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He is an honored member of Hospitable Lodge No. 244 of A. F. & A. M., of which he was Secretary for five years.
New Year's day, 1871, marked a new era in this gentleman's life, for it was upon that day that he was united in mar- riage to Julia A. Ford, a native of Pala- tine, Ill., the daughter of Alexander and Helen Ford.
Mr. and Mrs. Pease are the parents of one child-Irvin Ca Verne.
Our subject has had a very eventful
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career thus far in his life, including the hair breadth escapes he had during the days of the Rebellion. His moral qual- ities, and public spirit have made him a valuable factor in the community in which he has lived.
R EV. ARTHUR STOTT, Pastor of the Baptist Church at Logan, is a native of England, and came to Har- rison County in 1888. He was born near Manchester, England, in 1829, and is the son of John and Jane (O'Neil) Stott, both of whom are deceased. They were the parents of four children, of whom our subject was the second child. His early life was spent in England, and he received his early education in a Government school, endowed by an old resident, and known as "Oldham Blue Coat School," graduating from the same in 1844. He came to the United States in 1854, loca- ting at Jacksonville, Ill., where he worked at the tailor's trade, and began preaching in 1859, at Winchester, Scott County, Ill., having preached one year, at Tremont, Ill. During the Civil War he enlisted in the First Nebraska Cavalry, at a point twelve miles east of Little Rock, Ark., was taken prisoner, August 24, 1864, and was taken to Benton Barracks. He was mus- tered out of service, June 15, 1866, and went to Centerville, Iowa, as a minister, and lived in Washington, Washington County, at Columbus City, Erie, Ill., and went from there to Atlantic, Iowa, and also lived at Ft. Madison ; lived eight years at Denmark, Iowa, then removed to Tay- lor County, and from there to Riceville, and in February, 1888, came to Logan.
Politically Mr. Stott is a hearty sup- porter of Republican party, and belongs to the Grand Army Post at Logan. He was married in 1849, in England, to Mary Walker, daughter of James and Alice Walker. Mr. Stott died January 15, 1861, leaving three children-John, Lucy and William, all living. In March, 1875, our subject married Rebecca J. Ward, at Pella, Iowa. She was the daughter of Eben and Mary (Armstrong) Ward, both of whom are deceased.
Mr. and Mrs. Stott are the parents of three children-Royal, Nellie and Mary. Since Mr. Stott has been connected with the ministry, he has officiated at the mar- riage ceremony of one hundred and twenty couples, attended one hundred and twenty- nine funerals, and administered the ordi- nance of baptism to one hundred and sixty-six persons ; built a church edifice at at Atlantic, Iowa, and improved church property at various places.
LONZO GRAHAM HARD, (re- tired), who has spent about half of his life in Western Iowa, will form the subject of this biographical memoir. He was born in Shoreham, Vt., May 6, 1826, and is a son of Orestes and Laura (Benedict) Hard. The father was a tanner and currier, and laterin life taught school and farmed some. The Hard family were of English ancestry, but have been in this country for many generations. The father of our subject, was in the War of 1812, and was the father of six sons and four daughters, our subject being the seventhi child, and one of two now living, Alonzo and a younger brother, James D.,
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a resident of Edwards County, Kan., being the only survivors. The family removed from Vermont to Lockport, N. Y., and from there to Jackson County, Ohio, where the mother died at the age of sixty- four years. The father afterward removed to New Jersey, where he spent the re- mainder of his days, dying at the age of seventy-four years. Our subject's uncle, Ezra Hard, lived to be one hundred and eight years old, and it will thus be seen that our subject descended from long-lived ancestors.
Our subject received his education in Lockport, N. Y., and also attended school for a time after removing to Ohio. At the early age of eleven years, Mr. Hard began learning the printer's trade at Chillicothe, Ohio. After serving his apprenticeship, he attended school again and later on took charge of an office in Jackson, Ohio, and established a Democratic newspaper at McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio. In 1854 he came to Marengo, Iowa, and printed the first paper in that place. Subsequently he worked at the newspaper business in Poweshiek County, Iowa, and had charge of the first newspaper established in Har- rison County, known as the Harrison County Flag. He remained in Magnolia from 1857 to 1871, lived in Logan one year, and in 1872 removed to Missouri Valley. He served as County Clerk and Auditor in 1865-66. Among other newspapers he has edited in Iowa, may be named the Logan Courier.
