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WILLIAM V. ORR, post-office address, Iowa City; was born in Ken- tucky, Nov. 15, 1813, and his occupation is that of a farmer and stock raiser and is the owner of 225 acres of good land. When he was a child his parents moved to Fayette county, Ohio, where he lived until he was twenty years of age; he then went to Elkhart, Indiana, and from there to Summerset county, Pennsylvania, and from there came to Iowa City, April 16, 1859, and the July following moved to his present farm. The year 1843, he was married to Miss Boyd, his wife died in 1845, and in 1848 he married Mrs. Epasin, her maiden name was Porbugh, a native of Pennsylvania. They have six children: Cyrus, Mary E., William H., Matilda R., Emma E. and Herman, the latter dying at four months of age. He is a member of the Lutheran Church.
MAX OTTO, a resident of Iowa City and editor of the Weekly Post, the German paper of Johnson county; was born Dec. 25, 1842, near Duesseldorf-on-the-Rhine, Germany; was educated in the Gymnasium School of Duesseldorf. Came to America, June, 1866, landing iu New York City, and remained there until August, when he settled in Iowa City and began teaching school in a two story brick building on the corner of Brown and Johnson streets. The building was burned down in 1869. A new building was erected and school carried on by Mr. Otto, until 1871. The building was sold in 1872. He was married April 4, 1869, to Miss Katie McInnery of Iowa City, a teacher in the school above mentioned for six years. They have six children: Agnes, Clemmie, May, Ralph Joseph and Lucia. Mr. Otto was at one time engaged in a music store of his own, from 1872 to 1878, and then began teaching music only until 1881, when he established the Post, the German paper, and he is still its editor. He was connected with the Milwaukee, Chicago and Cincinnati German papers, furnishing editorals and correspondence Mr. Otto is a democrat in politics.
ASBY D. PACKARD, the first settler in Hardin township, post-office, Windham; was born in Mahoning county, Ohio, July 22, 1816. His father, Garret Packard, was a native of Vermont, and one of the pioneers of Ohio, and was a soldier in the war of 1812, and died November 20, 1820, Mrs. Packard (Ellenor Britton) surviving him ten years. The subject of our sketch then went to live with his uncle, Joseph H. Coult, and lived with him six years. He then went to Detroit, and then to Mar- shall county, Indiana, and worked in a saw-mill, and about April 1, 1838, started west, and came to what is now Johnson county, Iowa, and took
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up the claim he now lives on in June of that year. He made his home with Jonathan Harris the first summer in what is now Liberty township, and in October he went to David Switzer's, and during the winter he went to the Mississippi river, and cut cord-wood, and returned in the spring, and staid with Switzer, except what little he worked on his claim, and in the fall returned to the river, and chopped wood again, always walking back and forth, packing his knapsack. In the spring of 1841 he returned and then remained on his claim, " keeping bach'" until he was married April 29, 1845, to Nancy Montgommery, a native of Washington county, Pennsylvania. She came to Clear Creek township with her father, James, in 1841. They then settled down to the hardships of every day pioneer life, Mr. Packard breaking prairie for the early settlers, and kept adding more land to his possessions as his means would permit. He also built a water saw-mill in 1845, and in 1855 and '56 built a steam mill, and also a flour-mill in connection with it, run by the same engine, this being a great help to the settlers. Both mills being burned in 1864, since then he has been engaged in farming and raising stock, and owns a fine farm of 425 acres. Mrs. Packard died August 26, 1874, leaving seven children, viz: Winfield S., now living in Pottawattamie county; Nancy A., Char- lotte, Helen A., Iola J., Amelia A., and Asby D .; Helen A. dying Febru- ary 5, 1878, and Asby D., March 5, 1878.
