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ture. Since living in the country our subject has made three trips to the Black Hills, spending three years of his time mining and prospecting in that locality.
To inform the reader of our subject's earlier career, it may be stated in this connection that Mr. Teeter was born in Bedford County, Pa., April 12, 1821. He is the son of Isaac and Elizabeth (Kaylor) Teeter. The father was a native of the Keystone State, while the mother was born in Maryland. Our subject remained at home on his father's farm until the years of his majority; he then took a trip to Miami County, Ohio. He attended school while there, and went back to Pennsylvania and farmed his father's place, and then came to Jefferson County, Iowa. This was in 1846, when Iowa was yet a Territory. He remained in that county until 1852, farming the first two or three years, having three hundred and twenty acres of land. He then engaged in the mercantile business, and operated a sawmill. The company to which he be- longed sank beneath the waves of finan- cial disaster, and our subject had to foot the bills, so far as he was able, which greatly crippled him. So, in 1852, with four yoke of oxen, he crossed the plains to California, starting on the fourth day of May, and landed in California on the nineteenth day of September. Being a blacksmith by trade, he followed that for about one year, and spent the next three years mining. He then returned to Jef- ferson County, Iowa, making the trip to New York by water, then followed the lakes to Chicago, where he took the cars for Burlington. He remained in Jefferson County until 1855, and then came to this county.
Our subject was united in marriage in Bedford County, Pa., May 8, 1845, to Miss
Elizabeth Brown, the daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth (Furry) Brown. Our sub- ject and his wife are the parents of twelve children : Samuel, deceased, Mary A., Manuel H., Francis, Franklin P., Erastus M., George E., Albert E., Leonard, Will- iam B., Alice, and Minnie (deceased).
Elizabeth (Brown) Teeter, was also born in Bedford County, Pa., September 21, 1826. Her mother died when she was but three weeks old, and she lived with her grandparents until married. She is a member of the German Baptist Church.
Mr. Teeter belongs to the Knights of Labor organization, and cast his vote " with the Greenback party so long as they were in the field. He now affiliates with the People's Party.
G EORGE F. NEWLAND, at pres- ent a resident of section 35, Union Township, came to Harrison County, April 12, 1881, and bought the forty acres where he now lives, paying $9 per acre for it. He bought of the railroad company, and by paying for the same in a short time, got $1 per acre discount. At the same time he bought eighty-one acres in Potta- wattamie County, cornering with this, He built a one-story house 16x22 feet, and commenced breaking up the prairie sod, breaking about forty-five acres the first season, and kept on from year to year, un- til all was under cultivation. In 1881 he sold the Pottawattamie County land, and in 1891, bought forty acres of wild land, which he planted to corn the same year. This land is in Union Township.
One of the greatest drawbacks our sub- ject has encountered in Harrison County,
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was the hog cholera epidemic, which caused him to lose one hundred and eight- een head of hogs valued at $7 per head.
Mr. Newland is a Buckeye, and was born in Marlow County, Ohio, August 25, 1853, and is a son of Garrett and Mary A. Newland, natives of Virginia and Mary- land respectively. They reared a family of nine children : Sarah M., Mary E., Ann B., James F., Jamima, Elvina (deceased), George, Martha E., and Ervin L.
Our subject was married February 26, 1873, to Abigal L. Cheney, daughter of Amas and Hannah Cheney, natives of New York, who reared a family of ten chil- dren, of whom our subject's wife was the tenth child. The following gives the or- der of the children : Chandler, Sarah (de- ceased), Ithmer, Hetta, Amasa, Amos, Louisa, Alden, Asberry, Abigal L. Mr. and Mrs. Newland are the parents of one child, William Sargent, born December 31, 1876, the last day of the Centennial year. Politically our subject is identified with the People's party. In religious matter he belongs to the Christian Church.
C ARL PETERSON, a skilled black- smith, who wields his sledge and · fans his forge at Persia, has the honor of erecting the first building within this village.
