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Our subject lived in Pottawattamie County until six years of age, when his parents moved to this county.
April 25, 1875, he was married to Mar- garet H. Blackman, daughter of George J. and Harriet Blackman, the former a native of Canada, and the latter of New York State. Mr. and Mrs. Blackman were the parents of nine children-Stephen M., Charles W., Margaret H., John H., deceased; Juliet, George J., Harriet E., Chester H., Laura B.
Our subject and his wife are the parents of the following children-Mark L., born February 3, 1876; John S., July 27, 1881; and Edna E., November 20, 1883.
Mr. Garner is a member of the Masonic order, belonging to Magnolia Lodge, No. 126. Both he and his wife are members of the Latter Day Saints Church.
Politically, he is identified with the People's party.
2 ENRY GARNER, one of the most prosperous farmers in Raglan Town- ship, residing on section 34, came to Harrison County in March, 1861, which was a month before the Civil War commenced. He first located on
the farm he now occupies, consisting of two hundred acres of partly improved land. There was a small log house upon the place, 14x16 feet, seven feet high. This humble cabin home did good service as a residence for four years. In the fall of 1865 he erected a brick house from brick which he burned himself, the same being thirty-six feet square and two stories high. He also built a barn, 30x40 feet, horse stables, cribbing, etc. He dug three wells, and erected three windmills; set out an orchard of seven hundred trees, together with shade trees. While the years have, one by one, been slipping away, this man has not been idle, for his landed possessions now aggregate eight hundred and fifteen acres, two hundred being under the plow, while the balance is in pasture, meadow, and timber land. Mr. Garner has seen much of the hard times co-incident to pioneer days in Har- rison County, being here, as he was, ahead of the railroads, and through the grasshopper years.
He was born July 13, 1827, in North Carolina. His parents were David and Jane Garner, natives of North Carolia, whose children were as follows: George, Phillip, Sarah, Nancy, Elizabeth, Will- iam, David, John, Eliza, Henry and Marinda. All are deceased except Will- iam and Henry.
Our subject lived in North Carolina until seven years of age, when his parents removed to Adams County, Ill., where they engaged at farming and remained there until the spring of 1846, and then came to Council Bluffs, Iowa. At this time our subject was twenty years of age. Land was not yet in the market, but he "squatted" on a piece of land which he afterwards pre-empted. He improved this land and lived upon it until he came to
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Harrison County. He was there during the hard snow winter of 1856-57. In 1846. after landing at Council Bluffs, they re- ceived orders from the Government to not let any of the settlers cross the Missouri River until they raised five hundred men as. soldiers for the Mexican War. This number of men was raised and placed under command of Col. Kane. Our sub- ject had three brothers who enlisted, leaving their families in tents on the east bank of the Missouri River. It will be remembered that this was at a very early day, when Iowa was yet a Territory, with Indians on every hand, and was, verily, the times that tried men's souls.
Mr. Garner was united in marriage February 16, 1851, to Anna M. Mahoney, born April 16, 1833, and the daughter of Stephen Mahoney, who was a native of Maryland, and whose family consisted of the following children : Rachel, Ann, Har- riet E., deceased; Theodore, James ; Jer- ry, William, and Joseph, deceased, and Elizabeth.
Our subject and his wife are the parents of fourteen children, twelve of whom are living. They were born and named in the following order: Amanda J., November 24, 1851; Margaret E., December 8, 1852; William F., March 5, 1854; George W., April 11, 1855; Harriet E., April 5, 1856; Melissa C., December 30, 1857; Philip John, November 11, 1859; Stephen H., deceased, born March 1, 1862; Eva, de- ceased, born August 15, 1864; Sarah E., and Mary E. (twins), born April 17, 1866; James, June 21, 1868; Ella Bertha, July 29, 1871, and Minnie M., October 4, 1874.
Politically, Mr. Garner is identified with the Democratic party, and has held the office of County Supervisor, School Di- rector, and School Treasurer. Both he and his wife are members of the Latter
Days Saints Church, and he sometimes acts in the capacity of Pastor.
In conclusion, it may be added that his father remained with him until the date of his death. He lived to the extreme old age of one hundred and five years, and was buried in Pottawattamie County, on the farm.
S IDNEY PITT, who came to Harri- son County, in April, 1883, lo- cated on the present site of York- shire, and his present residence is his farm on section 28, Cass Towrship, which place he purchased as wild land, some time previous. He has four hundred acres, three hundred and seventy-five acres of which are under the plow. Like most of the prosperous farmers of Iowa, our sub- ject is an extensive raiser of corn, and feeder of cattle, usually keeping about eighty head.