G. H. PACKARD, farmer, Hardin township, post-office, Windham; was born in Trumbull county, Ohio, December 23, 1820, and came to this county in 1840 and bought a claim, where he now resides. In the spring of 1843 he went to Wisconsin and remained there five years, and followed lead mining. He was married at White Oak Springs, Wisconsin, Febru- ary 22, 1848, to Miss Mary T. Easley, a native of Illinois; he then returned to his farm the same spring and built a house, and has since lived there, and been engaged in farming and raising stock, and owns 388 acres of fine land. They have five children living, viz .: Mary E., now Mrs. Wm. Andrew, in Nebraska; Lorenzo D., married December 30, 1874, to Miss Mary C. Cross, native of Iowa county; Millington A., married to James A. Dansdill, December 24, 1872; Alice M., now Mrs. D. A. Selby, in Nebraska; Clara M., now Mrs. Dansdill, in Washington township. Both Mr. and Mrs. Packard, are members of the Evangelical Church.
EUGENE PAINE, a resident of Iowa City; wholesale and retail coal dealer, doing business on the corner of Van Buren and Burlington streets, near B., C. R. & N.R. R .; was born March 6, 1839, in Orange county, Vermont; came to Johnson county, in July, 1868. He was married July 4, 1873, to Miss Olivia Brockway, of Randolph, Vermont. They have one child: Charles O. Democrat in politics. He has a coal house 16x100 feet, near the railroad track.
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STEPHEN E. PAINE, a resident of Iowa City, and book-keeper for M. T. Close & Co., at the oil mill; was born March 8, 1830. He was married April 8, 1852, to Miss Mary E. Fellows, of Mechanicsville, New York. They have three children: Nellie, Mary, and Katie. He came to Iowa City in 1857, and was superintendent of the gas works of Iowa City for sixteen years; he began clerking for M. T. Close & Co. in 1874. He is a member of the Congregational Church of Iowa City. Republican in politics; has held many offices of honor, profit and trust; was mayor of Iowa City, 1871-72-73; served as alderman from the fourth ward in 1863, '64-69; he was a member of the Iowa City school board, and its president in 1864.
CHARLES H. PALMER, Jr., liveryman, Solon; was born in Solon June 29, 1859. He is a son of C. H. and Cynthia (nee Love) Palmer, both natives of Windham county, Connecticut. They were married April 10, 1842, and worked in the woolen and cotton factories until 1847, when they moved to Ohio, and emigrated to Johnson county, Iowa, in 1850, and in 1852-53 built the old Palmer House, which they kept until 1870, Mr. Palmer dying November 30, 1878, leaving two sons, Alonzo and Charles H., the subject of our sketch, who has been engaged in the livery busi- ness since he was fifteen years of age. He now owns the stone livery stable at Solon, and is doing a good business. He was married May 10 1882, to Mary Kintz, daughter of John Kintz of Solon.
PHILIP PALMER, farmer, Cedar township, post-office, Solon; was born in Scotland July, 1838. At the age of fifteen years he went Canada with his parents, and followed farming and stock-raising near Ontario, and came to the United States in 1877, and now lives in Cedar township, where he farms and raises stock, and owns a half interest in a herd of Short-horns. He was married December 24, 1870, to Janet Taylor, a native of Scotland. The have one boy, David.
JOHN PARSONS, a farmer and stock-raiser, residing in Graham township, post-office address, Morse; was born in 1834, in Summerset- shire, England; a son of George and Betty Parsons; came to America in 1858, and lived ten years in New York State, and went back to England, and remained there six months, and during the time married Miss Jennie Ham. They have seven children. . They came to America, and finally settled in Graham township, Johnson county, Iowa, in 1869. The family attends the Methodist Church.
