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ANDREW J. GOODELL.
Andrew J. Goodell, a railway postal clerk living in Spencer, was born in Erie county, New York, September 16. 1845, a son of John M. and Hannah (Baldwin) Goodell, who were natives of New Hampshire and Vermont, respect- ively, and parents of the following children: William and Tirzah A., both deceased ; Mary Jane, wife of A. K. Frain, of Chicago; Caroline, deceased ; and
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Andrew J. John M. Goodell went to Illinois at an early day and kept a hotel in Somonauk, DeKalb county, where he departed this life when seventy-five years old. His wife, who was a member of the Christian church passed away in Spencer, October 29, 1896, at the age of ninety-one years. Theophilus Baldwin, the maternal grandfather, a farmer and native of Vermont, died at the age of sixty-eight years. His wife, Hannah (Mann) Baldwin was also long-lived. To this union were born five children, three of whom died early in life, while John P. attained the age of eighty years, and Mrs. Hannah Goodell was ninety-one years.
In New York state Andrew J. Goodell lived until he was twelve years old, the first seven years being spent in Erie county and the remaining five in Cayuga county, in both of which places he attended the district schools and assisted his father in the work of the farm. When fifteen years of age he left home and. starting out in the world for himself, he secured employment at which he remained until he was sixteen years and eleven months old, when he enlisted in Company E, One Hundred and Thirteenth Illinois Volunteer Infantry, in which he served as a private soldier from August, 1862, until June, 1865. He took part in the following battles: Arkansas Post, Price's Crossroads, Eastport, Alabama, and a number of skirmishes. At the close of the war he was united in marriage and removed to Buchanan county, Iowa, but after four years' residence there he repaired to Clay county and settled on one hundred and sixty acres of land, situated six miles north of Spencer, which he cultivated for a period of fifteen years. Giving up agriculture, he engaged in railroad grading for two years and during that time assisted in building the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad and for the past twenty years he has been in the railway mail service.
On February 22, 1866. Mr. Goodell wedded Miss Ceressa Elderkin, who passed away in 1887, leaving her husband and six children, namely: L. T., William and Stella, deceased ; Harry M .; Eva; and Howard in Hartley, a printer by trade but now farming in Burnett county, Wisconsin, where he resides with his children : Naomi, Mary, and Helen, wife of Frank Goodale, the couple living three miles west of Spencer, with their children : Star and Mary ; Howard, served four years in the United States navy and now resides at Hartley, Iowa. On June 16, 1891, Mr. Goodell was again united in marriage to Grace M. Wood, daughter of Norman H. and Harriet M. (Wilcox) Wood. Mr. and Mrs. Goodell belong to the First Congregational church. He is a member of Evening Shade Lodge, No. 312, A. F. & A. M .; Clay Chapter, No. 112, R. A. M .; Evening Shade Chapter, No. 116, of the Eastern Star, of which his wife is also a member ; and Annett Post, G. A. R. Politically Mr. Goodell gives his support to the republican party. He resides at No. 347 West Third street, where he owns an attractive home.
SAMUEL GILLESPIE.
Samuel Gillespie was born near Lafayette, Indiana, June 17, 1843. He continued to live in that part of the country until 1869, when he went to the Pacific coast and spent there two years in teaching He came to Clay county, Iowa, in the spring of 1871, locating in Peterson and assisting in the publication
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of the Clay County News, the first permanent paper published in the county. The fall of 1871 he moved to Spencer, with the newspaper with which he was connected, and has since continued to reside there, devoting most of the intervening years to work on the News.
M. B. SWIFT.
Since the spring of 1882 M. B. Swift has lived in Clay county. He came to this locality in the full strength of his manhood, realizing the opportunities of life, and imbued with a determination to make the most of his chances. He now lives on section 20, Meadow towiiship, and the farm of eighty acres which he owns is devoted to the cultivation of grain, to the raising of stock and to the conduct of a dairy business. It is now a well improved property.