Mr. Peterson was born in the north of Europe, midst the evergreen, pine and cedars, at Drammen, Norway, June 19, 1858, and remained in his native land until twenty-two years of age, when he saw visions of the New World, and sailed for America, July, 1880. Having learned the blacksmith trade in Norway, which by the
way, furnishes some of our most skillful ironworkers, he came to Douglass County, Minn., where he worked at his trade a few days, and then went out har- vesting, after which he returned to the blacksmith shop, where he found employ- ment until January 1, 1881, and then went to Minneapolis, but failing to find work in that city he went to Mankato and there chopped cord wood until spring, and then engaged to do railroad blacksmithing for a contractor who had two miles of road to grade near Persia, Iowa, but prior tothe town site being platted. While thus en- gaged our subject heard them talking about locating a town on this new rail- road, and concluded that he would be the first man on hand. He went to Defiance, Iowa, and staid until October and then came back to the present site of Persia before it had been surveyed and built him a blacksmith shop. He came to the locality with one hundred and fifteen dol- lars, but being a skillful workman, and well liked by the community, together with his temperate and frugal habits, he has made a financial success; as he owns a first class shop, with a well established business, owns a good residence in town, and an improved farm of eighty acres within a half mile of the place. He makes a special feature of plow work, and has a power emery-wheel, and all of the latest improvements, with which to carry on his business.
Our subject was married February 24, 1885, to Miss Elizabeth Atkin, of Persia, and they are the parents of four children- Frederick M., deceased., Iona J., an in- fant who died, and Leonard T.
Mrs. Peterson was born in England January 17. 1866, where her father died, and when she was six years old, her moth- er came to America, and first stopped in
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Johnson county, Iowa, but about 1878 they came to Shelby county.
Politically, our subject is a stanch sup- porter of the government of his adopted country, and votes with the Democratic party.
Much credit is due to Mr. Peterson, coming to our shores as he did only eleven years ago, unable to speak a word of Eng- lish language, and without any capital, save the good trade he had learned in his native land, together with a determina- tion to do, and to dare, in a land where honest toil always receives just reward.
AMES LAING entered the grocery business at the Village of Persia, in the spring of 1883, and still deals in in groceries and notions.
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November 24, 1885, he was appointed Postmaster at that point, serving until July 1, 1889. In 1888 he was elected to the office of Justice of the Peace, and is now holding his second term.
He was born in Fifeshire, Scotland, November 18, 1831, and May 12, 1854, he sailed for America, and came on from the coast to Whiteside County, Ill., where he arrived July 9, his mother coming with him. He farmed and taught school in Illinois until 1880, when he came to Shelby County, Iowa, and engaged in farming until he came to Persia.
He was married in his native land, April 28, 1854, to Miss Grace Stark, by whom seven children have been born- Margaret T., George W., David, Sophia J., Elizabeth C., Barbara C., James A.
18, 1882, he married Miss Mary A. Roundy, of Shelby County, Iowa, and they are the parents of four children -- Kenneth, Vesta, Verna, and Lora.
Politically, our subject is identified with the Democratic party. Mrs. Laing is a member of the Latter-Day Saints' Church.
B ENSON TUPPER, of the firm of Tupper Brothers, livery and feed stable, at the Village of Persia, was born in Susquehanna County, Pa., January 11, 1862, and three years later his parents moved to Carroll County, Ill., where they remained until 1877, and then came to Harrison County, Iowa, settling on section 35, Washington Township. Our subject remained with his parents until 1881, when he went to farming on his own account, renting for two years, and then bought an eighty-acre farm in Pottawattomie County, which he im- proved and lived upon until 1889, during which year he sold out and returned to Harrison County, and again rented a farm in Washington Township.
March 1, 1891, he formed a partnership with his brother, J. E. Tupper, and en- gaged in the livery business, and they now have the only business of the kind in Persia.
Besides the different lines of business followed by Mr. Tupper, it may be added that he has devoted some time to "teach- ing the young idea how to shoot "-that is, he has taught six terms in the pub- lic schools.
He was married to Miss Anna J. Plum, of Washington Township, April 16, 1881.
The wife of our subject died in White- side County, Ill., August 9, 1873, and June | They are the parents of three children :
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Walter L., born May 13, 1882; Harry J., July 22, 1887; and Charles B., Jan- uary 30, 1890, Politically, our subject is a supporter of the Republican party. In their religious belief, Mr. and Mrs. Tup- per belong to the Christian Church.
