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has added from time to time, making his entire farm two hundred and ninety-two acres. He lived on his first claim ten years, then moved to his present farm on section 12, living in a small frame build- ing for one year, during which time he erected the brick house in which he has lived, which was probably the second brick house built in the county. He and a hired man burned the brick.
Mr. Hunt was born in Saratoga County, N. Y., February 20, 1822, and is the son of Walter and Susan (Deming) Hunt. The date of his death was September 30, 1891.
Capt. Ziba Hunt, grandfather of our subject, was born in Connecticut January 4, 1746, and died September 10, 1820, at North Hampton, N. Y.
His wife was Joanna Blount, whom he married in early life, rearing a family of thirteen children.
Walter Hunt, the father of our subject, was born September 24, 1782, at Stephen- town, N. Y., and married Susanna Dem- ing at Edinburg, N. Y., December 5, 1802, and died at Edinburg March 23, 1863, his wife dying at the same place in the month of October, 1872, They reared a family of ten children, as follows: Amos, Joanna, Isaac, Betsy, Sallie, George Washington, William W., Jason Ziba, Amanda M., Alonzo R.
Our subject and his wife were the parents of a family of six children; Camilla S., born July 6, 1849; Livy M., April 25, 1852; Hattie M., June 12, 1855; Orville B., September 18, 1857, died Sep- tember 16, 1862; Mary E., born February 15, 1861; Charles W., January 2, 1864.
Mr. Hunt taught school in what is now Cass Township in 1852 a part of a term, the remainder of which was finished by Stephen King, the same being the pioneer
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school of the township. In 1851 Mr. Hunt taught two months in Council Bluffs (Kanesville).
To learn something of the earlier life of our subject, we will ask the reader to trace his steps from the State of New York, by railroad to Buffalo, then to Cin- cinnati down the Ohio River, up the Mississippi River to St. Louis, thence up the Missouri to St. Joe, then by wagon to Harrison County, remembering that he had attended school at Fairfield, Herki- mer County, N. Y., from 1844 to 1846, where he studied civil engineering, of which he made much use after coming West.
In speaking of early days, he states that three times he had to walk to Council Bluffs, once for an axe, having broken the one he had, and was unable to proceed with his work without this trip. When one considers that Mr. Hunt had but seventy-five cents upon arriving in Iowa, and that at his death he was a prosperous farmer, it will be understood that his had been a life of toil and good management.
Politically, Mr. Hunt voted with the Republican party.
In their religious convictions, Mr. and Mrs. Hunt were members of the Meth- odist Episcopal Church.
W ILLIAM T. RODEN, of St. John's Township, has been a resident of the county since 1868, and very naturally finds space for a biographical notice in this connection. The history of a county, State or nation is but the per- sonal history of individuals, working single-handed, or co-operating together.
He was born, May 17, 1840, in Missis- sippi, and was the oldest of a family of four children, born to Felix G. and Eliza- beth (Russian) Roden, the former a na- tive of Tennessee and the latter of Missis- sippi. Their children's names were Will- iam T., James G., (deceased) ; John, (de- ceased) and Nancy, now living in Oregon. Our subject's father's family moved from Mississippi, halting a while in Tennessee, Missouri and Arkansas and in 1854, emi- grated to Siskiyou County, Cal., where the father followed farming, mining and stock-raising. In 1864, our subject went to Nevada, remained two years, then went to Montana, stayed three years and in 1868, located in this county. He now owns six hundred acres of land in this county, four hundred of which is under cultivation and all provided with a good fence. He has a spacious bain, costing $1,800, and for the accommodation of his growing stock of all kinds, he has provided his place with a complete system of water- works, at an outlay of over $300.
When Mr. Roden came to the county, he worked on the railroad for two years, at $50 per month. We next find him on his farm, with nothing about him, except a team, harness and wagon and two cows. But by perseverance, hard work, and the exercise of good judgment, he has sur- rounded himself with a charming home, and is in the possession of one of Harrison County's most valuable farms, all of which has been made by his own efforts.
Mr. Roden was united in marriage, April 22, 1869, to Miss Sarah Kirkland, the daughter of Samuel and Martha (Hemp- hill) Kirkland, both natives of the Buck- eye State. Our subject and his wife's home has been blessed by nine children- Louis J., born April 8, 1870; Charles E., August 22, 1872; Royal G., October 29,
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1874; Maud I., March 5, 1877; Felix, February 22, 1879; John Walter, March 28, 1881; Mabel B., August 12, 1883; Will- iam A., April 13, 1886 and Bessie H. March 14, 1889.