Our subject was united in marriage De- cember 3, 1846, when not quite twenty-one years of age, in Jackson County, Ohio, to Mary Donald, a native of Ross County, Ohio. Her father was English, while her mother was born in Ireland, but reared in America; they are both deceased. Her father was buried in Cincinnati, and her
mother in Illinois. Mrs. Hard has one brother living in Florida, an orange grower.
The home of Mr. and Mrs. Hard has been blessed by the birth of four children : Laura J., wife of William Frazier, residing at Arnold, Custer County, Neb. ; Beta M., wife of A. K. Riley, living in Omaha, where he is practicing law; Mary R., wife of J. B. McCurley, residing at Logan; William E., (deceased), died of diphtheria, when four years old.
Politically, Mr. Hard was a Democrat in early years, but when the Republican party was organized in 1856, he joined that party, and has been a stanch supporter of it ever since. Mr. and Mrs. Hard were members of the Congregational Church for twenty years, but upon coming to Missouri Valley, not finding the church of their choice, became members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. At one time our subject belonged to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Mr. and Mrs. Hard, though getting along in years, are a well preserved couple, and their declin- ing years bid fair to be the happiest of their lives.
W ILLIAM H. SQUIRE, real-estate and loan-agent at Dunlap, has been a resident of the place since August, 1883, since which time he has transacted a large amount of business in his line, handling as high as $200,000 worth of business in one year. He also represents some of the leading fire insurance com- panies, including one of Burlington, Iowa, Rockford, Ill., and Knoxville, Tenn. He is a Notary Public, and has been Justice of the Peace for six years, and was Mayor of Dunlap in 1887, It may be said that
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he is one of the enterprising business lights of his town.
Politically, Mr. Squire is ever ready to explain why he is a supporter of the Re- publican party. He is a member of the following civic societies: Hospitable Lodge, No. 244; Ark Chapter, No. 89, of the Masonic fraternity ; Shields Post, No. 83, G. A. R., of which he is Past Commander; Knights of Pythias Lodge, No. 284, and Past Council of Acorn Camp, No. 325, of the Modern Woodmen of America.
Mr. Squire is a native of Long Island, N. Y., born November 13, 1844. He is the son of Daniel and Mary (Keeling) Squire, of English and Scotch extraction. He is one of a family of seven children. The mother and one sister reside at Ottumwa, Iowa, one sister at Burlington, Iowa; one brother in Wisconsin, a brother and sister in Council Bluffs, and one brother in the South. The father died at Ottumwa in November, 1889.
When our subject was three years old the family removed to Chicago, and after two years removed to Rockford, Ill., where he was reared and educated. He enlisted as a member of Company K, Seventeenth Illinois Cavalry, and was honorably dis- charged December 22, 1865. He was in several hot engagements, and received a flesh wound in the calf of his leg. After coming out of the army, he followed pho- tography for seventeen years, at McGre- gor, Rockford and Ottawa, Ill., and Oma- ha, Neb. He has been engaged in his present business ten years, two years at Council Bluffs and eight at Dunlap.
ters, ranging from two to twelve years of age: Edith, Minnie, Maude, Gertrude, and Ethel. Mrs. Squire is a member of the Episcopal Church.
Our subject is in the true sense of the word a self-made business man, and one who possesses every characteristic of a true citizen, while he and his estimable family are an ornament to the society in which they move.
R EUBEN NEWTON, a lumber dealer at Missouri Valley, has been identified with the interests of Har- rison County, since August, 1868. He was born in Cattaraugus County, N. Y., January 6, 1846. He is the son of Jesse and Louisa (Puddy) Newton. The grandparents on the Puddy side came from England, and his mother was three years of age when she came across the ocean. The Newtons are of American birth, back for many generations. Our subject's grandfather Newton, was one of the first settlers in Cattaraugus County, N. Y. Our subject's father and mother reared a family of seven children, he being the sixth. There were five sons and two daughters, all living. The father died in 1849 and the mother still resides in Salamanca, N. Y. Our subject received his education in the district schools of his native county, and when twelve years of age worked on a farm at $7 per month, and in 1860, when he was fourteen years of age, he moved to Sycamore, Ill., and remained two years, after which he lo- cated at Boone, Iowa, where he remained until 1867, and came from there to Mis- souri Valley. He was the first watchman
In 1878 he was married at Ottawa, Ill., to Miss L. E. Pierce, daughter of J. F. and Mary (Roe) Pierce, who was born in New York State July 23, 1848. Mr. and Mrs. Squire are the parents of five daugh- | for the Sioux City & Pacific Railroad, and
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remained at Missouri Valley about two months, and then went to River Sioux, remaining with the company for fourteen years. He began studying telegraphy at Boone, and completed his course at, River Sioux, at which place he handled lumber in connection with his railroad work. In 1833 he moved to Missouri Val- lev, where he established his present lum- ber business. Politically our subject is a radical Republican. While at Little Sioux he was School Treasurer for that town- ship for several years. He is a member of the Masonic order, was the first Master Mason in the Little Sioux Lodge, and belongs to Valley Chapter of that order.
