, and Mrs. Read is a teacher in the Sabbath-school.
HINEAS J. MONTGOMERY, M. D., homeopathie physician and surgeon, is one of the leading physicians of his school in western Iowa. Dr. Montgomery was born in Delaware County, New York, December 1, 1841. His father is Charles Fowler Montgomery. The family was origi- nally from Vermont and of Seoteh ancestry. The mother of the subject of this sketch was formerly Emeline E. St. John, and deseended directly from the St. Johns and Abbotts of England, her mother having been an Abbott.
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Her family were early settlers of Connecti- cut. The parents of Dr. Montgomery emi- grated from the State of New York to Wis- consin in 1852 and settled in Rock County, and later removed to Jefferson County, and are still residents of Waterloo in that county. The Doctor is the third in order of birth of six sons. There were also three daughters in the family.
The subject of this sketch was educated at Albion Academy, Wisconsin, and was for two years engaged in teaching, and for a time had charge of Waterloo Academy. He had contemplated from early life fitting himself for the medical profession, and entered upon a regular course of medical study in 1862, at which he continued until 1864, when he entered the army as assistant physician and surgeon in the hospital of the quartermas- ter's department. He continned in the army until after the destruction of the Confederate General Hood's army by the army under General Thomas; his field of service being with the army of the Tennessee. On his return from the army he entered the IIahne- mann Medical College at Chicago, at which he graduated in 1866. After his graduation le located in Medina County, Ohio, where he remained three years, when he returned to Wisconsin and located at Watertown. There he continued in the practice of his profession until 1872, when he came to Iowa and located at Osage, where he practiced until 1879. In the winter of that year he took a special course of lectures at Hahnemann College, Chicago, and also in the College of Physi- cians and Surgeons in that city. In 1880 lie came to Council Bluffs, where he has built up a large practice and is one of the leading physicians of the eity.
Dr. Montgomery was married in Wiscon- sin in 1864, to Miss Helen A. Castle, a na- tive of Ohio. They have two children:
Charles Frederick, born in Ohio in 1869, and now a student of Grinnell College, and a danghter, Ruth Evangeline, born in Council Bluffs in 1881.
ICHAEL MINAHAN, a merchant of Neola, was born in County Cork, Ireland, September 1, 1845, the son of Jeremiah and Mary (McCarty) Minahan, natives of the same county. At the age of twenty-six years Mr. Jeremiah Minahan, a farmer by vocation, was married, and in 1874 he came to America, sailing from Queens- town on the vessel named Berlin, and ten days later landed at New York. A few days afterward he came on to this county, locating in York Township, where he made his home with his son (onr subject) until his deatlı, October 13, 1878, but spending his last days with another son. IIe left a wife and four children. The children are: Dennis, residing in Neola Township; Michael, the second born; Hannah, the wife of Frank McManns. in Norwalk Township, and James, a resident of Chicago. The mother survives, and is living with her daughter, Mrs. McManus.
Mr. Michael Minahan was brought up in farm life. At the age of eighteen years he came to America, landing at New York in May, 1868. In a short time he went to Franklin, Venango County, Pennsylvania, where he remained a year and a half, working for the Lake Shore Railroad Company. Next he was in Cleveland, Ohio, until the spring of 1871, when he came to Iowa; and finally he came by stage, by way of Grand Junction, to Council Bluffs, and went to Atlantic, Iowa, and was employed by the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad Company until the fall of 1872. In the spring of 1873 he bought eighty acres of land but very little
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improved, in York Township, this county. Ile built thereon a frame honse 18 x 24 feet and a story and a half high, and the usual farm buildings, and began and carried for- ward a thorough improvement of the prem- ises. To his ordinary work as a farmer and stock-raiser he dealt extensively in cattle, Durham stock. He has added to his original purchase of land until he now has 200 acres of fine land, well improved, 120 being under the plow. In the fall of 1887 he rented the farm and moved into Neola, en- gaging in the grocery trade. ITere he bought a home, which he now ocenpies; and in the store he includes dry-goods in his trade, and carries on a general mercantile business. Ile has a good stock, and his reputation stands high for honesty and liberality. He now has a partner named Pogge. They do a business of about $20,000 yearly, being live and ener- getie men.
Mr. Minahan was married January 17, 1878, to Mary Stewart, who was the daughter of Benjamin F. and Ellen (Crampton) Stew- art, natives respectively of Ohio and Ireland. Mr. Stewart was a fireman and a policeman in Cineinnati for many years. In 1878 he came to lowa and lived in Neola until his death, July 23, 1886, leaving his wife and five children. The children are: Morris, re- siding in Conneil Bluffs; Mary, the second born, and wife of Mr. Minahan; Ellen, wife of Barney Jungerman, and living in Neola Township; Francis, residing in Omaha; and Eva, now the wife of William Tanner, and living in Wyoming Territory. Mrs. Mina- han was married at the age of twenty years, and there are now in the family the following children: James, who was born in York Town- ship, Pottawattamie County, Iowa, February 18, 1579; Kate, born July 10, 1883; Nellie. October 11, 1885; Annie, October 12, 1887; Frances was born in Neola, March 10, 1890.
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