Politically, our subject believes in the principles and general administration of the Democratic party.
In addition to his farm business, he is also in partnership with Frank Zahner in the stock business, buying and shipping live stock. During the past year, they shipped one hundred and six car loads, or 7,274 hogs and one hundred car loads of cattle.
Let his children and children's children look over the history of Harrison County and see who were the successful business men in agriculture and in trade and they will find in nine cases out of ten it is such men as our subject who started with no means, save a pair of willing hands and an eye to business, and invested properly after they had earned money. They are usually men endowed with a public spirit and business enterprise.
Louis J., the oldest child, taught his first term of school in the winter of 1891- 92, in the Mill Creek District. He at- tended the Missouri Valley High School three years and one term at the "Wood- bine Normal."
IMOTHY C. CASE, located on sec- tion 26, of Calhoun Township, came to Harrison County in the fall of 1855, and stopped in St. John's Township. He came to Harrison County a poor man, and was compelled to rent land for twelve years. He then bought the farm he now
occupies, which consisted, at the time, of eighty acres of wild land, upon which he built a house, barn, and cribbing; also dug wells and set out an orchard of one hundred and twenty trees. He now owns one hundred and forty acres of land, sixty acres of which are under the plow. He lived in this county, during the never-to- be-forgotten hard winter of 1856-57, when he lost both cattle and hogs, through the severity of the weather. The grasshoppers were also a "burden unto him," as they destroyed his entire crop for two years.
Concerning our subject's career outside of Harrison County, let it be said, that he was born in Hendricks County, Ind., in November, 1831. He is the son of John and Sarah Case, natives of Virginia and South Carolina respectively, he being the sixth of a family of twelve children, seven of whom are living, four residing in Har- rison County. The names of his father's family are as follows-Acenith, deceased ; Squire L., deceased; John G., Martha, deceased; Hannah, Sarah, Timothy C., Jacob, Tabitha deceased; Nancy, de- ceased; Sylva and William T.
Our subject lived in the Hoosier State until sixteen years of his life had passed, when he went to the Lone Star State- Texas. In 1849, he enlisted in the regular army, under command of N. P. Banks. He enlisted in Louisville, Ky., was as- signed to Company G, First Infantry, and served in the regular army five years. He was stationed on the frontier in Texas, to protect the settlers from the depredations of the Indians, with whom they had several skirmishes. He received his dis- charge at Eagle Pass, Tex., after which he went to work for the Government, as teamster of a freight wagon, going up to the New Mexico line, the trip taking three months' time. We next find him in Indi-
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ana, where he remained one year, after which he came to Harrison County, Iowa.
He was married in October, 1856, to Eliza A. Deal, daughter of John and Sarah Deal, who were natives of Kentucky, and had a family of eleven children, of whom our subject's wife was the eighth. The family were-William, deceased ; Polly A., James, Peter, deceased; Barbara, Rachel, Sarah, Eliza A., Joseph A,, John B. and Eli, deceased.
Our subject's wife's parents moved to Harrison County, in 1852.
Mr. and Mrs. Case are the parents of seven children, born and named in the following order-John F., August 16, 1857 ; William H., March 24, 1860; James T., April 25, 1862; Sarah, March 27, 1864; Timothy J., April 22, 1868; Joseph E., March 17, 1870 and Andrew R., March 23, 1877.
Mr. and Mrs. Case are members of the Baptist Church, and in his political rela- tions, he favors the Democratic party.
L UKE JEFFERSON was a member of the vanguard of civilization, who kindled his camp fire and set his stakes to remain in Harrison County, May 4, 1853, settling at Twelve-Mile Grove, Douglas Township; and by reason of his long residence his earlier and later promi- nence in the county is here given space for a notice concerning himself and family.
He was born June 24, 1827,in Ely, Cam- bridgeshire, England, and when five years of age, with his parents, emigrated to America, landing in New York harbor
in March, 1832, and went to Troy, remained two years and in 1834 removed to Portage County, Ohio, where they lived three years and then removed to Marion County, of-that State, where the father died soon after arriving there.
