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Rev. John Cauch was born in London, England, in 1830. He attended an academy in London, but finished his education in this country. In 1843 he came with his father, an Episcopal minister, and settled at Elgin, Illinois. For several years he worked on a farm and attended school during the winter seasons. In 1850 he attended the Elgin academy, and afterwards, for several years, the Kalamazoo college. He was licensed to preach as a Methodist minister in 1854, and preached the first year in the Canton circuit. After 1861 he became an elder of the Baptist society. In 1870 he came to Quasqueton as pastor of the Baptist society of that place and Win- throp. He attended lectures at Eclectic Medical school, Cincinnati, and graduated at the Bennett college in 1873. In 1855 he was married to Elizabeth Watson, of Aurora, Illinois, by whom he has five children-Elizabeth, born September 24, 1857; Willis S., born August 11, 1859; Lois, who died early; Nellie, born February 4, 1869; and John, born January, 1871. Mr. Cauch and his son W. S. edit and publish the only paper in Quasqueton, called The Weekly Telephone, which made its first appearance
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January 7, 1881. It does credit to its name, communi- cating the news of the week to a large number of sub- scribers.
J. M. Benthall was born in Princeton, Massachusetts, September 12, 1832; moved to Lowell in 1835, where he remained until 1850. During this time he gained an academic education and learned the dry goods business, spending one year in Boston in order to learn more about it. In 1854 he immigrated to Iowa, remaining a short time at Dubuque, closing business connected with his father's estate. In the month of April, 1855, he came to Quasqueton and entered into the milling business, to- gether with general merchandise, till the year 1862, when he entered the army in the Tenth Minnesota, serving three years to a day, first in the Indian wars of Iowa and Minnesota, going west in 1863 on an expedition to the Missouri river under Brigadier General Sibley; the balance of the three years in the South. On his return he went into business with C. H. Lewis, dissolving after two years. Began farming in 1870. In 1875 bought an elevator at Rowley, with grain and commission business, which he sold out in 1879. In 1855 he married Mary E. Stratton, of Boston, Massachusetts. She died in the spring of 1858, leaving a son, Frederick J., born Septem- ber 10, 1857. In 1870 he was married to Elizabeth D. Wilson, by whom he has had two children-Eugene D., born December, 1872; Mary, born February, 1877. He was regular war correspondent of the Buchanan County Guardian.
John B. Ginter was born in Defiance, Wayne county, Ohio, January 2, 1842. In the fall of 1849, his parents removed to Quasqueton. His father entered about three hundred acres of land, and the family remained upon the farm until 1865. His father died in 1853, and in 1867 the homestead was divided, and Mr. Ginter received forty acres. In 1864 he bought property in town and lived there four years. He then moved to the old homestead, and, by industry and energy, succeeded in saving enough to buy the Stoneman place. He now has a farm of one hundred and forty-one acres. Pays a great deal of atten- tion to horticulture. Married Mary E. Thorp, of Man chester, lowa, in 1865. Have had two children-Carrie F., born March 7, 1866; Kate, born November 13, 1772. Mr. Ginter was a Douglas Democrat, and one of the right kind.
George Ginter was born in Wayne county, Ohio, Feb- ruary 22, 1837. During early life he worked on the farm, acquiring his education at district schools, which was, as he says, "a very small smattering at that." Came into Iowa with three teams in 1849. At that time there was a saw-mill and grist-mill at Quasqueton, and his father bought that piece of property of eighty acres with the house upon it, which is standing at the present time, oc- cupied by his brother, Henry Ginter. His father entered one hundred and sixty acres in Cono, and two hundred and twenty in Liberty. In the spring of 1864 he went on a tour to Pike's Peak. His father died in 1853, and he assumed the management of the land, and continued till 1867. He now runs a farm of forty acres. In 1867 he married Mary J. McDonough, of Quasqueton.
