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JAMES B. STRANG, post-office, Gregg, one of the most successful farmers, stock-raisers, and stock-feeders in Johnson county; was born in Winchester county, New York, August 26, 1829; son of John and Mary Strang. His early education was received in the common schools, though he went two years to Somer's Academy, New York. He then clerked one year in a mercantile house in Peakskill. He then followed farming two years, clearing $1,800, which was the foundation upon which he erected his subsequent fortune. He was married to Miss Julia Bailey, March 23, 1853, daughter of Lyman Bailey, of Putman county, New York. They have nine children living: Laura, Mary F., Clar- ence, Medora, Julia, Ella and Willie (twins), Ward, and Belle. In 1854 he came to Iowa, and settled in this county, where he has since resided. By intelligent energy, and judicious management, he has become the possessor of 1112 acres of land, mostly in section 19, which is one of the finest estates in the county. The soil is rich and inexhaustible, and the improvements are first-class, having about ten miles of good fence on his farm. Commencing as he he did a poor boy, Mr Strang has reason to be proud of his financial achievements. In the fall of 1877 he was elected a member of the board of supervisors of this county, which office he now holds, having been re-elected in 1880. In all his official acts nothing can be said to his discredit. Mr. Strang is seeding his farm preparatory to turning his attention exclusively to stock- grazing, having at present 140 head of cattle, 400 sheep, 80 head of hogs, and a choice lot of horses. His farm lies along the Iowairiver, making it second to none in the county for that purpose. A democrat in politics.
JESSE K. STRAWBRIDGE, a resident of Graham township; was born April 28, 1819, in York county, Pennsylvania. He left there in 1830, and settled near Richmond, Indiana, in Wayne county. March 29, 1842, he left Richmond, and landed in Cincinnati April 9, 1842, by stage-coach and steamboat; he landed in Muscatine, Iowa, and then by stage to Iowa City. He spent five years in Richmond, Indiana, learning the saddlers
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and harness trade. He was married September 21, 1840, to Miss Eliza- beth J. Horner, of Richmond, Indiana. They have nine children: Martha, wife of Gilbert Irish; Josephine, Joseph F., Robert, Oscar, Margretta, Ada, Thomas, and Frank. He was president of the first school board in Graham township. In politics he is a democrat and voted against the prohibitory constitutional amendment.
HENRY STROHM, a nurseryman, residing on Summit street in Iowa City; was born February 4, 1821, in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania. He went to Montgomery county, Ohio, and near Dayton married Miss Kauffman, December 29, 1847. They have four sons and two daughters: John W., Benjamin F., Henry C., Charles B., Alice May, and Carrie Ella. He came to Iowa City in 1851, and began the nursery business, and thirty-one years' experience has proved to him that Iowa is a good state · for fruits of all kinds, if properly attended and planted in proper season in suitable ground. He keeps in his nursery all kinds of fruit, shade, and ornamenal trees. He is a republican in politics; has held several offices of honor, profit and trust in the city, township, and county ; was a member of the board of supervisors for three years; township trustee several terms and a member of the city council. He has been treasurer of the State Horticultural Society for eight years, and of the Eastern Horticultural Society since its organization.
JOHN T. STRUBLE, of Scott township, section 7, post-office, Iowa City; was born in Sussex county, New Jersey, November 5, 1831. His occupation is farming, and breeding of fine farm horse; his father once owned the farm upon which was fought the battle of Laurel Hill, Virginia; in 1863 he moved from Tunnel Hill, Virginia, to Knox county, Ohio, and in March 28, 1852, settled in Iowa City. He was married September 28, 1854, to Miss Virginia Snyder, of Iowa City; his father was an old set- tler and architect of the State University building. They have the fol- lowing named children: Nora, wife of Horace Denton, of Cass county, Iowa; Sarah, Harlen, Elmer, Linton, Luella, George and John. Mr. Stru- ble had the contract for building the present Court House of Johnson county ; he also helped build the St. Agatha Seminary, first designed for a hotel; he also worked on the Catholic and Congregational Churches of Iowa City. In 1856 he bought the farm upon which he now resides.