Mr. Pitt was born February 12, 1847, in Spencer County, Ind., and is the son of Rodney and Sarah (Edwards) Pitt. Rod- ney Pitt was born midst the mountain scenes of Vermont, September 25, 1800, and left the Green Mountain State in 1818, emigrating to Indiana. He was mar- ried in 1823. His wife, Sarah Edwards, was born in Grayson County, Ky., July 12, 1805, and died December 16, 1857, in Indiana. They reared a family of thirteen children, of whom our subject was the twelfth. His father died when he was about three years old, and the mother when he was eleven, after which his home was with his brother until he was fif- teen years of age, when he commenced working out at $6 permonth, continuing
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for six years. In 1865 he went to Seward County, Neb., and commenced farming for himself. He remained there until De- cember, 1870, then came to Pottawattamie County, Iowa, where he purchased a farm of eighty-five acres, and remained until the time of his coming to this county. He was united in marriage, Christmas day, 1871, in Pottawattamie County, to Pa- tience Graybill. Their family consists of ten children, all of whom are at home: David W., born October 14, 1872; Sidney, November 20, 1873; Rodney Levi, De- cember 12, 1874; Milton B., June 2, 1876; LeRoy and LeGrande (twins) born Sep- tember 4, 1877. LeRoy died January 16, 1879, and LeGrande April 15, 1881 ; Sarah, born November 14, 1879, died April 13, 1881; Patience L., born December 19, 1882; Jesse A., December 19, 1885; Mary C., April 18, 1889.
Mr. Pitt enlisted in Company K, Seven- teenth Kentucky Cavalry, September 15. 1864, served one year, receiving his dis- charge September 20, 1865. His four older brothers served most of the time for four years. Politically, Mr. Pitt is a stanch supporter of the Republican party.
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6 HOMAS D. TOVEY, a farmer liv- ing on section 2, Raglan Township, has been identified with the history of the county since the spring of 1869, when he accompanied his parents to the county. His father was a blacksmith and located at Magnolia. Thomas D. re- mained at home, until he grew to man- hood, and then rented land for about six years, and then bought one hundred and twenty acres of partly improved land, where he now lives.
Our subject was born in Jo Daviess County, Ill., in August, 1856. He is the son of William and Anna Tovey, natives of Canada and Ireland, respectively. He is the eldest of a family of six children- Thomas D., Ellen, Anna, Maggie, Eliza- beth, and one who died in infancy. Thir- teen years of our subject's life were spent in Illinois. He was united in marriage in February, 1881, to Alice Mclaughlin, daughter of Neil and Mary McLaughlin, natives of Ireland, whose six children were as follows: John, Rose, Dennis, Neil, Alice, and one who died in infancy. To our subject and his wife three children were born; Neil, December 10, 1883; Dan- iel, November 17, 1885; and Joseph, No- vember 6, 1887. Politically Mr. Tovey favors the Alliance movements, and in re- ligious matters he and his wife are Roman Catholics.
C HARLES CLEVELAND,a resident of section 15, Lincoln Township, came to Harrison County in the spring of 1885 and bought the place on which he now lives. At the time there was but eleven acres of breaking on the place, the land costing $18 per acre. He at once commenced breaking, built a barn, outbuildings, etc., and he now has it all enclosed and one hundred acres under the plow. His farm is provided with one hundred and sixty fruit trees, and the whole premises have a home-likelook. The second year after he moved here he lost eighty-seven head of hogs and nine cattle, besides one horse, making a total loss of $1,900 in one year.
He was born in Baltimore, Md., in 1836 (August 16). He is a son of Daniel and
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Elizabeth (McFarland) Cleveland, na- tives of Scotland and America respect- ively. They were the parents of fourteen children, the following nine of whom are living: John, George, Charles, Henry, Mary, Hellener, Margaret, Elizabeth, and Catherine.
Our subject lived in Maryland until he was of age, and worked out at odd jobs in the shops, and finally learned the boiler- maker's trade. He enlisted in the navy sloop of war "Dakota," under Capt. Sands, and was taken sick in Hong Kong, China. He was with the navy about three years, receiving his discharge in 1863, and then went to railroading in Delaware. He also worked at the paper-making trade, and in 1869 came to Council Bluffs, where he railroaded for the Rock Island Company two years and then worked thirteen years as foreman of the boiler works at that place. After leaving the shops he bought forty acres of land in Pottawattamie County, near Council Bluffs, which he traded for the one he now lives upon.
He was married October 20, 1863, to Mary A. McLain, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Carson) McLain, natives of Ireland, who had two children. Mr. and Mrs. Cleveland are the parents of one child-Charles H., born October 22, 1864, in Wilmington, Del. He is now mar- ried. Politically, our subject is iden- tified with the Republican party.
