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James Morrison, section 13, Floyd Township, was born in East Loathers, Scotland, Feb. 9, 1828. He is a son of James Mor- rison, also a native of Scotland. When fifteen years of age he went to sea; sailed a year and a half and landed in New York City in 1845. He lived in Tioga County, Penn., two years, and a few months in New Jersey. He then lived in Livingston County, N. Y., several years, and in 1855 came to this county and worked at
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the carpenter's trade; is also a millwright. He was married Nov. 17, 1858, to Jane Shaw, a native of Antrim County, Ireland, a daughter of Benjamin Shaw. They have four children-William W., James B., Helen M. and Agnes J. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity.
William Morse, born in Waterbury, Washington County, Vt., Jan. 15, 1834, is a son of Leonard L. Morse, a native of Massachu- setts, who moved with his family to Will County, Ill., in the spring of 1834; to Whitesides County, Ill., about 1836; to Mc- Henry County, Ill., in 1842; and to California in 1847. In 1849 he went back to Vermont, and in 1850 to McHenry County, Ill., and to Chickasaw County, Ia., 1853. In the same year William Morse came to this county, and bought the land he now occupies. He went to Rice County, Minn., in 1855, and in 1858 came here, and settled on section 8, Floyd Township. He was married, Jan. 23, 1855, to Lucinda O. Horton. Of their seven children six are living-Adella, Charles E., Ida M., Anna E., Frank L. and Will- iam H. He has been Township Trustee, Constable and School Treasurer.
Harry M. Nye, deceased, was born in Vermont, Jan. 12, 1819. When about twenty years of age he went to Lake County, Ill., where, in 1843, he married Rachel J. Hubbard. Of their four children two are living-Mrs. Mary E. Rice and Charles E. Nye. He came to this county in February, 1855, and settled on section 22, Floyd Township, where the family still live. He was a member of the Baptist church, becoming a Christian in early life. He was hospitable and generous, always aiding in building churches and schools. He helped organize the first Sunday-school in Floyd. He died Sept. 24, 1881. He was a kind, affectionate husband and father, honest, upright and industrious, always one of the first in every good word and work.
Hershel J. Perrin, son of Ephraim Perrin, was born in Wash- ington County, N. Y., May 24, 1836. His parents dying, he was thrown on his own /resources at the age of eleven. He lived with Rev. Thos. Lang, near West Pawlet, Vt., one year; with Mr. Nelson, of Hebron, four years; and then worked by the month till nearly twenty-one. In the spring of 1857 he came West to Minnesota, and in July, 1857, he came to this county. He enlisted in the late war, in Company G, Twenty-seventh Iowa Infantry. He was at Pleasant Hill, etc .; afterward on detached service in the pioneer corps. He was married Jan. 28, 1872. Mr. and Mrs. Perrin have
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five children -- Harriet J., Alicia M., Ephraim H., Nora and Ester E. He resides on section 28, Floyd Township.
Willard Perrin, born in Windsor County, Vt., Dec. 13, 1854, is a son of William Perrin, of the same county. He came to Floyd County in 1874, and worked on a farm one year. He clerked for Griffith two years and in a drug store one year; then, in 1878, he went into business for himself, selling drugs, groceries, hardware and school books; capital stock, $1,200 to $1,500. He does an annual business of $5,000. He was married in January, 1876, to Belle Ramsey. They have two children-Percy and Edna.
Solomon A. Quinby, born in Brookfield, Vt., March 21, 1821, is a son of Jonathan Quinby. He came to Floyd County in 1858. He is a contractor and bridge-builder. He lives on his farm of 180 acres, on section. 21, Floyd Township. He was married in Chelsea, Vt., Sept. 17, 1845, to Harriet S. Woodworth, a native of that place, born Dec. 10, 1822. Of their eight children six are living-Laura, Albert, Cassius, Carrie, Sarah and Edith. One daughter, Ellen, died in Vermont at the age of ten years .