D R. FRANCIS M. HILL, a practic- ing physician, located at Persia, Iowa, is a native of the Buckeye State, and
was born in Kelloggsville, Ashtabula County, Ohio, August 11, 1844, and when only sixteen years of age went to London, England, where he studied medicine at Guy's Hospital for one year, and then re- turned home and practiced medicine a year, and June, 1861, enlisted in the Hos- pital Corps, and was detached, serving as nurse and assistant steward in the hospital, and was discharged September, 1861, but returned in about two months to take his old place in the hospital. In 1862, when Buell moved up the Mississippi, our sub- ject was in one of the hospitals on duty, but Gen. Halleck's order No. 22 found him unfit for duty, and he was booked for dis- charge, and, being ordered to Louisville, started for that place December 16, 1862, and on his way was overtaken and cap- tured by that notorious raider,. Morgan, and his men, who placed a rope around his neck to hang him, but through the in- terferance of officers the hanging was postponed, and he was taken to head- quarters in the presence of Gen. John Morgan and Gen. Basil W. Duke, who treated him more like a prince than a prisoner, and sent him on his way to Owensborough, Ky., and while there asleep in a wharf boat, the rebels cut a hole in
the boat and came near drowning him. A hospital boat came that way and he boarded it for Louisville, arriving there on the 26th of September, and while hunting the quartermaster, went into the Gault House just as Gen. Jeff C. Davis, of Indiana, shot Gen. Nelson. From this place our subject was transferred to the parole hospital at Indianapolis, Ind., but on account of ill health was discharged. We next find him going to New York, where he remained until February, 1863, when he went to Pennsylvania and was mustered into service and put on duty at Elmira, N. Y., in the hospital, and was transferred from that place to Washing- ton, D. C., and served in most of the hos- pitals in the vicinity of the National Cap- itol. When Richmond and Petersburg were surrounded by Grant's army, he was transferred to the Army of the Potomac, where he remained until the close of the . war.
He then made a visit to Ohio, after which he went to Forkville, Sullivan County, Pa., and practiced medicine eighteen months, at the end of which time his health failed him, and January, 1868, he came to Iowa, stopping for a short time at Burlington, where he practiced med- icine.
From there he went to Adams County, Iowa, remained a short time, when he re- moved to Shelby County, and settled at the old village of Manteno, where the Doctor will long be remembered.
He remained there until May, 1883, and then came to Persia, where he has prac- ticed his chosen profession ever since.
He is proprietor of a drug store, and has been connected with various news- papers since 1860, and is at present con- nected with the Missouri Valley News.
The Doctor was married to Miss Kate
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Kearns, in Afton, Union County, Iowa, October 16, 1869, by which union four children were born-Emma O., the wife of Samuel Alter, now living in Persia; Maude, Virgil A. and Robert B.
Politically our subject believes in the great principles of the Democratic party, believing it best serves the interests of the masses of the American people.
In their religious convictions, the Doc- tor and his wife are believers in the Diety of a magnanimous God. While his wife believes in the Revelation, the Doctor does not believe in the Pentateuch.
Remarkable indeed has been the vicis- situdes of this man's career, leaving the place of his nativity at the youthful age of sixteen years, and braving the dangers of the ocean's deep to England, to prepare himself for his profession, which he had thus early chosen, and his enlistment in the Union army at the very commence- ment of the great Civil War, his faithful professional duty in the numerous hos- pitals, where lay the wounded and dying ; his narrow escape from being sent into eter- nity by the Morgan raiders, for loyalty to the old stars and stripes, as well as the successful medical practice and journalistic work, which has marked the last two de- cades of his life, go toward making up a life replete with historical events.
S AMUEL H. LYTLE came to Har- rison County in the spring of 1866, and settled on section 10, of what is now Washington Township, but in 1880 he removed to section 18, where lie now lives. He was born in Pennsylvania, at the town of Muncy, June 26, 1809, and
removed with his parents, when a boy, to Portage County, Ohio, and stayed there until twenty-eight years of age, when he visited the home of his childhood, in the old Keystone State, where he married Miss Sarah J. Leland, November 25,1835, and then came back to Ohio, remained two years, and removed to Ray County, Mo., where he lived two years; returned to Ohio, remaining until 1854; came to Winnebago County, Ill., and, in 1856, with teams, came to Shelby County, Iowa. In 1858 they moved to Pottawattamie County, and thence to Harrison County in 1866.
Mr. and Mrs. Lytle are the parents of ten children-Mariah J., Harriett C., Charles H., Salina, George E., (deceased) ; Sarah D., Roda A., (deceased) ; Marietta, (deceased) ; an infant, (deceased); and Julia S.