JOHN PARROTT, residence Scott township, post-office, Iowa City; was born in Washington county, Maryland, February 26, 1810. His occupation is farming, and owns 160 acres of improved land; he settled in Johnson county in 1839, and located a claim in section nine, and has resided there continually ever since. He was married in Indiana, June 24, 1835, to Miss Savannah II. King, a native of Pennsylvania. They have a
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family of eleven children, four of whom are living: Mary, wife of Albert Wescott; Francis A., Emma P., wife of James A. Pinney, and John J .; those dead are: George and David W., who was a member of company D, Twenty-fourth Iowa Regiment; died June 16, 1868. Mr. Parrott and wife were members of the first M. E. Church that was ever organized in Johnson county, in the fall of 1839. Mr. Parrott and wife are of the pioneer families of Johnson county. Though death has visited this family seven times and taken from them their loved ones, they express themselves as feeling that old father time has dealt kindly with them, and that they are quietly enjoying life, and tolerable good health for their age.
BRUCE PATTERSON, farmer, a resident of Washington township, section 24, post-office, Frank Pierce; was born December 8, 1842, near Utica, Licking county, Ohio: came to Iowa and settled with his parents in Washington township, Johnson county, in October, 1847. He was married December 25, 1870, to Miss Jennie Van Meter. This union is blessed with two children: Ray and Ney. He is a democrat in politics; his party has honored him with the office of member of the board of sup- ervisor for two terms, and he was elected chairman of the board January, 1883, and he has proved faithful to every trust confided to his care; he has proved himself a successful politician, as well as a successful farmer. He owns a well kept farm with plenty of good stock, and comfortably situated in life.
HON. LEMUEL B. PATTERSON, a practiceing attorney in Iowa City, in partnership with Levi Robinson, on Clinton street, since 1860, near post-office, the oldest law firm in the State of Iowa: was born Sep- tember 12, 1824, in Rushville, Indiania: the spring of 1841 found him in Iowa City: he was admitted to practice law in 1846. A democrat in politics: was city attorney in 1868-70, and again in 1874-76: a member of the city council in 1857-59. He was librarian of Iowa territory for three years, and while in that office drew up the first homestead law passed in Iowa: he won the railroad bond suit in the supreme court of the United States, case of Lucius Clark vs. Iowa City, reported in the 21st Wallace, U. S. S. C. R., page 20. He was married May 10, 1851, to Miss Jane Hazard; she died in 1856 in Iowa City, of cholera; also his little boy and hired girl of the same disease. He has always taken a lively interest in all public interest of Iowa City, and has accumulated some valuable city property.
LIEUTENANT-COLONEL JOHN PATTEE, a resident of Iowa City; was born July 23, 1820. His father was a Methodist missionary, and preached in Canada, where he resided when the subject of this sketch was born: he soon moved back to the States. Col. Pattee commanded Cos. I, K, L, and M, soldiers from Iowa stationed at forts Randall, Sulley, and Sioux City, during the war. He settled in Iowa City in 1851, and worked at the carpenter trade. He was married August 23, 1855, to
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Lidia Lanning of Iowa City, who died February 20, 1869. They had one child, the wife of Samuel Fanning. He was married July 7, 1861, to Miss Pricilla Clark, sister of the Hon. Ezekiel Clark, of Iowa City. They are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Iowa City. Col. Pattee was auditor of state by appointment in 1855, and was elected in 1856. He is a republican in politics. He was appointed a special agent under the interior department, to secure an agreement with the Sioux Indians to let the Ponca Indians return to their old reservation. He was the first librarian of the State Historical Society.
J. G. PATTON, farmer, post-office River Junction; was born in Fay- ette county, Pennsylvania, October 30, 1840. At the age of ten he moved to Steubenville, Ohio, with his father, who was a printer and one of the old Jacksonian men. He published the " Genius of Liberty," at Uniontown, Pennsylvania, and claimed to be first man that pushed Jackson's name for president, being a personal friend of his. In 1854, he came to Iowa City, where he lived until his death, November, 1861. The subject of this sketch learned the printer's trade in the old " Capital Reporter " office, now the " State Press," commencing when eighteen years of age. In September, 1861, he enlisted in company F, First Iowa cavalry, and spent three years and a half in the army. Since returning from the army he has paid his attention to farming, and now owns 140 acres of land. He was married December 19, 1864, to Miss Effie Dodder, a native of New Jersey. They have six children, viz., William C., Nellie, Fannie, Frank M., Charles J., and Effie. Mr. Patton spent two years in Kansas and was constable and deputy sheriff in Iowa City under M. Cavanaugh two years.