Robert J. Rankin, born in Burlington, Vt., Nov. 3, 1841, is a son of Hugh Rankin, a native of Ireland, who came to America about 1834. They moved to Messina, N. Y., in 1844. He was reared and educated there, and in 1858 came West and settled in Dane County, Wis., and in 1861 came in this county and settled in Floyd Village, where he lived till the spring of 1882, when he moved to the farm on section 19, and is dealing in stock. He was married Nov. 2, 1867, to Almira, daughter of James Griffith, deceased. She is a native of Ohio. They have one child -- George. His father resides with him. He has been Con- stable for the past eighteen years. Mrs. Rankin was a neighbor of James A. Garfield. 1
Frank Raymond, farmer and stock-raiser, section 12, Floyd Township, was born in St. Lawrence County, N. Y., April 27, 1844. He is a son of James Raymond, with whom he came West in 1850, going first to Wisconsin, and in 1852 to Illinois, and in 1855 coming to Floyd County. He owns forty acres of land. He was married Jan. 29, 1872, to Mary Johnson. They have two children-Bert and Lou. He has been School Director for several years.
James Raymond, born in Cornwall, Canada, June 5, 1830, is a son of James Raymond, who moved with his family to New York State in 1834, and to Fond du Lac County, Wis., in 1850 ; from
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there to MeHenry County, Ill., in the spring of 1852, and in June, 1855, came to this county and settled in Floyd Township, where he died July 9, 1879. James, Jr., was married Nov. 12, 1871, to Mrs. Maria L. Dennison. She had one son-George Dennison. They are members of the Methodist Episcopal church.
Luther Raymond, farmer and stock-raiser, section 8, Floyd Township, was born in St. Lawrence County, N. Y., July 20, 1848. He is also a son of James Raymond, who came West in 1850, and came to this county in 1855. He was reared on a farm and received his education in the common schools. He was married April 9, 1879, to Alecta J. Lone, daughter of Michael Lone. They had one child-Robert W. He owns 100 acres of well-improved land.
Norman A. Rice, farmer and stock-raiser, section 31, Floyd Township, was born in Belchertown, Hampshire County, Mass., Dec. 15, 1817, and is a son of David Rice, a native of Guil- ford, Vt. He came West and settled in Walworth County, Wis., in 1842. In September, 1852, he came to this county and settled in the wilderness. He now has 195 acres of well-improved land. He married, in 1845, Eliza Holcomb, who died in 1865. In 1866 he married Mary Shannon. He has been Township Trustee several years; is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church.
D. J. Richards, carpenter; postoffice, Floyd; son of David and Elizabeth (Shafer) Richards, natives of New York State and Penn- sylvania respectively; they lived in Pennsylvania, Ohio and In- diana. David died in Ohio and Elizabeth in Indiana. They had ten children and D. J. is the seventh child; he was born in Lancaster, Penn., Feb. 14, 1832, and came to Ohio with his parents in 1841, where he was educated and learned his trade, which he lias followed since. In 1869 he came to Floyd County and went to manufactur- ing brick; this he sold and bought a farm of seventy-eight acres on section 10, Floyd Township, where he now lives. In 1856 he married Elmira Riley, native of Ohio; they have been blessed with ten children, nine living-Corbin B., born Jan. 27, 1858; Eliza- beth, born 1860; Jessa, William Scott, Mary Alice, Charles Henry, Albert G., Frederick, Perly Gynette, Bertha. Mr. Richards votes the Republican ticket.
Andrew P. Seaton, born in Jefferson County, N. Y., Nov. 23, 1823, is a son of Leonard Seaton, a native of Canada. He resided on a farm till he was sixteen, his education being obtained in the common schools. His father was a tanner and currier and he learned the trade when a boy, and worked at it fourteen years, and
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worked at farming fourteen years. In 1870 he came to this county and settled in Floyd Township. He owns a good farm on section 23. In 1874 he moved into Floyd and sold goods a while. He was Justice of the Peace in 1874, and again in 1876. In 1878 he refused the office, but was elected again in 1880. He was mar- ried in Watertown, N. Y., in 1846, to Laura A. Ferguson. Of their five children, four are living-Oren A., James H., George F. and Clara J.