Mr. Swift was born in Allegany county, New York, August 10, 1851, and the days of his boyhood and youth were there passed, while advantages offered by the common schools enabled him to become familiar with those branches of learning which are regarded as essential as a preparation for life's practical duties. He cannot remember his father, Zipha Swift, for he was left an orphan at a very early age and has had to depend upon his own resources since the age of eight years. He worked by the month for some years and this period was one of earnest and unremitting toil. In 1881 he made his way westward to Illinois, going first to Woodstock, McHenry county, where for one year he worked on a farm belong- ing to an uncle. In the spring of 1882 he came to Iowa and again was employed at farm labor by the month in Clay county. He did similar work in North Dakota and in 1883. with the capital which he had saved from his earnings, he purchased the place upon which he now resides and began to till and improve the farm. He has since fenced the place, has erected substantial buildings, has set out considerable fruit and now has an excellent property. His residence, the barn, and the outbuildings for the shelter of grain and stock were also erected by him, and he is numbered among the active and progressive farmers of the community. He raises stock, making a specialty of raising and fattening hogs, and he also conducts a dairy business and keeps a large number of cattle. He is likewise a stockholder in the Langdon Cooperative Creamery and also in the Fostoria Elevator Company. His business affairs have been carefully managed and his capable control of his interests has brought him well merited success.
On the 2d of August, 1884, in Clay county, Iowa, Mr. Swift was married to Miss Elizabeth Owen, who was born in Dupage county. Illinois, and is a daughter of Charles Owen, who was a farmer of Dupage county but became an early settler of Clay county and located a homestead in Meadow township. Mrs. Swift was only eight or ten years of age when she came to Iowa with her parents. Here she was reared, continuing her education in the schools of Spencer, and prior to her marriage she engaged in teaching. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Swift have been born four sons but only two are now living. Roy D. and Coy N., who are assisting their father in carrying on the home farm. They lost their first born, Samuel. in infancy, while their youngest child. Claud. also died when a habe.
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Mir. Swift is a Mason, holding membership in the lodge at Spencer and in his life he exemplifies the beneficent spirit of the craft. His study of the political questions of the day has led him to believe that the republican party contains the best elements of good government and he gives to it his support where national issues are involved. At local elections, however, he votes independently, nor will he consent to hold office. He is a man of high business principles, thoroughly reliable in all his trade transactions and to his unflagging industry and well directed effort may be attributed the success that he has attained.
F. D. WAGGONER.
F. D. Waggoner, a substantial farmer and highly respected citizen of Logan township, this county, where he is proprietor of a large farm upon which he engages in general agriculture and stock-raising, is a native of Allen county, Kansas, where his birth occurred November 22, 1873, and a son of Levi Addison and Fanny Rachel (Jerrett) Waggoner, his father being a native of Ashtabula, Ohio, who located in Allen county, Kansas, in 1859, later removing to Neosho county, this state, where he still resides, carrying on farming together with work at the carpenter trade. His wife was born near Cumberland, Kentucky, and they were married in Kansas, where they are still living. They were parents of the following children : Frank, a bookmaker at the race track in Oakland, California ; Joseph F., who is an agriculturist in Neosho county, Kansas, and is the twin brother of the subject of this review; Lydia, who became the wife of Henry Thurman, who engages in general farming and stock-raising in Neosho county, Kansas; Harry, railroad engineer, who resides at Chanute, Kansas : Effie, who is united in marriage with Russ Perry, a farmer in Neosho county, Kansas ; Fannie, wife of Harvey McConnell, a well driller who lives in Chanute, Kansas ; Levi, a merchant living in Petrolia, Allen county, Kansas; and F. D.
The common schools afforded F. D. Waggoner his education, after acquiring which he remained at home until he was eleven years of age, at which period of his life he was employed by an uncle, with whom he remained for three years and then went to the Indian Territory, from which place he made an extensive tour of the west and returned to his native state, remaining there until 1901. He then came to this county and assumed the management of a farm owned by G. M. Dyer, the farm consisting of five hundred acres, but within five years he left this position and came to Logan township. locating on section No. 32. where he has since remained carrying on a general agricultural business and in addition paying. some attention to stock-raising.
On September 22, 1905, Mr. Waggoner was united in marriage to Miss Emma Hurley, daughter of John and Nancy Catherine (Fritz) Hurley. Her father is a native of Indiana, now operating a farm in Wilson county, Kansas, where he resides with his wife. They had the following children : Isaiah Mc. Allen, of Minnesota ; Jeannette Rose, wife of G. M. Dyer, a general merchant of Iowa ; Mary L., who wedded Curtis Camp, of Albert City, Buena Vista county, Iowa ;
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George Sylvester, who has farming interests in Kansas; Effie F. A., wife of Miller Cooley, an agriculturist of Kansas: Alma S., who became the wife of George Hostig, also a farmer of Kansas: and Emma. To Mr. and Mrs. Waggoner has been born one child, John Addison, who is now entering his third year.