HON. GEORGE PAUL, a farmer and stock-raiser, residing in Clear Creek township, post-office address, Iowa City; was born December 25, 1824, in Petersburg, Pennsylvania; came to Iowa (then called the Black Hawk purchase) in 1836, and learned the printer's trade at Fort Madison with J. G. Edwards, who owned and started the Burlington Hawkeye. He came to Johnson county in 1841, and was foreman of the Iowa Capi- ital Reporter, and was one of the proprietors from 1847 to 1852. He was state printer in 1850, and sheriff of Johnson county in 1846, also member of the board of supervisors of Johnson county for four years, from 1863 to 1867, and in the Iowa legislature a member from Johnson county for the years 1871-73-74-78-79. During his service in 1878 he was success- ful in securing an annual endowment for the State University of $20,000. Repeated efforts had been made to secure this endowment, followed by repeated failure. The Hon. M. Bloom rendered valuable service with Mr. Paul in securing this endowment. He has many warm friends in both political parties, and is well and favorably known throughout the state. He is a democrat in politics, of the Andrew Jackson school, and well posted on all political questions. He was postmaster of Iowa City
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under Pierce's administration. He was married December 24, 1843, to Miss Vienna Winchester, of Iowa City. They have five children: George H., of Sturgis City, Dakota; Charles R., Gilman F., Jennie, wife of Henry Lee of Denver, Colorado; and Katie, who died in 1869. He was among the first Masons and Odd Fellows in those organizations in Iowa City.
JOSEPH W. PAUBA, a resident of Solon, Big Grove township; was born November 25, 1844, in Bohemia; settled in Johnson county in 1870, and worked at the harness trade; worked at that ten years. He has been in the grain trade five years; built the grain elevator at Solon, a frame building three stories high, in May, 1882, with a capacity of 30,000 bush- els. He has an average of 350 cars of grain each year since he has been in the grain trade. Ships mostly to Chicago, Illinois. He was married August 5, 1872, to Miss Mary Bardosh of Linn county, Iowa. They have three children: Joseph, Dellie, and Frank. He is a member of the Masonic Lodge, No. 385, of Solon, and is a member of the town council of Solon. He deals in agricultural implements and farm machinery of all kinds; buys all kinds of produce, etc.
EVAN PAYN, farmer, Solon; was born in Licking county, Ohio, December 20, 1812, where he spent his early life and followed farming. In the fall of 1845 he emigrated to Iowa, and settled in Big Grove town- ship, section 22, and has since lived here. He now owns 233 acres of well-improved land, which he has improved himself. He was married February 9, 1837, to Ruth Hall, a native of Ohio. They have eight chil- dren, viz: William H., Rachel A., now Mrs. Wheeler, Mary J., Francis M., Esther E., now Mrs. Ulum; Margaret E., now Mrs. Rimion; Henry C., and Samuel W. He is a member of the Christian Church.
E. H. PEFFER, a farmer residing in Penn township, post-office, North Liberty; was born March 22, 1818, in Cumberland county, Penn- sylvania. He is a hatter by trade, learned and worked at his trade in Trumbull county, Ohio. He was married to Miss Liddie A. Brown, of Trumbull county, Ohio, in 1841. They had the following named chil- dren: Sylvester W., William H., John W. and Samuel J. His wife died Sept. 28, 1858. He settled in Penn township, Johnson county, Iowa, in 1866. He married Mrs. Annie Cramer, Feb. 19, 1867. He is engaged in raising and manufacturing of sorghum and has been very successful.