Philip Sharkey, born in Ireland, Aug. 1, 1826, is a son of John Sharkey, a native of Ireland, who came to America and settled in Vermont in 1831, where Philip was reared and educated. He went to Hampshire County, Mass., in 1846, and came to this county in 1854, settling on section 12, this township. He was married Oct. 23, 1853, to Mary Maley. They are the parents of seven children, five of whom are living-Wm. L., Thos. J., Chas. A., Mary A. and Martha J. One son, John P., died at the age of eighteen, and another, George H., at the age of three. He has been School Director fifteen years; was President of the Board of Education six years, Township Trustee, and Assessor two terms. The family are members of the Catholic church.
Abner O. B. Smith, born in Williston, Vt., Feb. 21, 1827, is a son of Hiram Smith, also a native of Vermont. He was educated in Burlington, Vt., and in 1850 came West to Kenosha County, Wis. He freighted there most of the time till 1860, when he came to this county. He sold goods in Floyd and Garner, Ia., for about eight years. He owns 168 acres in this county, 160 in Hancock County, and 160 in Nebraska. He resides on section 8, Floyd Township. His son, Horace W., is a physician in Garner, a grad- uate of Rush Medical College. He was married in 1849 to Char- lotte Pierce. They have four children-Alvin J., Horace W., Florence H., and Ida. Mrs. Smith died in 1860.
Henry D. Sprague, son of Henry Sprague, of Cattaraugus County, N. Y., was born in Steuben County, N. Y., Dec. 20, 1836. He went with his parents to Jasper County, Ind., in 1845, and to Buchanan County, Iowa, in 1854. In the fall of 1854 he came to Charles City where he has since resided, with the exception of one season spent in the Rocky Mountains in the mines. He took a trip into Oregon in 1874. Jan. 19, 1862, in Rockford, this county, he was married to Charlotte Welch. Of their six children five are living-Clara J., William E., James E., Denny O., and Henry W. Nellie M. is deceased. He resided
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in Ulster Township till March 1, 1882, when he took charge of the infirmary in Floyd. Has held the office of County Supervisor for Ul-ter, three years.
William Sprague, farmer; postoffice Floyd ; son of Samuel and Rachel (Skelton) Sprague, natives of New York; they came to Illi- nois in 1844 and Samuel died there. William was born April 9, 1830, in New York, and educated there and in Illinois; he has always followed farming. In 1855 he came to Iowa and bought his present farm of 160 acres on section 29, Floyd Township, which he has under a fine state of cultivation. In 1853 he married Eliza M., daughter of William H. and Lavinia (Edmunds) Otis They have three children-Julia, born July 16, 1854, wife of Noah S. Naden, of Mitchell County; Mary S., born April 13, 1864; Will- iam Otis, born May 5, 1873, Mr. Sprague and wife are members of M. E. church of Floyd. Mr. Sprague has held several of the township offices, and has faithfully discharged the duties of each. He votes the Republican ticket.
Francis M. Wheat, farmer and stock-raiser, section 23, Floyd Township, was born in Delaware County, N. Y., Feb. 14, 1830, a son of William Wheat, a native of Connecticut. He was reared on a farm and received his education in the common schools and at Delaware Literary Institute of Franklin, N. Y. He came to Floyd County, going first to Charles City in 1857; in June, 1859, moved on to his present farm of 150. acres. He was married Jan. 10, 1854, to Lydia E. Richmond, daughter of John Richmond of Schafhausen, Switzerland, who served under Napoleon Bonaparte for three years and was carried prisoner to the Isle of Malta and kept two years, when, as the only means of escape, he enlisted in the British army and was brought to Canada, and from there escaped to America. He settled in Schoharie County, N. Y., and reared a family of seven daughters and one son. He died in 1874.