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L ORING D. TUPPER, of the firm of Gamble & Tupper, general mer- chandise dealers at Persia, Iowa, has been a resident of Harrison County since 1876, when he settled on a farm on section 35, Washington Township, where he bought eighty acres of wild land; im- proved the same and lived upon it until the spring of 1891, when he sold, at the time having one hundred and twenty acres. He immediately bought J. H. Puckett's interest in the firm of Gamble & Co.
But to return to our subject's earlier life, that we may learn something con- cerning his career before coming to Har- rison County, it will first be stated that he came from the old Keystone State, and
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was born July 5, 1850, in Susquehanna County, Pa., and in 1865, removed with his parents to Carroll County, Ill., where he remained until the autumn of 1872, when he went to farming for himself, con- tinuing until 1875, and then came to Pot- tawattamie County, remained one winter, and then came to Harrison County where he has been an industrious and good citi- zen ever since.
An important event in his life occurred in Carroll County, Ill., November 18, 1872, for it was upon that day that he was united in marriage to Miss Ida B. Parker, of Freedom Township that county.
Mr. and Mrs. Tupper are the parents of seven children-J. DeEtte, L. Earl, de- ceased, Frank P., Floyd V., L. Grant, Emma A. and Robert.
Mr. Tupper and wife are firm believers in the Christian religion and are accept- able members of the Christian Church.
Politically, our subject is identified with the Republican party.
W ILLIAM E. CUTLER, a farmer living on section 8, of Magnolia Township, (township 79, range 43,) came to Harrison County in the spring of 1853, with his parents, who were among the earliest pioneers and who settled in Magnolia Township, on section 7. He re- mained with his parents until the spring of 1864, when he purchased forty acres of his present farm which was partly im- proved, having twenty-five acres broken, and a five-room cottage upon it; also a double log stable. In 1870 he built his present residence, which is a brick struc-
ture, 28x29 feet, and two storieshigh. In 1885 he built a barn 40x54 feet, which holds about twenty-five tons of hay. From time to time he has added to his farm until he now has three hundred and sixty-four acres, one-third of which is un- der the plow, one hundred acres in timber, forty acres in meadow and the balance in pasture land.
At the time he came to Magnolia Town- ship there were but few settlers and their nearest postoffice and trading point was Council Bluffs, while their nearest grist- mill was seven miles this side of the Bluffs. During the long, never-to-be-forgotten winter of 1856-57, they lost considerable live stock by reason of the deep snow and severity of the winter. Our subject was here before a single district school-house had been erected in the county, the first one being erected on section 7, directly opposite to Mr. Cutler's barn. Our subject hauled a log to Honey Creek, ten miles north of Council Bluffs, to get lum- ber for the gables of this building. The first house built in the village of Magnolia was erected the same summer they came, the same being the hotel building erected by Mr. Bates; a postoffice and general store soon followed. Our subject's father paid forty per cent. interest for money with which to enter his land, but when our subject bought his first land he paid $25 per acre for one "forty " and from $5 to $21 for the balance per acre. Nearly all the settlers the Cutler family found when they came to the county were Mor- mons.
Our subject was born in Michigan, Feb- ruary 20, 1838, and when a small child liis parents moved to Montgomery County, Ill., and when he was five years of age they moved to Fairfield, Iowa, and in 1851 to Pottawattamie County, and pur-
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chased a claim near Council Bluffs, but left the same in the spring of 1853, and came to Harrison County.
Mr. Cutler was married in Taylor Town- ship, September 17, 1863, to Miss Violet Hall, by whom ten children were born- William I., September 25, 1864; Albert B., April 13, 1866; Frank E., March 5, 1868; Hattie M., February 16, 1870; George M., April 1, 1872; Charles I., January 16, 1874; Henry C., March 31, 1876; Florence V., January 1, 1878; Nettie M., March 20, 1880, and Mollie G., August 20, 1882; William I. died May 5, 1865.
Violet (Hall) Cutler was born in Mus- kingum County, Ohio, June 26. 1847, and in 1849 her parents moved to Tipton County, Ind., where they remained until the fall of 1852, and then moved to Mills County, Iowa, and the spring following came to Harrison County and settled in Taylor Township.
Mr. and Mrs. Cutler are both members of the Congregational Church, he unit- ing in 1863, and his wife in 1867.