Our subject remained with his mother until September 2, 1852, when they started for Iowa but halted in Macon County, Ill., and wintered there, coming on to Iowa in the spring. They made the jour- ney from Ohio, crossing the great prairie States, Indiana, Illinois and Iowa with teams. While wintering in Illinois here- newed the acquaintance of Miss Mary A. Farnsworth with whom he had been ac- quainted in the Buckeye State, and believing that he would surely be in need of a faithful companion in the far west, to which point he was enroute, he made a certain practical propositions to her by which she became his wife, the marriage ceremony being performed September 16, 1852, and as this good helpmate will nec- essarily be closely connected with this sketch and all that pertains to it we will pause here to introduce the reader to their family of seven children-John W., born July 17, 1853; Olive L., March 29, 1855; Phobe, February 5, 1857; Thomas F. Au- gust 13, 1859; Mary H. C., March 31, 1861; Samuel L., March 23, 1863; Emma M., March 31, 1865; Emma died in in- fancy.
Mrs. Jefferson was a native of Ohio, born in Marion County, September 2, 1831, and twenty years later accompanied her parents to Macon County, Ill., where, as above stated, she married Mr. Jeffer- son and was true and faithful to her sacred vows until she died December 31, 1882.
Upon coming to this county our subject settled on a place on section 31, Douglas Township, the land was, however, not yet
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in the market. but he claimed eighty acres upon which he lived until 1855, when he removed to the southeast quarter of section 26, of Boyer Township, which he had previously entered. On section 31, he had broken twenty acres and built a log cabin or rather moved it to that spot, as it was one that had been rudely con- structed by the Mormons. On section 26, he built a frame building, designed for a stable eventually, but lived in it one summer while he was building his present residence which is a two-story frame house 30x34 feet, with a kitchen and wood-house added. The other buildings of the place consist of barns, graneries, corncribs, etc. His farm consists of three hundred and sixty acres in one body where he lives, and three hundred and fifty-three acres in Douglas Township. His farm with its substantial improvements and good loca- tion makes it among the desirable places in the county.
When Mr. Jefferson came to the county he was a poor man and had but one team and a cow which he bought in the East- ern part of Iowa and if the reader should visit his broad acres of to-day with all their charming surroundings he would know for a truth that his has been a life full of hard labor and good management. Politically Mr. Jefferson casts his vote with the Republican party.
ACOB J. KIEFER, a resident of section 23, Boyer Township, came to Harrison County in the spring of 1860, and lived with Mr. Richard Jef- ferson for about six months and then bought forty acres on section 26, of Boyer
Township, upon which he lived a year when he bought the place he now lives upon. On the first tract of land he bought here he built a log cabin, sixteen feet square, and on the place he now lives his log cabin was 11x14 feet with summer kitchen added. This served until 1882, with a few additions. He has improved both of the above named tracts of land, but encountered many hardships to bring this about. He came to the county with- out means, and the first year his wife was ill and the following year he had that mis- erable disease known as ague which termi- nated in typhoid fever, laying him up for six months. It should be remembered that there were but few settlers in his neighborhood at this time and they were frightened in regard to the disease ; hence it was that his callers were not over num- erous.
Our subject was born in Germany, Aug- ust 27, 1833, where he remained until the autumn of 1853, when he sailed for Amer- ica, the land of freedom and prosperity. Upon landing he came direct to Seneca County, Ohio, where he hired out at farm labor and continued this until he came to Harrison County.
Miss Esther Jacobs, of Seneca County, Ohio, became his wife April 18, 1858, by which union four children were born- Samuel R., born June 27, 1860; Mary E. February 19, 1863; Charles G .; July 13, 1867; Rose D., July 17, 1871. Samuel R. was drowned July 12, 1876.
Mrs. Kiefer was born in Columbus, Ohio, January 16, 1840, and her parents moved to Crawford County, of that State and her father died when she was two years of age. Her mother married again in the last-named county where she spent the remainder of her days.
Mary E., the daughter of our subject,
L. Kellogg
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married John H. Thomas, March 27, 1888, at her father's residence in Boyer Township. Her husband was born in Marion County, Ohio, June 16, 1859, coming to Harrison County in September, 1882.
L ORENZO KELLOGG, banker of Dunlap, Iowa, as well as a heavy real-estate owner, and extensive business man in general, was born, Janu- ary 2, 1829, at West Springfield, Hamden County, Mass., where he remained until he was twelve years of age, when his par- ents removed to Ellington, Conn., and from there to Rockville, where he spent a number of years, up to 1857, when he came to Harrison County, Iowa, arriving April 25, since which time this has been his home.