Colonel O. Wilson was born in Orwell, Vermont, Feb- ruary 26, 1805. His father was Judge Ebenezer Wilson, judge of the circuit court in Genesee county, New York, and member of the assembly of New York for a succession of years, until his death in 1830. The family is of Scotch descent, their name being formerly spelled with two I's. When but three years old his father moved to Middlebury, Genesee county, New York. In 1841, moved to Batavia, Illinois. He received his education at the Middlebury academy. Engaged in mercantile business with his brother in Genesee county, for ten years. After several business changes, moved in 1866, to Quasqueton, purchasing the beautiful Thompson property. In the spring of 1830, he married Betsy Hoyt, of Middlebury, New York, who lived eleven months, leaving one son, W. Scott Wilson, born April 28, 1831. In 1838 he married Antiverta Egesta Smith, of Genesee county, New York, by whom he has had five children: first boy dying in infancy, born December 31, 1838; Libbie Delia, born December 18, 1839; James S., born December 11, 1840; girl, born July 30, 1841, dying before it was named; Arthur Douglas, born Janu- ary 5, 1846. The colonel was a prominent member of society and highly respected by all. He died January 22, 1875.
William Lewis was born in Scandinavia, Erie county, New York, January 2, 1833. In 1840 his family re- moved to Chemung, McHenry county, Illinois, where his father built a saw-mill on the Piscasaw, between Big Foot and Long Prairie. From there he moved to Buffalo Grove, Root county, Illinois, and, in 1850, moved to Independence, Iowa,-the family being about the third on the west side. His father started a chair factory, erecting a building twenty-two by forty, two stories high, on the site now occupied by Clark's drug store, which business he continued about a year and a half. His edu- cation was received at the district schools. He attended one of the first schools at Independence, O. H. P. Ros- zell being the teacher. In December, 1853, he went to California by New York and the Isthmus, where he en- gaged principally in mining, making lots of money and losing it again, roaming in parts of the Pacific coast for fourteen years. In October, 1867, he again landed in Bu- chanan county, where, in 1869, he bought out Mr. Day's drug business, which business he has continued till the present time, save an interval of six months, when John Chesley had the stock of goods. In 1863 he joined company H, Second cavalry, California volunteers, in which he served until after the war. Mr. Lewis was married in 1878 to Sarah J. Hovey.
Dr. H. O. Dockham was born in Wentworth, Cross county, New Haven, April 27, 1831. His education was acquired at the district school, Newbury seminary, and Darthmouth college, graduating in 1851. He attended the Woodstock Medical school, Vermont, graduating in 1857. His intervening time was spent in teaching and assisting in proof reading in German, Latin, etc., for the Riverside Publishing company, Cambridge, Massachu- setts. He went as assistant to Professor Morse, of Northwestern university, to Europe, making a tour of
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the continent, being absent two years. On his return he located at Boston as a practicing physician, continu- ing there until 1875. During this time he made two extensive trips, each of four months duration, at one time going as far north as the straits of Belleisle to ob- tain cod liver oil, and for recreation. He came to Iowa in 1876, and was medical examiner for the Iowa Life Insurance company, making his headquarters at Win- throp, Iowa. The next year he moved to Quasqueton, and located there permanently. In 1862-3 he had a commission from the Government as surgeon; he then enlisted in company D, Second Massachusetts heavy ar- tillery. He served one and one-half years in the field, and was soon appointed regimental assistant surgeon, which position he held to the close of the war. In 1850 he married Mary A. Burback, of Haverhill, Vermont. Six months after his marriage his wife was killed by fall- ing off of an overloaded piazza, on the fourth of July, 1851. In 1854 he married Roxana Howe, of Corinth, Maine, by whom he has had six children-Emma C., born December 20, 1857; B. H., born November, 1859, supposed to have been lost at sea in May, 1876; Charles K., born November 27, 1861; Ella J., born June, 1863; Henry W., born October 17, 1865; George H., born December 20, 1867. His wife died February 12, 1868. In March, 1877, he married Miss Mary E. Whitney, daughter of James W. Whitney, of Quasqueton.