AMES H. CROM, a farmer located on section 18, of Lincoln Township, and who came to the county April 1, 1853, will form the subject of this sketch.
He was born in Wood County, Ohio,
April 6, 1846. His parents were Josiah and Mary Hutchinson, who had nine chil- dren-James H., Walter S., Margaret, Matilda, Nancy, Jennie, Minnie, Olive (deceased), and Martha. Our subject was married January 1, 1868, to Ellen Dudley, daughter of John and Sarah Dudley, the father a native of New Hampshire, and the mother of Vermont. They were the parents of four children, our subject's wife being the youngest. The children were : Francis, Myron, Mary, who was a twin sister of Myron, but now deceased, and Ellen.
Of our subject and his wife's children, the following gives their names and the date of their birth: James A., born Feb- ary 21, 1869; Mary E., August 3, 1870; William W., March 11, 1872; Maggie E., January 18, 1875; Louis E., October 31, 1877; Walter F., November 5, 1879; Frederick E., February 7, 1881; Arthur R., March 30, 1883; and Olive I., May 2, 1888.
Mr. Crom was eight years of age when his parents came to Harrison County. and his father located in Magnolia Township, where he purchased a squatter's claim, which proved to be seminary land, and was afterwards turned over to the State, after which he pre-empted it and paid $1.25 per acre for it, and lived upon it for twenty eight years. When our sub- ject was twenty-two years of age he bought one hundred and twenty acres in. Magnolia Township and put substantial improvements upon the same, and after one year sold the same for $600, it having cost him just one-half that amount. He leased land one season in this county and then went toMissouri, rented one year, came back to Harrison County and rented three years, and then purchased eighty acres in Allen Township, which cost him $5.75 per
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acre. He made good improvements on this place, remained there seven years, then sold out and bought a hundred and twenty-acre tract of partly improved land in the same township, upon which he lived three years, disposed of the same, and rented land for two years near Dunlap. We next find him on the place he now oc- cupies, consisting of one hundred and sixty acres, which was partly improved at the time he purchased it. The first few years of his residence in the county people had to go to Council Bluffs for their mail and marketing.
Politically, Mr. Crom votes with the Republican party.
AMES N. McMANIMIE, a repre- sentative farmer of section 4, Cin- cinnati Township, came to Harrison County, in the spring of 1855, with his mother, and her family, together with the grandfather, who entered land in St. John's Township. The grandfather was James G. Davis. Our subject remained at home with his mother and grandfather until January 23, 1862, when he enlisted in Company H, Fifteenth Iowa Infantry, when he was only a little past fifteen years of age. He went South and was in the following engagements-battle of Shiloh, of April 6 and 7, 1862, the siege of Corinth, Miss., the battle of Bolivar, Tenn., Iuka, Miss., battle of Corinth, Oc- tober 3-4, 1862; Waterford, Miss., No- vember 29, 1862, Lafayette, Tenn., in 1863; Richmond, La., in January, 1863; siege of Vicksburg, Oak Ridge, Monroe, La., August 29, 1863; Meridian, Miss., in February, 1864; Big Shanty, Ga., June 10, 1864; Noonday Creek, Ga., June 15,
1864; Bushy Mountain, Ga., June 19, 1864; Kenesaw Mountain, June 27, 1864 ; and at the same place July 1-2 of the same year; advanced on Atlanta July 20, 1864; charge of Atlanta July 1, 1864, and the battle of Atlanta one day later; Ezra Church July 28, 1864; before Atlanta August 3 to 16; Atlanta & Montgomery Railroad August 28, 1864; Jonesboro, Ga., August 31, to September 1; Flint Creek, Ga., September 1, 1864; Lovejoy Station September 2, 1864; Fairburn, Ga., Octo- ber 2, 1864; Snake Creek Gap, Ga., Octo- ber 15, 1864; Savannah, Ga., December 21, 1864; Gardner's Corner, S. C., Janu- ary 14, 1865; River Bridge, S. C., Febru- ary 2, 1865; Big Salkahatchie Swamp, S. C., February 3, 1865; North Edisto River S. C., February 9, 1865; Columbia, S. C., February 17, 1865; Cheraw, S. C., March 3, 1865; Fayetteville, N. C., March 11, 1865; Bentonville, N. C., March 20-21, 1865; Raleigh, N. C., April 13, 1865.