Robert Hall, father of Mrs. Cutler, was born in Armstrong County, Pa., Novem- ber 2, 1808, and about 1845, came to Mus- kingum County, Ohio, and died in Har- rison County, Iowa, May 18, 1868. He was a member of the Dunkard Church. His wife, Catherine (Wartinbee) Hall, was also born in Armstrong County, Pa., October 5, 1818, and remained there until the day of her marriage. She Jeft Iowa in 1881, and is now living in Crook County, Wyo. They were the parents of eight children, Mrs. Cutler being the second child.
When her father came to Harrison County he bought a claim upon which was a double log house. He first pre- empted about two hundred and twenty acres. After securing his land and pur-
chasing two cows, he had but twenty cents left. He left Indiana with a horse- team, but lost one of them on the way out. In December, 1856-the hard win- ter-John Ingerson and his brother, (neighbors to Mr. Hall) went out hunting ; it commenced to rain and sleet, then turned to snow, and set in one of the worst storms of the season, and one of the brothers was frozen to death, as was also a man by the name of Barrett. That same day Mr. Cutler was at Calhoun, to mill, but after much trouble succeeded in making his way home.
The space is all too short in which to give an account of the many hardships endured by the pioneers of this section. But this was in their favor-they came to a good country and the toil of their hands was usually rewarded by a bountiful har- vest and provided with a good living. Doing their part manfully, Nature came to their rescue and crowned their every honest effort, making them successful husbandmen.
B S. GREENE, one of the pioneer settlers of Harrison Township, is a native of New London County, Conn., born at the town of Griswold, February 9, 1832. He is the son of Will- iam and Mary Greene, natives of Con- necticut, of English extraction. Our sub- ject is the great-grandson of Maj. General Nathaniel Greene, of Revolutionary fame.
Our subject's parents lrave always made it their home in Connecticut. They were farmers doing an extensive agricultural business. The father died in the spring of 1861, but the mother is still living at
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the advanced age of eighty years. They reared a family of nine children, our sub- ject being the only one who came farther West than Pennsylvania. He was reared to farm life, and attended the schools, common to New England, having to walk three miles to attend, and only being per- mitted to go during the winter season. Lucy E. Gallup became his wife, Decem- ber 29, 1855. She was a native of Con- necticut and died June 13, 1858, at the age of twenty years. Two children were born by this union, Orra, wife of James A. Moore, born November 21, 1856, and now a resident of Oregon; Lucy G., born June 7, 1858, the wife of Abraham Wangard, of Omaha, Neb. Mr. Greene was again married, September 29, 1859, to Miss Har- riet A. Kinney, of Griswold, Conn. She was born in the same place, March 24, 1842. By this marriage union, three chil- dren were born-George W., May 27, 1862, now in the employ of the Central School Supply Company, of Chicago, and a graduate of the Iowa Agricultural Col- lege at Ames; Saralı A., June 26, 1864, wife of Frank Rogers, a resident of Dunlap, Iowa, and Frank D., October 27, 1866. He is at present operating his father's farm.
When our subject had attained his majority, he went to work at the car- penter's trade. He followed this trade un- til he enlisted as a Union soldier in the Civil War, becoming a member of Com- nany D, Connecticut Volunteer Infantry, June 18, 1862, and was discharged, Aug- ust 18, 1865, at Camp Buckingham, Con- necticut. Among the hotly contested battles, he participated in, may be men- tioned Brandy Station, battle of the Wilderness, battle of Cold Harbor and bat- tle of Petersburg. He was commissioned while in the State Service of Connecticut, under William A. Buckingham, as first
Lieutenant, of Company D, Third Regi- ment, of State Militia, assuming the rank on the 19th of July, 1858. He was a member of the Militia for nine years.
After our subject returned from the Civil War, he remained in Connecticut until the spring of 1870, when he accompanied by his family, came West and located in Harrison Township, Harrison County, Iowa. After he had lived here about six years, and in the autumn of 1875, he pur- chased one hundred acres of wild prairie land, on section 22, where he has wrought out for himself and family, a home sur- rounded with all the comforts known to modern farm life. His hundred and four acres of fine farming land was brought to its present high state of cultivation, by and through his own efforts, as when he first took possession of it, it was an un- broken tract of prairie, as was a good por- tion of the country, surrounding it. Only through years of hard toil and self-sacri- fice has our subject been enabled to be so comfortably surrounded.
Politically, Mr. Greene is a Republican, and takes great interest in educational matters, and has been a member of the School Board. He is a member of Shields Post, No. 83, of the Grand Army of the Republic, at Dunlap, while Mrs. Greene is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and also of the Farmers' Wives. Society.
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