Richmond L. Wright, son of Rev. Alfred Wright, was born in Paris, Monroe county, Missouri, October 8,. 1837. In 1846 he came to Anamosa, and in 1853, to Quasqueton, where his father organized a church of his denomination. His education was acquired at district schools and a part at Cornell college. In 1855 he en- gaged in burning brick with his uncle, Ransom Wright, to which business he has devoted a part of his time ever since. In 1857 he began to work his father's farm near town. In the spring of 1858 he bought eighty acres, and now has three hundred and ten acres in Liberty. In 1870 he bought the Rock Glen farm. In 1875 he built a cheese factory and creamery. In 1863 he married Lizzie Pease, by whom he has four children: William Pease, Louise B., Delia C., and Charles Alfred.
Rev. Alfred Wright died in Marshall county, Novem- ber 18, 1865, aged sixty-two; a native of Massachusetts; graduated at Amherst and Auburn Theological seminary. He spent his life in the home mission service-fifteen years in Missouri, but the last nineteen in Iowa. He organized the Congregational church at Anamosa, and eight years afterward removed to Quasqueton.
Edward D. Hovey was born May 22, 1825, in Tioga county, New York, of Scotch descent, and one of seven children. He was educated at the district school, at- tending three months of the year. After he had arrived at the age of fourteen, he worked at the carpenter and joiner's trade, continuing till he was nineteen years old. Then he engaged in the milling business, and continued at Union in Broom county during 1846. He then went to Laporte, Indiana, and commenced the wagon trade with his brother, remaining there three years and a half. In 1850 he came to Iowa, roaming through the State,
and finally settling at Burlington; there engaged in wagon-making. In 1852 he came to Quasqueton, and engaged in milling three and a half years-also at Inde- pendence, and at Fairbank one year. He then went to Quasqueton again, living on his farm near that town for five years; has worked at his trade since. He owns a farm of one hundred and sixty acres under well improved. He married Mary E. Cooper ; one child-Clara E., born December 5, 1839. Mr. Hovey is a Republican in pol- itics.
Charlie E. Kent was born in Suffield, Hartford county, Connecticut, July 7, 1816, of Welch descent-his mother's family coming from Wales in 1837. In 1825 he moved to Suffield, Portage county, Ohio, and was educated chiefly in district schools, also attending the academy at Talmadge. When seventeen, he commenced clerking in a store of general merchandise, continuing until 1837, when he went to Richmond, Virginia, clerk- ing in a wholesale dry goods house with an uncle until 1840; then went into business with William Jones at Mogadore, Ohio, and continued for a number of years- then at Cleveland in the grocery trade till 1850. He then went to Medina, where he was engaged in a general store until 1855. He then came to Quasque- ton, clerking for Benthall a short time, when he went into business with Robert Lewis. In 1865 he had R. N. Soper as partner, and continued business until 1878, since which time he has supervised his farm of eighty acres. He was married in 1844, to Margaret Wilson, and again, January 2, 1852, to Harriet A. Forman.
Alexander Crooks was born at Monavore, Derry coun- ty, Ireland, May 17, 1819. In 1825 he emigrated to Quebec, Canada, thence to New York city. He was educated at public school until between twelve and thir- teen. Clerked in grocery store two years; he was then apprenticed to a tailor and served three years; worked at his trade till August, 1838, then removed to Carroll county, Ohio. Worked as journeyman one year and then opened shop till October, 1856, when he came to Quas- queton. Opened a shop for three years more; clerked with Hunsicher ; since which time he has been engaged principally in official business. In 1865 he was elected sheriff of Buchanan county, serving two years-lived then at Independence. A Republican in politics, he has held all of the township offices, except trustee. Always has been an active worker in politics. Was married June 24, 1839, to Hannah Johnson, of Lueburgh, Carroll county, Ohio. Has had seven children : Mary D., born May 16, 1840, died August 29, 1872; Elizabeth, born November 20, 1842, died September 24, 1872; Martha A., born June 11, 1846; Melville J., born January 6, 1849; Alvin B., born June 22, 1852; Ivan A., born Oc- tober 28, 1855; and Elwood C., born September 8, 1858, died 1875.