Our subject was united in marriage July 6, 1868, to Sarah L. Davis, born in Little Valley, N. Y. She was the daughter of E. J. Davis, and Fannie (Shannon) Davis, who moved to Harrison County in 1870. The father died in 1876 and the mother is now living at River Sioux. Mr. and Mrs. Newton are the parents of two sons-Jesse D., born May 5, 1872, and Harry R., December 15 1880.
Mrs. Newton is a member of the Metli- odist Episcopal Church at Missouri Val- ley. During the residence of Mr. Newton in Harrison County, he has made many friends, who value him in a business point of view, as well as socially, because of his uprightness and fair dealing. A portrait of this man very appropriately finds a place in this volume.
R OBERT H. EVERETT, a farmer residing on section 26, Jackson Township, came to Harrison Coun- ty, in the spring of 1867, in company with his parents, who first located in this township and the next spring went to
Preparation, Monona County, where they remained long enough to harvest one crop, and then moved back to the William Ar- thur place, and wintered in an old log cabin. Our subject bought his present farm in 1868, or rather forty acres of it, which was then partly improved and for which he paid $20 per acre. Upon the place was an old house, built from native lumber. He has since built a new house, a barn, granery and cribs, put in stock scales, and provided his place with wind- power. His farm now consists of two hundred and thirty acres, fifty acres of which are under the plow. In 1886 our sub- ject left his farin and went to draying in Sioux City, which, however, did not prove successful, so he returned to his farm: He was in the country through the grass- hopper years, and saw some of the hard times told about by pioneers.
He was born March 7, 1856, in Boston. Mass. He is a son of Harrison and Eliza- beth Everett, natives of New Hampshire and Vermont, respectively, who were the parents of three children : Julia F., Robert H., Milton M., all living in Iowa. Our subject lived in Massachusetts until two years of age, when his father removed to Chicago and from there to Harrison Coun- ty, Iowa. He received only a common- school education and was in Chicago dur- ing the Civil War, and remembers well the day that they were to liberate the rebel prisoners from Camp Douglas.
He was united in marriage December 5, 1875, to Mary C. Booth, the daughter of William and Eliza Booth, natives of Ken- tucky and Ohio, who were the parents of five children : Mary C., Thomas William, Elizabeth, Charles C., Ander A., all living in Harrison County, Iowa.
Mrs. Everett's father died, and her mother married James Cooper, of Little
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Sioux. Our subject and his wife are the parents of four children : Bessie M., Sarah E., Robert William, (deceased) ; and Lill- ian A.
Both he and his wife are acceptable members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He belongs to the Farmers' Al- liance and Industrial Union.
W ATSON C. ATWELL, a farmer re- siding in Little Sioux Township, and one of those who found their way to Harrison County in 1877, was born in Grafton County, N. H., in 1842. He is a son of Horace and Alice (Lund) At- well, both of whom are deceased, and who were natives of New Hampshire. His grand-father was James and his grand- mother Sarah (Lawrence) Atwell, while on the mother's side the grand-parents were Stephen and Rachel Shed. .
In our subject's father's family there were five children, our subject being the third : David, now living in New Hamp- shire; Hannah, (deceased); W. C., our subject ;. Maria M., now Mrs. Foster, of New Hampshire, and Eldora, deceased.
Our subject spent his early life in the old Granite State, and there obtained his education at the common schools. He began tilling the soil for himself in New Hampshire, in 1865, and continued it until he came to Harrison County, in 1877, when he located on section 23, of Little Sioux Township. In 1882 he removed to his present place, which consists of seven hundred acres, three hundred of which are under cultivation. Our subject has a beautiful farm and everything shows him to be a man of thrift and order, and no
one appreciates the fertile soil of Harrison County more than a man who was reared among the rock-ribbed hills of old New Hampshire .-
Mr. Atwell was married in 1873 to Nellie L. Wilmot, the daughter of Ira and Eliza E. (Roberts). Wilmot, both of whom are still living in New Hampshire. Mr. and Mrs. Atwell are the parents of one child, Valedo C., born March 13, 1874.