Jacob Whitbeck, born in Montgomery County, N. Y., Jan. 8, 1820, is a son of Robert Whitbeck, a native of Kinderhook, N. Y. He was educated in the common schools of his native county. In 1853 he moved to Rockford, Ill., and in 1856 came to this county. IIis house was the first one finished in the village of Floyd. He is a mason by trade but has followed farming and stock-raising since coming here. He owns 165 acres of land on section 19. He was married in August, 1840, to Mary Fero. Of their ten children only six are living-Henry, Nettie, Charles, Ella, William and
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Lizzie. One son, Albert, died at the age of twenty-two ; one, Jacob, was drowned while swimming in a pond, July 4, 1868, aged fourteen. Mr. Whitbeck is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church ; he helped to haul the lumber, gave largely in money and helped build the Methodist Episcopal church. He has done much for the public interests of Floyd. He and P. Sharkey were the committee who condemned the court-house at Charles City.
Hervey Wilbur was born May 4, 1811, in Chatham, Columbia County, N. Y. His father and grandfather were natives of Rhode Island, but immigrated in an early day to Columbia County, N. Y., where they experienced all the hardships of pioneer farmers. In 1814 his father removed to Otsego County, N. Y., where he lived till 1857. He was married Jan. 1, 1840, to Angeline Moore, daughter of Philip Moore, who was a native of New Jersey. He was both farmer and carpenter. While in New York Mr. Wilbur was honored with the offices of School Inspector, School Commis- sioner, Town Inspector of Schools, Justice of the Peace, etc. He was a Democrat and was defeated for County Superintendent and member of the Legislature, at the split of that party into "Hunkers" and " Barn-burners. " In 1857 he came to Iowa with his wife and six children. They have one son, born in the "Hawkeye" State. The most of his family are living at Charles City, Ia. He entered the State as a Democrat and continued with that party till the war of the Rebellion, when he was a Union man from the first, and the close of the Rebellion found him, as he is now, a Republican. He is a school teacher by occupation, but was engaged in farming a portion of the time while in New York. He has held the offices of Justice of the Peace, County Superintendent of Schools and County Treasurer since coming to Floyd County.
NILES TOWNSHIP.
ORGANIC.
This is township No. 96 north, range 15 west. It was formed March 6, 1858, by S. B. Starr, acting Judge, and was organized April 14 following. It contains thirty-five full sections. Jan. 12, 1859, the south three-fourths of section 31, township 96, 15, was detached from this township and attached to St. Charles Township; and the north half sections 1 to 5 inclusive, of township 95, 15, was detached from St. Charles Township and attached to Niles; D. Ripley, Judge. At the June session, 1862, the west half of section 18, township 96, 15, was detached from Floyd and attached to Niles, and the south three-fourths of section 31, township 96, 15, was detached from St. Charles and attached to Niles; also, the north half of sections 1 to 5 inclusive, of township 95, 15, were transferred from Niles to St. Charles.
GENERAL HISTORY.
This township was named after Niles, Mich. The first election was held in April, 1858, and J. B. Dawley, N. Dutcher and Ira Shaw were elected Trustees; Amos Refsnider, Clerk; Tilley Gil bert and Newman Dutcher, Justices of the Peace; Henry Green, Constable. The Little Cedar runs diagonally through the entire township, commencing on section 6 and leaving the township on section 36; this stream and its tributaries waters and drains the township; the Beaver is one of the tributaries which begins on sec- tion 2 and leaves the township on section 24. The general charac- ter of the soil is black sand, with here and there light clay and sand. The lay of the land is a gentle rolling prairie with patches of black jack, bur oak, and a few white ones in the southern and western portions and along the Cedar.
J. H. Pitcher entered the first land in the township in 1853. J. B. Dawley, Joseph Beckwith and E. K. Ash were the first settlers in the township; they located in 1854, coming from the States of Michigan, Indiana and New York respectively.
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The first couple married of the township was J. H. Pitcher and Frances L. Dutcher. There being no Justice of the Peace in the township they went to Charles City, and were married there Jan. 18, 1856.