Joshua Perkins was born in Woodstock, Maine, June 3, 1827, his father being a Baptist minister. His edu- cation was received in the various towns in which his father was located. In 1845 he engaged in peddling until 1848. Went to Newton, Massachusetts, where he worked three years in the paper mill of James Rice, jr.
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Went then to Chelsey, where he was in the express busi- ness between there and Boston. He was then on a farm for nearly two years ; also worked some at the carpenter's trade. He then went into the grocery business with a partner; then alone for a few months. In September, 1857, came to Quasqueton. Worked at carpenter work and bought a house for three hundred dollars, paying one hundred dollars in work. Has been engaged in car- pentering ever since; for the last seven years gradually working out of it as he has improved his farm of over eighty acres. In 1858 he married Lucy F. Leatherman, daughter of Daniel Leatherman, of Quasqueton.
B. G. Taylor was born in Bradford county, Pennsyl- vania, December 8, 1825. Until fifteen years of age he lived on a farm ; then went on the road, travelling through northern Pennsylvania, western New York, and Ohio, for nine years-save one year spent in the pineries of Pennsylvania-in the jewelry business. January 13, 1854, he came to Quasqueton, bringing teams to Chica- go by rail. First year was engaged in farming and team- ing, then in trade for over two years. In 1861 he sold out to Mr. Vincent, intending to improve the one hun- dred and forty acres of land he then owned, and has re- mained there ever since, adding to his farm until he now owns over eight hundred acres, nearly all under good cultivation. He is largely engaged in stock-raising. In 1851 he was married to Mary Kershner, of Danesville, New York, by whom he has two children: Ella, born June 13, 1853; Della K., born February 8, 1860. Is in politics a Republican, and has been frequently a delegate to the county convention.
William D. Boies was born near Buffalo, New York, August 24, 1819. His education was acquired in the common schools and Springville academy. Worked with his father on his farm until he was twenty-eight. On the twentieth day of May, 1847, he came to Boone county, Illinois, where he entered one hundred and sixty acres, and buying other pieces until he had a farm of four hundred acres. In 1873 came to Quasqueton, where he purchased the "Hatch place," consisting of about five hundred acres, to which he has added as much more, so that he now has one of the largest farms in the county, nearly all under cultivation or in pasture. Here he started the first cheese factory of the vicinity, manufacturing the milk of seventy-five cows into that staple, and raising besides large numbers of cattle and hogs; of these last selling about two thousand dollars worth per year.
In 1846 he was married to Sarah Bugbee, of Erie county, New York, by whom he has had six children: Eugene, born May 3, 1848 ; Horace L., born November I, 1850 ; Inez, born April 1, 1852; William D., born January 3, 1857 ; Charles E., born January 15, 1859 ; Alice S., born October 17, 1861 ; died August 9, 1863. In politics he is a Republican ; having served several terms as supervisor of Boone county, Illinois. He is an active member of the Methodist church.
William McCay was born in Antrim, Ireland, October, 1825. He went to school during the winters at the National schools. When twenty-one he came to New
York city ; worked in a provision store for three years, then moved to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, engaged as a laborer, remaining two years. In the fall of 1852 came to Newton township ; entering, in the course of two years, two hundred acres, which he spent some time in improving-at the same time buying and selling. At one time he had a farm of over four hundred acres. In 1850 he married Elizabeth McKee, of New York city. He has one child, Mary Elizabeth, born January 22, 1858. He was naturalized in 1851 ; voted the Democratic ticket until 1861 ; but has been a Republican since that time.