DR. DAVID STEWART, a resident of Penn township, post-office North Liberty; was born in Huntington county, Pennsylvania, March 24, 1831. He left there in 1855, and settled in Stevenson county, Illinois, and in 1860 came to North Liberty, Penn township. He graduated at Jeffer- son College, Pennsylvania, in 1854, and began the practice of medicine in Pennsylvania; in that year practiced in Stevenson county, Illinois, and con- tinued the practice of medicine until he entered the army, as captain of company E, Twenty-eighth Iowa Infantry; he was made assistant surgeon
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of the Twenty-eight Infantry, December 27, 1862. He was married in 1855 to Miss Winafred Duff. They have seven children: Mary, Wina- fred, Charles, William, Emma, Alex., Georgia. He is a republican in politics, and holds an appointment as United States guager at the Iowa Distillery.
ROBERT STEWART, was born February 14, 1798, in Huntington county, Pennsylvania, died in Johnson county, Iowa, January, 1880. Mr. Stewart was of that stalwart Scotch-Irish stock that early sought the hill country and the mountains of the Atlantic colonies, and that gave to this Republic Andrew Jackson, Jno. C. Calhoun and a score of other states- men and soldiers who bore the stamp of their stout blood in their faces. His father lived to be ninety years old and he passed four score. Fifty-four years ago he married Miss Ann T. Macdonald; to them were born nine children: Jonathan, of Rock City, Ill., James, dead, David, of Johnson county, Macdonald, of Johnson county, Charles M., of Pennsylvania, Sarah A., Mrs. Osborne, of Wisconsin, Mary A., Mrs. John Cunningham, of Nebraska, Nancy J., Mrs. James Bain, of Johnson county, and John T., of this city. He came to this county in 1865, and had the warm hearted ways of old fashioned hospitality.
MARIA E. STUART, a resident of Iowa City, and the only surviv- ing member of the family of Peter Roberts, one of the early and promi- nent settlers in Iowa City. She was born December 31, 1850, on College street, in Iowa City. October 4, 1870, she was united in the bonds of holy matrimony to Captain James E. Stuart. Peter Roberts, father of Mrs. Stuart, was born April 30, 1809, in Bucks county, Pennsylvania. He settled in Iowa City May 10, 1841. He was married October 27, 1846, to Mrs. Maria B. Cox. They had two children, William P., who died April 19, 1856 and Maria E., wife of Captain Stuart. Mrs. Rob- erts died October 20, 1871, and Mr. Roberts died July 10, 1878. He took an interest in public affairs, and was a member of the first city council in 1853, from the third ward, and in 1857, from the second ward, and 1877- 78, represented the second ward in the city council.
H. S. SUTLIFF, farmer, Cedar township, post-office, Solon; was born in Trumbull county, Ohio, September 10, 1834, and is a son of Allen C. and Nancy Sutliff, who came to this county in December, 1838, they being natives of Connecticut, and took up a claim where the subject of this sketch now resides, where he has spent his life, and now owns 287 acres of land, all under cultivation but a few acres of timber. He was married January 26, 1856, to Caroline E. Langdon, daughter of Luther Langdon of this township, she being born in Connecticut. By this union they have three children: Flora V., Minnie and Harvey S. Mr. Sutliff is a member of the Masonic fraternity.
FRANK SULEK, a farmer, residing in Jefferson township, post-office, Shueyville; was born August 10, 1843, in Bohemia, Austria; came to
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America January 24, 1854. He was married January 1, 1868, to Miss Anna Beck, of Shueyville. This union is blessed with seven children: Beatrice, Uldrich, Fredrick, Edward, Liberty, Antonia and Frank. Mr.S. is a democrat in ¡politics; was justice of the peace one term, is now the treasurer of the school board; has filled the office of township clerk and assessor. He is badly crippled in the hand, caused by getting it caught in a threshing machine. He has a fine farm; school house is situated on his farm; also the Sulek grave-yard.