JAMES PETERS, farmer and stock raiser, Cedar township, post-office, Morse; was born in Tipperary, Ireland, in 1832. Son of John and Johanna Peters. He came to New York, in 1852, and then moved to Ohio where he lived about eighteen months, when he came to Cedar township, and settled on a farm, and in 1862 was married to Miss Mary Ryan, daughter of Michael and Mary Ryan of Cedar township. They have seven children living, four boys and three girls. He is a member of the Catholic Church
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and a democrat in politics. Mr. Peter owns one of the largest farms in Cedar township.
JOHN PETERS, a farmer and stock raiser, residing in Graham town- ship, post-office address, Morse; was born in 1822, in Tipperary county, Ireland, a son ot John and Johanna Peters. Came to America in 1848, and lived in New York, until 1850, when he moved to Ohio, and lived there until he moved to Iowa City, in 1855. He lived in Iowa City until 1858, when he moved to Cedar county, Iowa, and lived there until 1864, when he settled in Graham township. He was married in 1855 to Miss Catharine Butler of Tipperary county, Ireland. They have seven children. The family are members of the Roman Catholic Church. A demcrat in politics.
JOSEPH PITLIK, harness maker, post-office, Solon; was born in Bohemia, Dec. 25, 1859, and came to America when seven years of age with his parents, Albert and Barbara Pitlik, and settled in Solon, Johnson county. In Oct. 1874, he went to learn the harness making trade at Car- roll, Carroll county, Iowa, and worked there four years and a half. He then worked in Cedar Rapids two years, and in February, 1881, he started a shop of his own in Solon and keeps a good stock on hand. In March, 1882, he was elected marshal of Solon and made a good and effi- cient officer.
JOHN A. PICKERING, a resident of Iowa City, and proprietor of China Hall, the only store in Iowa City dealing exclusively in this line of goods, and occupies rooms in the Odd Fellows building, on the corner of Dubuque and College street; was born March 2, 1855, in Warwickshire, England; came to America in 1856, landed in New York city, and to Iowa City in 1857, and bought the China Hall store and became successor to C. M. Reno in 1877; he now occupies two rooms 25x80 feet in the Odd Fellow's building, on the corner of College and Dubuque streets, No. 122, 129 College, and 132 Dubuque street; he is a wholesale and retail dealer and importer of china, glass and fancy goods, toys, cutlery, silver-ware, chandeliers, brackets, lamps and trimmings, of all kinds. China Hall was established in 1866.
SAMUEL J. PLYMESSER, a resident of Tiffin, Clear Creek town- ship; was born October 10, 1838, in Cumberland county, Pennsylvania; his father came to Wayne county, Ohio, and lived their eight years, and when Samuel was about eleven years of age his parents moved to Johnson county, Iowa, and settled here in 1849; in 1874 he began busines in Tiffin, lowa, as a grain merchant, selling coal, lumber and pumps; he was station agent for the C., R. I. & P. R. R. for six years. He was married January 1, 1866, to Miss Mary J. Moreland; she died February 10, 1882. This union was blessed with three children: Ira E., John S., and Garfield A. A republican in politics, and always takes a lively interest in political affairs.
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He formed a partnership in 1875 with J. M. Douglass in the grain busi- ness, which partnership still continues. He was a soldier in the Federal army in the Sixth Iowa Infantry, and was wounded in the left knee, at Missionary Ridge; he received a sun-stroke at Jackson, [Mississippi, in July, 1863, and a second sun-stroke in June, 1864; he went into the army as a private, and was promoted to first lieutenant, commanding the com- pany; he went into the service in July, 1861, and served until July, 1865; he is still slightly crippled in the knee. He is one of Tiffin's most active and enterprising citizens.
SAMUEL PLYMESSER; born November 27, 1811, Lebanon county, Pennsylvania; moved to Smithville, Ohio, in 1841, and settled in Johnson county, Iowa, in 1849; entered the land upon which he now resides, Madi- son township; his post-office address in North Liberty. He married Miss Abigail Weltmore, of Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, April 15, 1834. They have five children living: Samuel J., Isaiah, Simeon, Willis and Amanda. A republican in politics. Has a fine comfortable home, and lives well; has never sought an office, and for that reason is a happy and contented man.