Our subject participated in the Grand Review at Washington, which was by all odds the greatest military gathering which ever passed by a given point, at any one place in the world, that history gives us any record of. Our subject was dis- charged at Louisuille, Ky., July 24, 1865. He passed through thirty-seven battles and skirmishes and lost his right eye. Considering the age at which this man en- tered the service and the campaigns and engagements he took part in, his war rec- ord is scarcely excelled, if equalled, in the annals of the Iowa pages of the Amer- ican Conflict.
Our subject was born in Putnam County, Ind., September 12, 1846, and is the son of George and Emily (Davis) Mc- Manimie, and when nine years of age his grandparents and his mother, with her family of three sons and one daugh-
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ter, started for Harrison County, Iowa, taking boat at Beardstown, Ill, via St. Louis, there took steamboat for Omaha. On the way from St. Louis to Council Bluffs, the grandmother and our subject's sister died with the cholera. The mother married Martin Sutton and they now live in Springfield, Ill.
Our subject was married in Pottawatta- mie County, Iowa. March 6, 1866, to Miss Mary L. Parker, the daughter of Joseph and Mary (Smith) Parker, and they are the parents of six children-Minnie B., Emma E., Harvey O., Laura S., James T. and Bertha. Minnie is the wife of M. J. Breen, and lives at Rock Rapids, Iowa.
Mrs. McManimie was born in Jersey County, Ill., December 12, 1846. Her parents came to Pottawattamie County, Iowa, in 1860. She died May 3, 1891, and. is buried in Calhoun Cemetery. She was a member of the Woman's Relief Corps at Modale; her husband being a member of Boyd Post, No. 397, G. A. R. at Modale.
Politically our subject is a stanch Re- publican, "voting as he shot!"
Since our subject's return from the army he has remained in Harrison County, except four or five months spent in Wyoming. He has improved two farms in Cincinnati Township, ; his present place contains two hundred and twenty-five acres. He is a thorough-going farmer and a highly-respected citizen of the progres- sive type. In 1890 he was appointed as one of the enumerators for the United States Census Bureau.
G EORGE F. TUFLY, a highly re- spected farmer residing on section 11, of Raglan Township, came to Harrison County, in the spring of 1858.
He first located in Clay Township, where his parents settled. The father bought a farm of one hundred and sixty acres and our subject remained at home until he be- came of age, after which he worked out by . the month for about four years, and then bought a team and rented land for eight years, at the end of which time he bought the place he now occupies. The same consisted of eighty acres of partly im- proved land. Here he built a house 14×24 feet, with a wing 12x16 feet one-story and a half high. He also built good stables, cribs and granary. He provided his place with an orchard of one hundred fruit trees, besides shade and ornamental trees. His place now comprises one hundred and twenty acres ; sixty acres of which are under the plow, the remainder being in pasture and meadow land. It may be said in this connection, that all our subject possesses of this world's goods, he has made in Harrison County.
To acquaint the reader with our sub- ject's earlier career let it be said he was born in Washington County, Mo., in the month of August, 1850. His parents are Josiah and Margaret D. Tufly, natives of Switzerland and Germany respectively. They reared a family, of the following chil- dren : Mary M., George F. John C., Lucy M., Louisa E., Josiah H., William D., (deceased) ; Sophia J., Sarah A., (de- ceased) ; and Peter, deceased).
George F., lived in Missouri until eight years of age, at which time his parents moved to Harrison County. He was uni- ted in marriage in August, 1886, to Minnie S. Curtiss, the daughter of Arthur W., and Mary Curtiss, natives of New York, whose family consisted of Sophia, Mary S., Arthur W., Minnie S., and Flora R.
Our subject and his wife are the parents of two children : Arthur J., born October
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19, 1887; Mary D., August 1, 1889. Mr. Tufly is a member of the Ancient Order of United Workmen, and politically, affiliates with the Farmers' Alliance and Industrial Union party. Both he and his estimable wife are members of the Christian Church.
W ILLIAM MAULE, who resides on section 15, Raglan Township, was born in Harrison County, April 27, 1860. He is the son of Donald and Chris- tina Maule, natives of Scotland, who had a family of eleven children named as fol- lows: James M., Mary J., David, George E., William, Joseph D., Emma E., Charles R., Albert H., Maggie A., (de- ceased), and Minnie M., (twins).
Our subject remained with his parents until he arrived at the years of his major- ity, and the following two seasons he herded cattle and then bought a quarter-section of wild land, upon which he made some improvements, and three years later sold and bought the place he now occupies, which consisted of forty acres of partly improved land. He now has substantial buildings, fine shade trees and three hun- dred apple trees, His present farm con- sists of one hundred and fifty-six acres, one hundred of which are under the plow. All he possesses, he has made by his own exertions.