Mr. Atwell is a stanch supporter of the Republican party, believing as he does, that this party gives to the American peo- ple the best form of self-government.
When Mr. Atwell came to Harrison County he purchased ten acres of land and by the dint of his own industry, has accu- mulated his large farm. His first ten-acre lot was the only land enclosed by a fence between the River Sioux and the Monona County line. From a herd of eight cattle our subject has increased until he now has two hundred and twenty-five head, also has three hundred hogs and sixteen head of horses, all showing what a man can do in the Hawkeye State, through a series of years.
AVID R. ROGERS, a resident of Dunlap, and one of the earliest pio- neers of Harrison County, came in 1852 from West Virginia, and located at Harris Grove, where lie took a pre-emp- tion of one hundred and sixty acres of land on section 10, of LaGrange Town- ship. He at once began the erection of a log house 12x14 feet. The logs in this building were hewed, and the roof was made of clapboards, while the floor was
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made of puncheon, and a sod chimney graced one end of the building. The first few years they were in the country, they endured many hardships. They were far from a market place; Kanesville, twenty- five miles away, being the nearest point. To provide bread for the household, Mr. Rogers went to Butler's mill on the Boyer River, near where Woodbine now stands, twelve miles, where he got wheat crushed and then had to turn a bolt by hand, in order to get flour that was in anyways fit to eat. Wild game was found in great quantities, and their neighbors were few and far between. The Rogers' lived in the little cabin referred to, through the cold winter of 1856-57, and until 1859, when they erected a more commodious residence, on the same farm. This building was a one-story and a half hewed log house, with a shingle roof, while the lumber in it was cotton- wood. In 1854 our subject entered three hundred and forty acres of land on sections 10 and 11, in LaGrange Township, making him three hundred and forty acres in all. One hun- dred acres of this was timber land. Mr. Rogers improved this place, and lived in the last named house until 1873, having in the meantime made the purchase of one hundred and sixty acres on section 15, upon which he subsequently built a frame house. The same was a two-story build- ing, now occupied by Mr. Fagan. Here Mr. Rogers made his home until 1884, and then came to Harrison Township, pur- chasing a farm. In January, 1891, he re- moved to Dunlap, where he has retired from an active life. For long years he was an extensive farmer and raiser of horses, cattle and sheep.
Mr. Rogers is a son of John and Eliza- beth (Cox) Rogers, and was born in Green- briar County, West Va. His parents were
of Irish-German extraction, on the pater- nal side, and of English-French on the maternal side. His parents also came to Harrison County, the spring of 1852, and remained in the county as long as they lived, the father dying November 20, 1880, and the mother April 20, 1869. The father was a farmer and was interested with our subject for a number of years. The father was a Republican in his politi- cal choice, and he and his wife were mem- bers of the Presbyterian Church. They reared a family of seven children-James D., a resident of Harris Grove; Michael, (deceased) ; Catherine, widow of William Hobbs, who died in the Civil War; Eliza- beth, (deceased) ; Jolın M. (deceased), a soldier in the late war; David, our sub- ject; Isabella, wife of William S. Bryant, a resident of Omalıa.
David was reared upon a farm, and ed- ucated at the public schools, and also re- ceived an academic education. He was married in December, 1855, to Henrietta Abrams, who was born in Cayuga County, N. Y., in 1835, and was the daughter of Benijah and Elizabeth (Crossuth) Abrams, natives of New York and Canada. Her parents both died in Harrison County, Iowa, the father May 27, 1878, aged sev- enty-six years, three months and twenty- one days, and the mother August 16, 1890, aged eighty-six years, nine months and twenty three days. They came to the county in 1854. The father was a black- smith by trade and also followed farming.
Mr. and Mrs. Rogers are the parents of nine children-Laura S., wife of John Knight, a resident of this county ; Ella B., widow of Albert B. Rogers, who now re- sides at Dunlap; Adolphus L., a resident of Dougl s Township; Frank H., a resi- dent of Dunlap; Eli C., a barber, living in Knox County, Neb .; Wilbur L., a resi-
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dent of Denver, Col., where he follows the occupation of gripman on the cable- line ; Millie A., wife of Alvah J. Yarring- ton, a resident of Dunlap; George W., a resident of Cedar County, Neb., and Ho- mer, at home.