Mr. Waggoner is loyal to the republican party and although he is not an office seeker. he uses his influence during campaigns in behalf of the candidates of his party. He belongs to the Ancient Order of United Workmen, meeting in Earleton, Neosho county, Kansas, and to the Ayrshire Lodge, I. O. O. F. Mr. Waggoner is a man whose enterprising qualities have staid by him in the attainment of his present prosperity, and being a man of good character and interested in the general welfare of the township he is numbered among its substantial and desirable citizens.
HISTORICAL
PAGE
Introduction
7
The Indian and His Fate.
8
First Land Title in Iowa
18
Early Settlement
18
Topography
25
Educational Institutions
28
State Institutions
33
Celebration of Fiftieth Anniversary, by J. C. Parish.
38
Clay County
42
Climate, Organization
43
Pioneers
Creation of Townships
54
Sioux
54
Gillett's Grove
55
Peterson
58 59 60
Douglas
63
Riverton
64
Summit
65 65
Freeman
67
Herdland
68
Lincoln
69
Garfield
70 70
Clay
Reminiscences by J. A. Kirchner
72 78
Recollections of a Pioneer
80
Removal of the County Seat.
82
First Railroad
87
Official Roster
109
Bench and Bar
121
Schools
128
Agricultural Societies
131
Peterson
138
Everly
141
Other Towns
141
Spencer
2
Logan
Waterford
71
46
Lone Tree
Lake
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BIOGRAPHICAL
Adams, John
PAGE 232
Cauvel, Calvin
267
Addington, J. L. 314
Chatterton, H. L. 404
Ady, J. S. 609
Cheevers, John 440
Aebly, Henry 54S
Christensen, C. P.
424
Alexander, J. H. 372
Christensen, Knud 590
Alvord, F. G. 288
Christenson, Peter 588
Anderson, Alfred 371
Clapper, Cummins
554
Anderson, Andrew 589
Coleman, F. J. 264
Cook, J. W. 366
Atwood, Ira
626
Corcoran, Hugh 517
Atwood, L. L. 270
Cornwall, W. W. 428
Crone, Christian 637
Crow, W. J.
377
Cruver, W. B.
555
Bailey, Eben 287
Bailey, T. L. 399
Bailey, W. B.
286
Barnhart, W. E. 294
Derry, E. M. 268
Batcheler, J. W.
229
Doty, J. H. 316
Beeks, W. J.
402
Dunwell, C. A. 222
Belknap, C. W.
280
Bender, G. B.
663
Benthall, Eugene
435
Eekley, W. O. 599
Eggers, H. W. 155
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Bittinger, H. C.
640
Elder, James 658
Black, F. H.
331
Elless, T. M. 604
Boland, P. H.
670
Bowman, W. P
500
Brandon, A. L.
608
Breidinger, E. W. 586
Farmer, H. L. 506
Fell, John 391
Bronson, Wirt
237
Fell, Michael 570
Brown, G. S. 543
Ferguson, Samuel 448
Brusie, Frank
636
Fisk, Samuel 252
Buckey, C. P.
526
Fisk, U. D. 644
Burger, Jacob 474
Flint, A. A. 613
Burger, J. B. 463
Flint. E. P. 253
Bailey, C. B. 337
Culver, W. W. 369
Delaney, T. E. 653
Durant, W. J. 660
Beving, D. E.
385
Bicknell, J. J.
306
Eiler, George 558
Bronson, Earl 420
Erffmeyer, O. H. 473
Ewoldt, George 645
Anderson, G. W. 642
Avery, A. H. 490
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5
BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX
PAGE
Floete, Franklin
651
Kinyon, A. B. 406
Kirchner, J. A. 340
Kirchner, William 417
Kirkpatrick, Fred
421
Knight, A. T. 350
Kraemer, J. J. 305
Kruse, John 530
Gabrielson, F. A. 617
Gadsby, Thomas 388
Gallaher, W. F. 671
Gillespie, Samuel 679
Lahmon, Lewis 334
Lammers, Julius 221
603
Goldsworthy, J. T. 535
Goodell, A. J. 678
Lawler, J. J.
275
Lemaster, J. W.
569
Lewis, J. B.
577
Lieneman, Peter
649
Livingston, A. J.
384
Logan, D. J., Sr.