Emily J. Beckwith was the first white child born in the town- ship. She was born May 13, 1855, and was a daughter of Joseph and Lucinda (Wood) Beckwith.
The first death was that of Mrs. N. Dutcher, who died Sep- tember, 1856.
The number of school-houses in the township is nine; the value of school property is $5,500. Number of persons of school age, 372-males 190, females 182; average daily attendance, 125. Average number of months schooling during year, seven. Total amount of teachers' fund, March 14, 1881, $2,258.61; amount paid teachers, $1,288.25; $259 tuition to Cedar Township; balance on hand March 13, 1882, $967.77. Average amount paid male teachers per month, $26.20; average amount paid female teachers per month, $19.96. Each district is provided with one copy of Webster's Unabridged Dictionary. The school-houses all are seated with a patent seat and desk. The average cost of tuition per scholar, per month, is-winter, $1.84; summer, $1.92, or $1.88 per year.
One mill per dollar is voted for township road tax.
BIOGRAPHICAL.
Timothy Billings, farmer and stock-raiser; postoffice, Niles; son of Timothy and Margaret (McTaggart) Billings, natives of Vermont and Scotland respectively. They came to Iowa in 1854, being about the first to locate in Niles Township, where Indiaus were more plentiful than white men. There was a family of chil- dren, of which Timothy was the fifth; he was born in Canada, Oct. 6, 1845. He had the privileges of a common-school education in Iowa of an early day, and worked on the farm with his father until he was eighteen years of age, when he enlisted in the Fourth Iowa Cavalry, Company H, Capt. S. S. Troy, and served till the end of the war. He was in the siege of Memphis ; Tupelo, Miss .; Selma, Ala .; Jackson, Miss .; Nashville, Tenn., and Columbus, Ga .; also in some twenty-five other minor battles in Tennessee, Mississippi, Georgia, Alabama and Arkansas, serving under Generals Sher- man, Wilson, Grierson and Grant, and was discharged in August, 51
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1865, at Davenport. After leaving the army he spent three years in the gold mines of Montana, where he made a good " stake." On returning to the States in 1869, he married Catherine E., daughter of Henry and Mary (Waters) Cobough, natives of Penn- sylvania, where Henry died. Mrs. Billings was born in Pennsyl- vania, Oct. 10, 1846. By this union there are two children-Daisy May, born Oct. 29, 1870; Isora Elizabeth, born June 27, 1874. Mr. Billings has held several of the offices of the township, and has faithfully discharged every trust. He votes the Republican ticket. Mr. Billings owns 720 acres of fine land on sections 8, 9, 4 and 20, the most of which is finely improved. He is an influential and respected citizen of the county.
Theodore Coon, fariner; postoffice, Niles; was born in Cattaraugus County, N. Y., July 27, 1836, where he was educated and lived until 1854; he then moved to Illinois and lived there two years. In 1856 he came to Iowa, and located in Niles Township. He now owns 200 acres of fine land on sections 9 and 8. He is the son of Howland and Eunice (La Barron) Coon, natives of New York State, where they now live. In 1856 he married Paulina, daughter of William and Susan (Miller) Gillott, natives of England and Vermont respectively. They moved to Niles Township in 1854, where Mr. Gillott died in 1880. Susan was born in Ver- mont, June 30, 1833. This union has been blessed with two children-John Eher, born July 28, 1862; Ulysses Grant, Oct. 28, 1867. Mr. Coon votes the Republican ticket.