A. T. Cooper was born in Peachbottom, York county, Pennsylvania, October 31, 1833 ; when one and a half years old he removed to Belmont county, Ohio. After nearly two years went to Tuscarawas county, Ohio ; thence to Harrison county, where he remained until 1850, gaining his education at district schools and work- ing on a farm. In this year he came to Quasqueton, where he attended one term of the Quasqueton schools. He devoted most of his time to his father's farm until he was twenty-two. He then broke prairies and ran a thresher for nine years. Then he bought a farm near town, and commenced improving it. He has added to it several times since, until he now has two hundred acres of prairie and some timber land. In October, 1878, moved to town in order to educate his children ; since which time he has supervised the farm. He was married November 7, 1858, to Susanna Logan, of Quasqueton, by whom he has four children: Hugh Ramsey, born October 15, 1859; Berta, born September 28, 1863; Mina, born July 29, 1865 ; Lizzie, born May 21, 1875. Was a Republican until the great Greeley campaign, when he become a reformer-now sympathizes with the Green- back party.
Solomon Swartzel was born in Montgomery county, Ohio, November 25, 1813 ; remained there until of age, aiding his father. He bought one hundred and thirty acres of woodland, and cleared up seventy five acres. Having a large family he determined to emigrate. In the spring of 1851 he started with a top buggy to seek a location ; travelling through Indiana and Illinois, and saw nothing which he would pull up stakes for, until he came to Buchanan county. Here he bought of Billings one hundred and ninety acres, and then went to the land office at Dubuque and entered two quarter sec- tions. There was nothing upon the place but an "Indian shanty." Twenty-eight years ago he built the house that is now standing on the place ; hauling the lum- ber from Dubuque. On the twenty-eighth of May, 1835, married Judah Stahler, of Montgomery county, Ohio, by whom he has five children : Henry, born August 6, 1836 ; David, born October 30, 1837; Mary Ann, February 26, 1839; Elizabeth, July 9, 1841 ; Carolina November 21, 1843.
September 30, 1862, he was married to Martha Nerdigh, of Liberty township. She was born in Harris- burgh, Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, April 20, 1829. Mr. Swartzel has managed his farm as a stock and grain farm. He has kept for a number of years
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thoroughbred horses, cattle and hogs. He raised the celebrated horse " Silas Rich," which afterward sold for seventeen thousand dollars.
James Biddinger was born in Mill township, Tusca- rawas county, Ohio, on the second day of June, 1820. Here he received his education and farmed until twen- ty-three, though during seven summers he worked on the Ohio canal as steersman. In the fall of 1843 he came to Quasqueton, and in the following February deeded eighty acres on which he now lives, afterwards adding largely to it. He has been engaged principally in grain farming. He was married in 1845 to Rebecca Cum- mings, of Harrison county, Ohio, by whom he has eleven children : Philip, born May 15, 1846; Sophia, born May 17, 1849; Samuel D., born September 30, 1855; Caro- line, born September 10, 1857; Lillie E., born April 30, 1859; James H., born January 3, 1861; John Franklin, born April 26, 1864; Luella M., born January 25, 1866; Mary Etta, born April 15, 1871 ; Allen Taylor, born Au- gust 29, 1874; and Gertie, born March 5, 1878. Mr. Biddinger is the oldest resident citizen of the township, and has the respect of all that know him.
M. R. Adams was born in Coshocton county, Ohio, October 23, 1840. His education was acquired in the district schools of Ohio and at the schools in Quasque- ton. In 1856 he came to Buchanan county, where he attended school and worked at farming. After about three years, having spent one season in Ohio, he bought one hundred and sixty acres, partially improved, to which he has added until he now has two hundred and sixty- seven acres in Liberty township, which he manages as a stock and grain farm. December 24, 1861, he was mar- ried to Nancy Jane Logan, of Quasqueton. He has five children: Gelia W., born April 4, 1863; Ulysses G., born April 4, 1865; Hattie Zula, born June 16, 1866; Charles F., born January 25, 1869; Lewes E., born October 25, 1877. In politics Mr. Adams is a staunch Republican.