242
Long, D. D. 447
Lorenzen, John
405
Lundt, D. F. 585
Lundt, Henry 586
McAllister, Charles 215
McConnell, A. F. 623
McDowell, J. W. 247
McHugh, G. E. 277
McKee, Fred 675
McPherson, Thomas 488
McQueen, Thomas 656
McWhirter, John 616
Manning, G. W. 492
Marker, E. F. 226
Marr, W. J. 231
Marsh, Alonzo 546
Miller, A. O. 582
580
Miller, P. M. 595
622
Mills, G. W.
Mills, J. E. 360
452
Moeller, G. W. 304
Moeller, Rudolph 412
Moore, P. M.
322
. Morrow, Alexander 353
Jones, A. T. 358
Jones, C. B.
633
Jones, D. O. 672
Jones, Evan 476
Jones, H. E. 254
Jones, T. H. 564
Judson, W. A. 615
375
Hurd, L. M.
Hurt, T. J. 527
Huss, Frank 470
James, Watkins 430
Jelden, John 313
Johns, C. F. 639
Johnson, Henry 339
Johnson, James 437
Johnson, Martin 312
Johnston, J. C. 565
Newman, M. O. 483
Ney, W. T. 227
O'Brien, Joseph 238
Odle. D. M.
541
Olson, T. L.
629
Hardin, A. G. 508
Hartman, J. W. 378
Harvey, N. C.
667
Heikens, R. G. 674
Hendricksen, H. W. 324
Hendricksen, J. P. 220
Hennings, N. J. 352
Herrinton, E. B. 520
Hilliard, Archie 217
Hjelm, L. J. 365
Hoffman, F. W. 600
Hofstad, Matthew 462
Hofstad, Olaf 434
Hopkins, John 230
Howe, C. R. 607
Miller, A. W.
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Frad, S. D. 512
Freeburg, Gustaf 538
French, James 327
French, J. W. 529
Gleason, G. A.
584
Gloyd, J. R. 346
Landers, E. A.
Lauck, M. L. 606
Green, H. O. 475
Green, J. S. 278
Greene, A. W. 502
Griggs, T. D. 596
Gruchow, Albert 219
La Brant, L. E. 484
Lafurge, G. W. 666
Mills, J. P.
BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX
PAGE
PAGE
Paddock, A. J.
510
Sokol, J. M. 482
Parker, G. H.
394
Squire, F. A.
568
Perine, A. C.
261
Staples, F. M. 567
Petersen, Chris
401
Stark, D. J. 646
Pinneo, C. M.
262
Steele, J. E.
676
Pitcher, Benjamin 296
Struck, Fred 310
Powell, T. P. 471
Swift, M. B. 680
Randall, E. S. 612
Thuirer, C. L. 338
Raveling, Jacob 557
Tillinghast, Sam 537
Redfield, J. A.
545
Tischer, J. P. 619
Rice, W. R.
282
Torbert, W. F.
300
Riedinger, Conrad 493
Riley, F. P.
244
Turner, E. F.
259
Riley, John 625
Ringering, John 643
Waggoner, F. D. 681
Roberts, T. L. 354
Wahlstrom, Malakias 263
Robison, C. A. 457
Wallace. D. C. 552
Rogers, C. S. 414
Walstrom, Carl 650
Rood, W. I. 297
Warren, William 392
Watson, R. S. 528
Watson. W. D. 556
Weaver, C. S. 445
Webb, Roy G. 525
523
Schueneman, G. H. 632
Weber, O. A.
593
Scott, O. B. 439
Sebastian, Emil
602
Wesche, L. F.
433
Seibel, Adolph 332
Wetmore, Helon
45S
Sherman, Frank 59S
Whalen, Lawrence 427
386
Simington, Adam 518
Williams, H. M. 659
Wilson, J. B. 494
Wood, F. N.
436
Skalitzky, J. J.
677
Smith, E. D.
647
Smith, H. N. 248
Smith, J. A.
257
Zimmerman, J. H. 620
Zishka, C. H.
418
Soehren, G. F. 299
Zishka, F. L.
311
245
Wright, G. W.
576
Snyder, J. H. 631
662
Rusk, A. B.
Ryno, G. W., Sr. 382
Scharnberg, Lewis 454
Webb, W. H.
Welch, Channing 665
Shriver, J. S.
634
Wilcox, N. T.
Simington, W. H. 579
Sitz, Ed 464
Woodcock, W. P.
Rose, WV. E.
329
Treeby, H. J. 368
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