Joseph B. Dawley, farmer, section 18, Niles Township, is a native of New York, and was born in Frankfort, Herkimer County, June 10, 1809. His parents were Ebenezer and Mary (Babcock) Dawley; he was a farmer and a native of Rhode Island; she of New Jersey. They were members of the Baptist church, and have a family of four sons and seven daughters. Joseph B. was the third son; he worked on a farm with his father, and attended school until eighteen, when he moved with his parents to Oneida County, N. Y., and remained there on a farm five years, then returned to Herkimer County, and married Mary Coolidge, on Oct. 26, 1831. She was born in Frankfort, N. Y., a daughter of Warren and Rachael (Swift) Coolidge. He farmed in Her- kimer County two years, then went to Oneida County and pur- chased a farm, and remained until 1835, when he sold out and went to Hillsdale County, Mich. He cleared a hundred acres of heavy timber land for a farm, and remained there farming and
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fighting ague until October, 1853, when he came to Charles City, Floyd County, Ia., and went to where Floyd now is, and bought the farm he now lives on. and built the first house in Floyd, Floyd County. Mr. and Mrs. Dawley have five children, viz .: Mary, wife of C. P. Hubbard, a farmer of Todd County, Minn .; Lorenzo J., a carpenter and joiner, of Minneapolis, Minn .; Lovina, wife of P. F. Allison, a farmer in Floyd Township, Floyd County; Joanna S., wife of L. L. Hill, a farmer in St. Charles Township, and Horace J., farming with his father. ) Mr. Dawley owns a fine farm of 213 acres, under good cultivation and well stocked. He is one of the enterprising farmers, representative men and old settlers of Floyd County, having been identified here since 1853, before this county was organized. He has seen this county change from its wild, uncultivated state to its present prosperous condition. He has held various offices of trust; he has been County Super- visor and Assessor; was elected Justice of the Peace in 1858, and held that office some five years. In politics he was first a Jackson Democrat, and cast his first vote for old Hickory, and at the or- ganization of the Republican party became one of its strong sup- porters.
Newman Dutcher, carpenter and joiner, and farmer, postoffice Charles City; is a son of Wherton and Eleanor ( Wheeler) Dutcher, natives of New York, where they died. Newman was born May 3, 1813, and was educated in New York, where he learned his trade and worked until he came to Ohio in 1846; here he farmed and worked at his trade nine years; then sold out and located in Green County, Wis., remaining there some three years; then he came to Iowa in 1855, and located on his present farm of 100 acres on sections 33 and 32, Niles Township. In 1833 he married Jane Morrison; there were three children by this union, one living-Frances, wife of James Pitcher, of Niles Township. Frederick, born Nov. 15, 1834; in 1862 he enlisted in the Twenty-seventh Iowa Infantry, Captain Slocum; he was taken sick and was in the hospital eight months, and died in December, 1863. Wherton, born Jan. 11, 1840, and enlisted May, 1861, in the Third Iowa Infantry; he served two years, two months, participating in the battles of Missouri and seige of Vicksburg and many other hard-fought battles; he was killed at the second taking of Jackson, Mississippi, July 12, 1863. Mrs. Dutcher died Dec. 19, 1841. Mr. Dutcher married in 1842, Mary E. Stoter; she was born in Connecticut. There were six children by this union, four living-Jane Ann, born 1849, wife of
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Levi Knapp, of Ringgold County, Ia .; Abby, born 1852, wife of John Ellis, of Niles Township; Newman, born in November, 1855; Albert, born 1845; he enlisted in the Twelfth Iowa and was dis- charged for disability. On regaining his health, he re-enlisted in the Fourteenth Wisconsin Battery, and was permanently disabled and is now in the Soldier's Home at Dayton, O. Mary E. Dutcher died Sept. 8, 1856. In 1857 Mr. Dutcher married Mary L., daughter of John and Charlotte (Tyler) Snyder, natives of Pennsylvania and New York respectively. She was born in New York, Aug. 28, 1836. This union has been blessed with nine children, eight living-Ida C., born Oct. 3, 1858; John W., born Dec. 27, 1859; Eugene S., June 11, 1862; Nettie., Feb. 21, 1864; Mabel T., Ang. 29, 1866; Luella (deceased), born in 1869; Charles K., born May 21, 1870; Blanch Estelle, born May 21, 1875, and Arthur B., born Aug. 4, 1877. Mr. Dutcher and wife are members of the Methodist Episco-
pal church. Mr. Dutcher votes the Greenback ticket. He has held several township offices, and has faithfully discharged his dnty.
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