Warren Chase was born October 14, 1843, in Ellicotts- ville, Cattaraugus county, New York. In 1856 he immi- grated to Iowa, stopping over at Sandwich De Kalb county, Illinois, arriving at Waucon, Allamakee county, in 1857. Here he followed the life of a laborer. His
education was acquired at the schools of Waucon and Independence. In February, 1859, he came to Quas- queton, where he tarmed for himself for two years. In 1866 he bought one hundred and sixty acres, unim- proved, in Cone township. After farming this and im- proving fitty acres, he sold it, returned to Quasqueton, and engaged in teaming and carrying into effect a mail contract to Anamosa. In 1870 he finished a contract on the asylum and several bridge contracts, and in 1871 commenced well-drilling, in which he continued until 1875. February 26, 1876, he was admitted to the bar at Independence, since which time he has engaged in the practice of law. On the eighth day of August, 1862, he enlisted in company H, Twenty-seventh Iowa volunteer infantry, serving in Minnesota, his regiment going up among the Chippewas, paying them off, etc. He then went south, his regiment serving in western and northern Mississippi. He was discharged at Moscow in August
of 1863. October 14, 1863, he was married at Quas- queton. He has six children: Charles, born October 29, 1864; Anna M., born February 1, 1866; Fred, boin September 20, 1867; Minnie, born August 11, 1869; Chloe, born June 21, 1872; Myrta, born September 29, 1877. In politics he was a Republican until 1872, when he became an Anti-monopolist, and is now allied with the Greenbackers.
John C. Neidy, one of seven children, was born near- ly opposite Harrisburgh, Cumberland county, Pennsyl- vania, August 11, 1821. When about ten years of age he removed to Wayne county, Ohio, where he remained until 1850. His education was obtained in winters, at the district schools, he being engaged in farming during the rest of the year. In 1850 he came to Liberty town- ship, settling upon one hundred and sixty acres of tim- ber land, which he then owned. Finding that it was too hard work, especially as there was plenty of prairie land, he entered eighty acres in the same township, and not long after got forty acres, at government price, buying eighty acres more to improve, to which he added until he had nine hundred and twenty acres. A part of this he divided with his children, retaining one hundred and sixty-five acres. He has been an extensive grain farmer, though now, with his son David, he is running a stock and dairy farm. September 7, 1843, he was married to Nancy Wilson, of Wayne county, Ohio, by whom he has four children: William H., born August 6, 1844, died July 3, 1847; Lucinda Jane, born September 26, 1846; David Wilson, born June 6, 1849; Mary Susan, born May 17, 1851. From the foundation of the party he has been a zealous Republican.
John Moore was born in Washington county, Penn- sylvania, October 4, 1816. In 1828 he went to Tusca- rawas county, Ohio. His education was gained at dis- trict schools, as is the case with farmers' sons. When about eighteen he conducted the home farm himself, and continued on the place until 1855. In the fall of this year he immigrated to Buchanan county. Here he first bought one hundred acres, and traded his Ohio farm for more, partly timber and partly prairie. This land is now managed as a stock farm. October 28, 1841, he was married to Sophia Biddinger, of Tusca- rawas county, Ohio, by whom he has nine children: Mary Elizabeth, born September 21, 1842 ; Nancy El- len, born November 27, 1844; Sarah Catharine, born June 21, 1847, died November 4, 1874; John Taylor, born December 14, 1849; Marvilla, born May 9, 1852 ; Louis L., born February 20, 1855; Rachel A., born May 10, 1858; James Henry, born February 21, 1860; and Martha Adella, born December 1, 1862. He has been a Republican since the organization of the party, and is "one of the few " that never have aspired to office.
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