MRS. SARAH B. SWAFFORD. The subject of this sketch was born February 9, 1821, in the town of Eaton, Ohio. She died June, 1875; she came to Iowa City in 1842 and became the wife of L. S. Swafford, in August, 1843. She joined the Baptist Church at fourteen years of age, and in whose communion she remained until death. For thirty-three years residence in Johnson county, her life unfolds upon the fond memory of a bereaved circle an unbroken example of an affectionate and faithful devo- tion to all the home duties and tender responsibilities which grew up around her.
CALEB J. SWEET, farmer and stock-raiser, post-office, Lone Tree; was born in Champaign county, Ohio, February 12, 1834. He is a son of David and Lydia Sweet, who came to this county in 1838 and settled, where Mrs. Sweet and the subject of our sketch still lives in section 6, Fremont township. Mr. Sweet dying September 19, 1844; he was born January 27, 1801, and Mrs. Sweet was born January 1, 1801. Mrs. Sweet was left with five small children to make a living for, and farm not paid for, but she finished paying it off and still enjoys good health, sight and memory. The subject of this sketch went to California in 1853 across the plains, and followed mining until 1859, when he returned by way of the Isthmus and New York. He enlisted in company G, Second Iowa Cavalry, at Davenport, in a Muscatine company, and served three years and one month; he was taken prisoner at Booneville, Miss., and was in the prisons at Mobile, Alabama, Macon, Georgia, and also at Libby prison, where he was paroled after being a prisoner four months and twenty days. Since the war he has been paying his attention to farming and raising stock, and now owns 620 acres of land; he feeds considerable stock every year. He has never married.
WILLIAM T. SWEET, farmer, post-office, Lone Tree; was born in Champaign county, Ohio, March 29, 1832, and is a son of David and Lydia Sweet, who came to Johnson county in 1838. Here the subject of our sketch spent his boyhood days, and in 1852 he and Thomas Miller went to California, driving an ox team, they being six months on the road. He remained there seventeen years, and followed mining and farming, freighting, etc. In 1869 he returned to Johnson county, where he has since resided, and now owns 160 acres of land. He was married May 25, 1875, to Miss Mary E. Hillhouse, a native of Illinois, she being a
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daughter of John C. Hillhouse. They have four children: David, born April 2, 1876; William C., born February 5, 1878; Louisa A., born June 5, 1880, and Joshua F., born May 5, 1882. Mr. Sweet is a member of the A. F. & A. M. No. 4, Iowa City, also of the A. O. U. W
BENJAMIN SWISHER, farmer, post-office, Shueyville, Jefferson township; was born in Pickaway county, Ohio, April 2, 1817. Was the son of John and Catharine Swisher. His father died when he was four years old, and his mother when he was seven. He then lived with his uncle until he was twenty-one. In 1840 he came to Iowa, and staid in Van Buren county until in March, 1841, when he came to this county. He first lived in what is now Monroe township. In 1844 he moved to Jeffer- son township, where he now resides in section seven, where he owns 437 acres of land. May 16, 1841, he was married to Mrs. Elizabeth Whitmore, formerly from Newport, Rhode Island, it being the first wed- ding in this township. To them were born eight children, six of whom are living: Lovell A., in Iowa City Bank; Abe E., attorney, Iowa City; John P., attorney, Cedar Rapids; Benjamin F., farmer, Cherokee county; Catharine Ballard, Stephen A., insurance agent, Iowa City. His wife died August 9, 1875. Mr. Swisher is now the oldest resident of this town- ship, having lived here forty-one years. His son-in-law, Mr. Ballard, is farming his place on shares. Mr. Swisher makes his home with him.