When he came to the township the only tract of land under cultivation was one hundred and sixty acres on the northwest corner of section 33, and a farm on section 22. He located on section 28, where he took a claim of eighty acres, on the east half of the southwest quarter, and pur- chased one hundred and sixty acres on the same section, making two hundred, and forty acres in all. Here he made it his home for twenty-six years, at which time he moved to Dunlap. From time to time he has added to his landed estate, until he now possesses nine hundred and sixty acres, located on sections 20, 21, 28 and 29, all of which he improved himself. During his quarter of a century of farm life in Harrison County, besides devoting his time, to the carrying on of his farm and stock-raising, he also operated quite exten- sively in real-estate. He has been a very
successful business man, and being among the pioneers of the county he has assisted largely in the building up and develop- ment of the same. In 1871, in company with D. F. Clark, of Magnolia, and G. W. Thompson, he organized the Dunlap bank, with which concern he is still asso- ciated, and has been President of it since 1879, at which time the bank was re- organized.
Politically, Mr. Kellogg is at present an Independent. He has officiated as County Supervisor and in other minor offices, but has always preferred to keep out of poli- tics, as much as possible.
Of his parentage, it may be said, that he is the son of Israel and Jerusha (Pease) Kellogg, natives of Connecticut, who were of a combination of Scotch, English and Irish extraction, but were among the early pioneers of the East. On the mo- ther's side they date back to the coming of the Mayflower. The parents of our subject died in Connecticut and were the parents of eight children-six sons and two daughters. The latter are deceased while the former are all living. Lorenzo and his brother, T. P., are the only mem- bers of the family who came to this part of the country. His brother is a resident of Douglas Township.
Mr. Kellogg was married April 4, 1854, to Mary B. Gager, a native of Connecti- cut and the daughter of John W. and Ann (Brigham) Gager, of English, French and Spanish extraction. The grandfather, Don Brigham, was a drummer in the Revolutionary War. Mrs. Kellogg was born in 1834. By her marriage with Mr. Kellogg, four children have been born- Helen E., wife of B. J. Moore, of Harri- son Township; Clara W., wife of Q. W. Taylor, a resident of Dunlap; Mattie P. and Lillian B., deceased.
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Mr. and Mrs. Kellogg are acceptable members of the Congregational Church, and are active members of the religious and social world in which they move.
Men like the trees of a forest have var- ious capacities and proportions, and it will not be in the least underrating the achievements of other men to state that our subject, like some sturdy forest king, has made a steady substantial growth in all that goes toward making up the life of a successful and useful member of society.
ASPER N. CADWELL, a resident of Jefferson Township, where he owns one hundred and forty acres of excellent farm land on section 13, town- ship 79, range 43, came to Harrison County in March, 1867, and first located on Silver Prairie, in Magnolia Township, where he rented of Phineas Cadwell for two years, and in June, 1868, bought a part of his present farm. At first he built a log house, which is still standing, the logs being moved from Magnolia, where they had formed a part of one of the early hotels of that place, and known as the "Brainard House." There was no im- provement on this land; there are now forty acres under the plow, while the bal- ance is used as tame pasture and meadow land.
In July, 1889, he completed his present farm house, the upright of which is 16x28 feet, two stories in height, with an addi- tion one story and a half high, 16x24 feet. Upon coming to the country Mr. Cadwell had but small means, only possessing a team and furniture enough to barely do .. But by hard work and good management
and the fact that he lived in one of the best agricultural sections in this portion of the State, he has gradually advanced until he is now surrounded with all those comforts that provide one with a pleasant home.
Mr. Cadwell was born at Hamilton, Canada, November 22, 1837, and is the son of Rev. Christopher C. and Harriet (Northway) Cadwell, both natives of Mad- ison County, N. Y. Christopher Cadwell and family came to Racine County, Wis., in 1838, when Casper was but six months old. The father was a Congregational minister, and preached at Southport, now Kenosha, and was the second Congrega- tional minister in what was the Wisconsin Territory. In 1870 he went to Barton County, Mo .. where he died January 16, 1871, aged fifty-eight years, one month and five days.
Our subject's mother was born January 1, 1815, and died July 17, 1844. Casper N. was their only child. After the death of his mother his father married Pemelia Wells, by whom three children were born, Hattie E., Sarah S. and Merle D.
Our subject left home in Wisconsin in 1861, becoming a member of the First Wisconsin Cavalry, serving twenty months, and received his discharge at St. Louis February, 1863. After leaving the service he spent two years in Wisconsin, but owing to ill health was unable to ac- complish much, and in September, 1865, came to Jasper County, Iowa, remaining there there until the time of his coming to Harrison County.