Lenora Love, daughter of Nathan and Licena Love, became his wife in March, 1886. Her parents were natives of North Carolina, and their children were Frances E., Mary J., deceased; Joel P., Elkanah, Marion S., deceased; and Lenora.
born September 1, 1839; and William A., born July 3, 1891.
In the summer of 1880, our subject made a trip to Montana. He stopped at Butte City, where he engaged as a clerk in a wholesale grocery store, remaining five months. He was taken sick and returned to Iowa. In 1882, he went to Nebraska, and took a homestead, but only remained a short time, and let the homestead go back.
Mrs. Maule was a school teacher, hav- ing taught nine terms in Lucas County, Iowa and ten terms in Harrison County.
AVID MORROW, a farmer living on section 16, Raglan Township, came to Harrison County in the spring of 1856, in company with his parents, who located in the above town- ship. He remained at home until he had reached the years of his majority. His advantges for obtaining an education were very limited. His father helped him pro- cure a quarter-section of land, which he plowed up, and erected a house, barn and granary upon. He also dug wells and provided the same with a windmill, and set out an orchard of one hundred apple trees, together with shade and ornamental trees; the present farm contains two hun- dred and forty acres, fifty acres of which are plow land, while the balance is in meadow and pasture, all surrounded with a good fence.
Mr. Morrow was born in Canada, is the son of Patrick and Elizabeth Morrow, na- tives of Ireland, whose ten children were as follows: Jane, William, Elizabeth, Anna, Hugh; Mary, David, Joseph, de-
Our subject and his wife have been blessed by three children: Maggie M., born October 19, 1887; Lois P., deceased, , ceased ; David, Salathiel and Matilda.
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Our subject remained in Canada until seven years of age, and then came to Har- rison County, Iowa. He was married April 2, 1877, to Catharine, daughter of Hugh and Ann Stewart, natives of Ire- land, who had ten children, named as fol- lows: John (deceased), Mary A., Catha- rine, Daniel, James T., Sarah A., Peter P., Rose (deceased), Jennie and Anna.
Mr. and Mrs. Morrow are the parents of four children, as follows: Lewis H., born January 30, 1878; Mary G., April 19, 1880; Jane R., May 21, 1882; Anna T., December 29, 1885. Mrs. Morrow passed from the scenes of this life, November 27, 1890. The family belong to the Roman Catholic Church.
F6 RANK GILSON, whose farm home is pleasantly situated in the north east quarter of section 19, and with- in the borders of that charming forest land known as Six-mile Grove in Cass Township, came to Harrison County in company with his mother twenty-two years ago, arriving August 29, 1869, and at first settled in-Union Township, where his mother's sister lived. They remained however, the following winter at the home of L. M. Evans, during which time he attended school, and in the early spring engaged to work on a farm at $7 per month. His mother was again married and he called their place home. His next work was for John Jewell, for which he received $8 per month. He worked on a farm the next three years for E. R. Peck- enpaugh, who paid him $10 and $15 per month. He was virtually his own man after he was thirteen years of age, and im- proved every opportunity to attend school
between the various times he was en- gaged at farm labor. For two years he rented a farm of John Knauss, who gave him one-half of the grain in the field. This was during the years 1876-77. The next year he rented of B. R. Collins, giv- ing him one-third of the crop.
In 1879, he purchased forty acres of wild land of the railroad company, for which he paid $8 per acre. He at once began to improve this by breaking, and building a house; also a barn. He culti- vated this land until the autumn of 1885, and sold the same at $22.50 per acre, and bought the place he now occupies, pay- ing $26 per acre. This farm contains one hundred and fifty-three acres, is under a high state of cultivation and is provided with a good house, fine barn and bearing orchard.
Our subject was born in Porter Town- ship, Cass County, Mich., September 8, 1857. His parents were William and Sarah J. (Bolton) Gilson. Mr. and Mrs. William Gilson were the parents of four children, of whom our subject was the second child. The father was born in New York State, while the mother was born in Michigan.
Mr. Gilson was married March 12, 1876, to Millie V. Peckenpaugh, daughter of E. R. and Caroline Peckenpaugh, who were the parents of twelve children, who were born and died in the following order -Rice, Lorinda, Joseph, and Martin deceased; Anderville P .; Harvey V .; Willis W .; William J .; Stephen A .; Ber- tha C .; Millie V .; Frank C. Mrs. Gilson was the eleventh child, and was born Sep- tember 1, 1859. Her father was born in Indiana, and her mother in Illinois. Mr. and Mrs. Gilson are the parents of five children-Mabel L., born March 20, 1877; Caroline J., September 24, 1878; Gladys
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