JOSHUA P. SWITZER, farmer, section 10, post-office, Riverside; was born in Carroll county, Maryland, July 29, 1853, and came to Johnson county when four years of age; is a son of John Switzer, now deceased, who was born in Berks county, Pennsylvania, in 1806; was married in 1837 to Miss Elizabeth Wolfe, who is still living. Ten children were born to them, as follows: James L., Susan R., Jacob C., Sarah E., Abraham F., John D., Charles E., Margaret E., Joshua P., and Joseph E. They came to this county and settled in Liberty township in 1857, where, June 2, 1860, Mrs. Switzer died. Mr. Switzer was a republican.
A. C. SWOFFORD, attorney at law, Big Grove township, post-office, Solon; was born August 2, 1846, in Cedar township, Johnson county. He was married July 22, 1869, to Miss Dora A. Haight, of Jesup, Buchanan county, Iowa. By this union they had four children: Laura P., Julia I., Charles B., Colvin G .; Laura P. and Charles G .; this wife is dead. He was married again September 16, 1878, to Miss Bertha M. Tentler, of Solon, Iowa; one child by this marriage: Maynard. He is a member of the Masonic Lodge, No. 385, of Solon; he was assessor of Cedar township five years, also justice of the peace. He is a greenbacker in politics, and was their candidate for auditor in 1877; he was master of the Grange Lodge in Cedar township. He is a promising young lawyer of no ordinary ability.
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C. G. SWOFFORD, a resident of Solon; engaged in general merchan- dise trade; was born January 9, 1850, in Johnson county, Iowa, and is the senior member of the firm of Swofford Bros., doing business in Solon. He was married October 10, 1872, to Miss Martha C. Hemmingsway, of Cedar township. They have five children: Harley E., dead; Alice L., Myrtle M., Claude C., and Hazel. He is a member of the Masonic Lodge, No. 388, at Solon. Is a republican in politics, and voted against the amendment. He was one of the first students at the Iowa State Agri- cultural College, did not graduate on account of his health. Was one year in the drug trade in Solon; three years in the insurance business, before he was in the drug trade; he was treasurer of school district number two, Cedar township for several years; he was appointed postmaster of Solon, July 18, 1882. T. G. Swofford, the junior member of the firm, was born August 12, 1852. Is a republican in politics; voted for the amendment. Is a member of Wayfaring Lodge, No. 385, A. F. and A. M., Solon, and he is deputy postmaster.
JAMES D. TEMPLIN; was born in 1818, died August 25, 1882. He was married November 11, 1840, to Miss Jane Stevenson, of Ross county, Ohio. They had four children: John W., living in Washington county, Iowa, an attorney at law; Rebecca E., now Mrs. Ogden, living in Iowa City; Mary P., living in Iowa City, and James S., living near Iowa City. Came to Iowa City in 1845, and preached about one year; went away in 1846; read law in Muscatine, and was admitted to practice, and settled in Iowa City in 1848. He was a candidate on the democratic ticket in 1856 for State Senator, and the democrat candidate for Congress in 1864. He was a Methodist, and for several years preached for that denomination; he was admitted to the Supreme Court of United States, December 3, 1866, on motion of Judge James Grant. He was a graduate of Oxford Univer- sity, and was a teacher in that institution for a time. He is the author of the abridgment of the Iowa decisions issued in 1874. A democrat in politics; his wife died January 5, 1878.
FRANK TANNER, a resident of Iowa City, a blacksmith by trade and senior member of the firm of Tanner & Baker, wholesale and retail dealers in hardware and dealers in agricultural implements, wagons and buggies; was born August 19, 1850, in New York city, came to Johnson county and Iowa City in 1863. He was married October 8, 1871, to Miss Belle Dimmick, of Lincoln township, Johnson county, Iowa. They have five children: John F., Rosalee, Samuel H., Belle and Mariania. He is a member of the A. O. U. W., L. of H., Royal Arcanum, and V. A. S. of Iowa City. A democrat in politics; was elected a member of the city council from the fifth ward in 1880 and 1882, and elected member of the board of supervisors of Johnson county in 1882. He began business at Nos. 110 and 112 Washington street, March, 1882, as successor to F. C. Dooley, as hardware merchant.