H. F. POGGENPOHL, a resident of Liberty township, and the patentee of the " Excelsior Bee-hive," patented June 5, 1877; post-office, Iowa City; was born January 30, 1825, in Germany; came to America in 1846; came to Iowa City in 1852. He was married in January, 1849, to Miss Mary Hergenpern, of Germany: she died October 24, 1882. They have three children: Henry, Frank, and Amelia. He is a member of the Catholic Church. A democrat in politics. He has had upwards of forty- six years experience in bee-keeping, and has paid close attention to the improvement of bee-hives in every detail; the points of excellence in his bee-hives are the hollow walls and the perfect system of ventilation of the brood chamber that allows all foul air to escape, and preventing the mois- ture from the bees, respiration congealing and forming frost that always proves fatal to the bees when it melts and sours the honey. The bee busi- ness has become a very extensive enterprise in Johnson county. It should be made a criminal offense for men engaged in the bee culture to feed glucose to their bees, and no doubt will be a subject of legislation on that point.
THOMAS POHLER, a resident of Iowa City, doing business on South Dubuque street, number 213; was born September 18, 1849, in Baden, Germany; came to America in 1852. He is a member of the St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church of Iowa City. A democrat in politics. He is a partner with his brother-in-law, Mr. Enig, in the fine two story brick building, on Iowa Avenue, near the Universalist Church.
WM. H. POOLE, jeweler, post-office, Oxford; was born in Delaware county, Ohio, August 24, 1850, and came to Iowa with his parents,
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Thomas and Elizabeth Poole, in 1854, and settled in Johnson county, where he has since resided, and was raised on a farm until the age of twenty-one, when he went to learn the jewelers' trade at Iowa City, and in October, 1873, he went into business for himself in Oxford. He was married June 6, 1873, to Miss Jennie Rawlings, a daughter of Rev. G. W. Rawlings of this town. They have been blessed with three children: Clarence E., Frankie E., and William H., Jr. He is the manager of the Iowa Tele- phone and Telegraph Company, at Oxford; he is also a member of Canopy Lodge, No. 290, A. F. & A. M.
JOHN W. PORTER. The subject of this sketch was born April 26, 1839, in Wooster, Wayne county, Ohio, died in Iowa City, Dec. 7, 1882. He was educated at Bethany, West Virginia, and was there at the break- ing out of the late civil war. He came to Iowa City and entered the State University of Iowa. He enlisted July 26, 1862, in company F, 22d regiment Iowa volunteer infantry, and was commissioned first lieutenant Sept. 10, 1862, and was promoted to adjutant of the regiment, Dec, 20, 1862. He resigned and came home in February, 1863. His father died in 1863, and Mr. P. successfully conducted that business until 1870. He formed a partnership with Capt. J. A. L. Tice, March 18, 1868, in the lumber business; in 1874 bought out Tice, and went in with P. Musser, and in 1878 bought out Mr. Musser, and conducted the business until his death. In all his business enterprises he was a success. A republican in politics, and always took a lively interest in all public matters of import- ance to that party. He was a member of the school board for ten years, and its treasurer for four years. He was a director of the State Agricul- tural Society for two years, and its president in 1881 and 1882. Was president of the National Association of Lumber Dealers in 1878 and 1879, and was a director at the time of his death. Was president of the Inter- State Association of the Board of Agriculture, organized Nov. 9, 1881, in Chicago, Ill. He was a director in the Iowa City National Bank, and a member of the board of trade of Iowa City. He was a faithful and con- sistent member of the Christian Church of Iowa City. He was married March 4, 1863, to Miss Louisa Morseman, daughter of Dr. M. J. Morse- man, of Iowa City. They have three children living: Charles M., Nel- lie M. and Edgar K. Mrs. Porter is a member of the Christian Church of Iowa City.
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