He was married in Jasper County, October 25, 1866, to Eliza J. Kirkendall, a native of Ohio, born March 5, 1845. She was the daughter of Daniel and Polly (Welch) Kirkendall. They are the parents of four children. Hattie E., born Sep-
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tember 20, 1866; Bertha M., July 25, 1868; Clara E., September 27, 1869; Homer C., March 30, 1874.
Hattie E. graduated at the Logan High School, standing second in her class. She also attended Coe College at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, for two years, receiving a good musical education. At present she is a music teacher at Hartington. Neb.
Bertha M. graduated from the Logan High School, ranking first in her class, and is now engaged in the High School at Lamars, Plymouth County, Iowa, where she is proving herself a proficient teacher.
Clara A. is also a No. 1 graduate of the Logan High Schools, and is at present teaching in the graded school of Lamars, Iowa.
Homer C. is still attending school.
Mr. and Mrs. Cadwell are Presbyterians, and were among the charter members of the First Presbyterian Church at Logan.
Politically, Mr. Cadwell is identified with the Republican party. He is a mem- ber of Fuller Post, Grand Army of the Republic.
ON. PHINEAS CADWELL is among the early pioneers of Harri- son County and has been promi- nently identified with its growth and development; he has lived to see what was little less than a howling wilder- ness transformed into a well-tilled garden spot of the Missouri Slope.
The Cadwells are of Scotch descent and are able to trace their ancestry back nine generations. It is found that Ed- ward Cadwell was the father of two sons, Edward Jr., and Matthew, who landed in
New England from Scotland, but form- erly from Holland, soon after the landing of the Pilgrims who sailed in the May- flower in 1620. Edward's wife died at the extreme age of one hundred and three years, being the mother of twelve sons- Abraham, William, Nehemiah, Matthew, Edward, Daniel, David, Joseph, Timothy, Aaron, Moses, Tellar.
Nehemiah's wife died at the advanced age of one hundred and five years and they were the parents of Ashbel Cadwell, who was born in 1735, and married Lydia Smith, daughter of Ebenezer Smith; she was born in 1727, and died February 10, 1798; he died in 1785. They were the parents of four children-Phineas, born February 28, 1757; Lydia, Ashbel and Deborah. Phineas Cadwell was married December 25, 1780, to Eleanor Heydon, daughter of David Heydon, and they had eight children-Polly A., Polly A., (sec- ond) Mahala, Ebenezer Smith, Eleanor, Emma, Ashbel and Belinda. The last named is still living aged nearly eighty-six years.
In 1814 Ebenezer Smith enlisted and was appointed to the command of a com- pany of detached militia under Col. Eras- tus Cleveland, who was ordered to report to Maj .- Gen. King at Sackett's Harbor. After the close of that strife he was bre- vetted Colonel for his meritorious con- duct.
When eighteen years of age Phineas entered the War of the Revolution, serv- ing most of the time until the closing of that struggle which culminated in our National Independence, holding the rank of Corporal.
March 2, 1808, Ebenezer Smith Cad- well married Sally Clark and by this un- ion there were nine children-Carlos C., Christopher C., Elizabeth, Mahala, Mah-
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ala, (second) Barzilla and Priscilla, (twins) Phineas, our subject, and Philinda. Phi- neas Cadwell Sr., died at the home of his son, Ebenezer S., in the town of Bloom- field, Walworth County, Wis., February 11, 1857, being ninety-nine years, eleven months and eleven days old, lacking sev- enteen days of being a centenarian.
Phineas Cadwell, our subject, was born in Madison County, N. Y., April 17, 1824, and spent his youthful days the same as most of the boys were wont to do in the old "Empire State." He attended school at Lenox, Madison County.
In the fall of 1842 he embarked on life's sea for himself going to the then wild re- gion of Racine County, Wis., where his father had given him a hundred and sixty acres of land. He kept "batch " for about three years, returning to New York, Oc- tober 7, 1845, and married Harriet N. Fiske, daughter of Silas and Susana (Wite) Fiske, who is the third child of a family of five children. She was born May 31, 1824. Seven children have blessed this marriage union-Charles F., born February 29, 1848, and died October 8, 1861; Mary E., born November 29, 1849, and died in infancy; William C., born June 28, 1853; Edgar F. August 4, 1855; Frederick H. M. December 8, 1860; Har- riet P., August 26, 1863, and Katie E., Oc- tober 22, 1865.
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