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PERRY TANTLINGER, the owner and proprietor of the village of Tiffin, in Clear Creek township. This village was laid out on the farm owned by Rolla Johnson and was sold in 1866 by him to Mr. Tantlinger, being a farm of 200 acres, 16 acres have been sold off in town lots, eleven families live in the village, they have one church, the Christian; a dry goods and grocery store, one physician, two blacksmith shops, one hotel and a grain elevator. The village has not been so prosperous since the farm upon which it is located passed into the hands of Mr. Tantlinger. He had some trouble with the railroad company and with the people and refused to sell any more ground, and is not now selling lots, the conse- quences are the town ceased to grow in business enterprise. Mr. Tant- linger was born March 12, 1814, in Summerset county, Pennsylvania. He came to Johnson county in 1844, and has accumulated a considerable quantity of solid wealth. He was formerly a democrat, but since the Abe Lincoln campaign in 1860, he has been a republican.
WILLIAM H. TAYLOR, a resident of Iowa City, and merchant tailor, doing business at No. 15 on Clinton street, near the post-office; was born March 16, 1829, in Cheshire, England, came to America June 22, 1856, and to Iowa City, July 8, 1856, landed in Boston. He was married November 9, 1854, at Manchester, England, to Miss Jane E. Shelden. They have four children: Joseph E., Jennie, William H. and Carrie A. He is a member of the Masonic bodies of Iowa City, and A. O. U. W. No. 4. Democrat in politics.
MATHEW TEN EICK, was born in Monmouth county, New Jersey, August 12, 1805. He was a farmer by occupation and the owner of 298 acres of land, all under cultivation. At the age of ten years his parents moved to Montgomery county, Ohio, where he received a common school education. He was married to Salome Cole, daughter of John and Hannah Cole, June 19, 1832. Mrs. TenEick is of German and Irish ancestry. They had ten children, eight of whom are living; their names are: William P., Tunis C., Mary H., Auslom, John F., Cornelia, Mathew; Tilly S. and Salome are deceased. Mr. Ten Eick built the first house that was ever built in Iowa City, in July, 1839. Their daughter, Mary, was the first child born in Iowa City.
WILLIAM P. TEN EICK, Scott township, post-office, Iowa City; is a son of Mathew Ten Eick, and was born in Montgomery county, Ohio, May 26, 1833. He settled with his parents in Johnson county July 9, 1839. His occupation is farming. He was married October 20, 1858, to Miss Margaret Hunter, a native of Ohio; she was born July 20, 1844. They have a family of nine children, five of whom are still living: Char- lotte, Frank, Eddie, Matthew and Joseph; those dead are: Rubin, Mary, Maggie and Josie. He is the owner of 177 acres of land, all under culti- vation, in section 16, Scott township.
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WALTER TERRELL, a retired citizen, living in East Lucas town- ship, at Terrell's mill, on the Iowa river, north of Iowa City, was born April 14, 1805, in Caroline county, Virginia. He was educated at the public schools in Virginia. He was the owner of Terrell's mill, built by him in 1843. The main building is 22x40, three stories high, the other additions have been built since. It has three run of four-foot burrs, and three run of three and a half foot burrs. All the machinery in this mill is of the very latest improvement. Mr. Terrell sold this property to Jacob Sam in 1867, and after a few years it passed into other hands, and at the time the bank washed out in October, 1881, it was owned by Jacob J. Deitz and Joseph Hemmer of Iowa City. The dam is perfectly sound and in fair condition. The cut in the bank draws the water away from the mill, and business at the mill was suspended. The mill was sold on a foreclos- ure of a mortgage, and bought by Mrs. and Miss Terrell for $4,000. Before the washout the parties that owned the mill asked $32,000 for it and the water privileges. It was the first dam across the Iowa river. The privilege of erecting a mill and using water power was granted Mr. Terrell by the territorial legislature of Iowa. He was married in 1850 to Miss M. T. Crew of Mt. Pleasant, Iowa. They had one child, a daugh- ter, Mary A. His wife died August 13, 1853, and May 4, 1854, he was married to Miss J. T. Crew of Mt. Pleasant, Iowa. He is independent in politics, never held an office in his life, and has lived the life of a private citizen in the extreme sense of the word. He was engaged in civil engin- eering in the early part of his business life on a great many railroads in Indiana and Illinois. This brief sketch hardly does justice to Mr. Terrell, but his extreme modesty came near preventing us getting as much for this history as we have. He is one of the very earliest pioneer settlers in Johnson county, and made some of the finest public improvements by way of providing a good mill for the public.