Our subject and his wife are consistent members of the Presbyterian Church, and both belong to the Mill Creek Farmers' Club, and are counted among the most worthy citizens of the county.
Mr. Rogers is a stanch Republican, and has represented his township in nearly all its local offices, and was one of the leading promoters of the educational interest of the county, and has always la- bored for anything that tended to build up educational, moral, and religious in- stitutions.
AMES W. RUDD, of Logan, las been a resident of Harrison County since June, 1870, when he engaged in the furniture business; his trade being that of a cabinet-maker. He con- tinued in that business until about 1881, when he sold, and engaged in farming in Union Township. He traded a house and lot and his stock of furniture for this farm. He tilled the soil, until November, 1886, and then bought the lumber and grain business belonging to T. M. C. Logan.
Our subject came to this county, from Amsterdam, Va., where he was born Feb- ruary 21, 1838. His father was William T. Rudd, a native of the Old Dominion State, born in Alexandria, County of Loudon. His mother was Lydia M. (Hutchings) Rudd, born at Winchester, Va.
Mr. Rudd attended the common school
of his native State, and acting the part of a wise youth, he learned the trade of a cabinet-maker, the same as his father had followed before him. He was of a family of three children, and was married in 1859, to Miss Sarah C. Sprinkle, who was born May 4, 1842, in Rockingham County, Va. Her father was John M. R. Sprinkle, also a native of Virginia, and of German de- scent. The mother was Mary Jane (Bar- ley) Sprinkle, also of Rockingham County. She was of a family of ten children, and was the third in order.
Mr. and Mrs. Rudd have had their home cheered by the advent of four children : Charles William and John Wesley, (twins) ; Amanda Jane, now wife of James T. Bar- nett, and Ada Virginia. Charles William died October 28, 1882 as the result of a gun-shot accidentally discharged while taking a gun from a load of lumber. Politi- cally, Mr. Rudd is a supporter of the Dem- ocratic party. In religious matters, he and his family are Methodists. Our sub- ject is a member of the Masonic fraternity Chrysolite Lodge No. 420 at Logan, as well as Ancient Order of United Work- men. In his business undertakings, he has been quite successful. In April, 1891 he disposed of his grain business and now is exclusively engaged in the lumber busi- ness, as well as owning the farm above re- ferred to.
REDERICK C. BEAN, a farmer ·located on section 26, of Jackson Township, came to Harrison County in April 1883. He first located on the farm he now occupies, consisting of a one hundred and thirty acre tract, with twenty
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acres under the plow, and a small house upon it. He moved into this house merely as a place of shelter from the elements, and commenced improving his place. He built a one story and a half house, 24x32 feet, with a wing sixteen feet square, and a thirty-two foot addition ; also a barn and carriage house. He set out an orchard of six hundred apple trees and ninety trees of smaller fruit. From time to time, as he has been prospered, he has added to his original land until be now possesses four hundred and forty acres of rich, Harrison County soil, one hundred and twenty-five acres of which are under the plow, the balance is in meadow and pas- ture land.
Our subject was born in Lebanon, N. H., July 1, 1858. He is the son of John W., and Frances S. Bean, natives of Ver- mont and New Hampshire respectively, who had no other children besides our subject.
John W. Bean, father of our subject, enlisted in 1861, as a private in the volun- teer service, to put down the Civil War, and was promoted from the ranks to Second Lieutenant, then to First Lieuten- ant, and from that to Captain of his Company. He first enlisted in the Fifth New Hampshire volunteers. After the close of the War he went to Washington and worked in the Treasury Department for nine months, when he received a com- mission as Second Lieutenant in the Regular Army, and was retired, holding the rank of Captain, in September 1890.
Our subject remained with his parents 'midst the hills and forests of the old Granite State, until he was nine years of age, and then went to Washington after his father received his appointment in the Treasury Department, and when he re- ceived his commission for the regular
army he and his mother went back to New Hampshire and remained two years, and then both went to Indian- ola, Tex., and remained one year and then spent a year in New Mexico and returned to New Hampshire. Our subject attended the High School one year at Bristol and then went to Governeur's Island, N. Y., and attended a preparatory school, and in 1874 entered Anandale College, where he spent four years, then went to Germantown, N. Y., and was engaged in the mercantile business at Clermont, N. Y., two years and worked on a farm near Germantown for three years, and from there came to Harrison County, Iowa.
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