LEE THARPE, a farmer, residing in Lincoln township, post-office, Downey; was born October 22, 1835, in Pike county, Ohio. He settled in Linn county, Iowa, in 1857, and in Johnson county in 1866. He was married in October, 1853, to Miss Sarah E. Wells of Louisa county, Iowa. The have six children: Martha J., wife of William Miller; Mary L., Orvie A., Roenna, Frederick Geddis and William Roy. Mr. Tharpe is a republican in politics.
JOHN H. THOMPSON, a farmer and stock-raiser, residing in Gra- ham township, on section 25, post-office address, Oasis; was born in 1831 in Harrison county, Ohio; he is a son of John C. and Rebecca Thompson; came to Iowa and settled in Graham township in 1852. He was married in 1857 to Miss Henrietta Perrin, daughter of Peter and Elizabeth Perrin of Morgan county, Ohio. They have seven children.
REV. HENRY M. THOMPSON, the resident pastor of the First Baptist Church in Iowa City, was born November 26, 1854, in Windsor
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Vermont. In 1878 he graduated from Cobley University at Waterville, Maine, and completed his studies at the Baptist Theological Seminary in Newton Center, Massachusetts. He preached one year and a half for a Baptist congregation at St. Marys, Ohio, previous to coming to Iowa City in November, 1881. He was married November 3, 1880. His efforts in Iowa City seems to be crowned with success, and he appears as quite a favorite among his people, as well as with the general public.
GRAHAM THORN, a farmer, residing in Monroe township, post- office, Gregg; was born March 27, 1824, in Putnam county, New York. He settled in Johnson county in 1866; he lived eleven years in DuPage county, Illinois. He was married in September, 1851, to Miss Laura M. Baley, of Putnam county, New York; she died May 30, 1878, leaving four children: Emma, Eva, Alma, Rufus C., Emma, is the wife of Wil- son Blaine, county superintendent of public schools; Eva, wife of John Hemstead; Alma, wife of Levi Anderson. Mr. Thorn is a democrat in politics; he has held the office of postmaster three years for the Gregg post-office, a justice of the peace four years, clerk of the school board two years, township clerk for eight years, which office he now holds.
CAPT. J. A. L. TICE, a resident of Iowa City; was born September 29, 1829, in Lebanon county, Pennsylvania. A coach-maker by trade. During the war he raised company G, Seventeenth Regiment Pennsyl- vania Volunteer Infantry, and was elected its captain; he raised this com- pany and traveled forty-six miles in forty-two hours, after getting authority. He was married May 13, 1852, to Miss Maria Eckel, of Fremont, Penn- sylvania. This union is blessed with two children: Ellen, wife of J. H. Keating, of Sedalia, Missouri, and Mary C., wife of Robert M. Combe, of Oxford, Iowa. Member of the Presbyterian Church of Iowa City. A member of the Masonic bodies of Iowa City, and a charter member of the Iowa Legion of Honor, and charter member of the German A. O. U. W. of Iowa City, and now deputy supreme president for the State of Iowa of the United Order of Honor. A republican in politics; was appointed city treasurer March 25, 1872, to fill the vacancy occurring by the death of John Renick. He was United State store-keeper at the Iowa City Alcohol Works for three years.
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