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William Peck, one of the most thriving and prosperous farmers of Fenton town- ship, is the son of Joseph and Elenor Peck, natives of St. Lawrence Co., N. Y. He was born Oct. 21, 1840, and came to Dane Co., Wis., with his parents in 1845. In 1849 his father went by team to California and returned in 1852, hav- ing heard from his family but once dur- ing that time. In 1860 Mr. Peck started ont in the world for himself, and worked on a farm for $13 per month. He en- listed. Ang. 11, 1862, in company K, 2d regiment, Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry. His company was sent to Washington, and transferred to battery A, Ist Wiscon- sin Artillery, and were stationed during the winter of 1862, in Fort Cass, on Gen. Lee's farm. In the spring of 1863 they removed to Fort Ellsworth, Va., and re- mained there five months, then went to Fort Worth ( near Fairfax cemetery).
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thence to Alexandria, Va. In the fall of 1864 they were on a march in the Shen- andoah Valley, with Gen. Sheridan; they then returned to Alexandria. Mr. Peck was wounded in this march, by the recoil of a gun, which broke three of his ribs. He was discharged from service April 27, 1865, and returned to his home in Jeffer- son Co., Wis. In 1866 he went to Dane Co., Wis., and remained there until 1872, when he removed with his family to Kos- suth Co., Iowa, and took up a homestead on section 26, township 97, range 30, Fen- ton township. His present farm has 130 acres under cultivation. He has a good house and barn on the same. He was twice married. His first wife was Louis Tubbs, to whom he was married Oct. 23, 1861, and by whom he had three children -Ella, Alma and Edith. Mr. Peck mar- ried Hannalı Moore, Feb. 8, 1870, daugh- ter of John and Loretta Moore, natives of Ohio. Mrs. Peck was born Oct. 21, 1852. They have four children-Alida T., Stella, Mabel and William J. Mr. Peck is a member of the Algona Lodge of I. O. O. F., also of the Grange, No. 19. He votes the republican ticket, and is en- gaged to some extent in stock raising.
Francis L. Ranney is the son of Philo and Sally Ranney, natives of New York. He was born Dec. 16, 1846, and lived with his parents until his eighteenth year. On Feb. 21, 1865, he enlisted in company G, 49th Wisconsin Volunteers, for one year. His regiment was stationed in Rolla, Mo., where they did provost duty for five months. They then removed to Schofield Barracks, No. 1, in St. Louis, and did provost duty there until Nov. 8, 1865, when he was discharged and sent
home. He was married Jan. 1, 1868, to Hannah, daughter of Joseph and Elenor Peck. Mrs. Ranney was born Aug. 19, 1849. In the fall of 1872, he came with his family to Kossuth Co., Iowa, and set- tled ou section 35, township 97, range 30, in Fenton township, college land grant. He paid $5.40 per acre, cash. Since then he has bought eighty acres in Lott's Creek township. He has about 100 acres under plow, with good house and im- provements on the same. They have eight children-Frank E., Mary Jane, John W., Orvis J., Hulda E., Joseph P., Josephine E. and Daniel E. Mr. Ranney was a member of the Grange for a num- ber of years. They are both members of the M. E. Church. He votes the repub- lican ticket, and is a strong prohibitionist.
A. J. Bush, an energetic farmer of Fenton township, was born in Lewis Co., N. Y., July 18, 1829. He is the son of Luther and Unice Bush, natives of the eastern States. He remained at home with his parents until the spring of 1852, when he went to California, overland, with four yoke of oxen. He left biome May 1, and got to his journey's end the last of August. While there he worked in the mines, and in 1857 he returned to New York city on the steamboat Arrazebee from San Francisco to the Isthmus, thence on the Tennessee to New York city, where he landed in December, 1857, where he took the train and came to Sterling, Ill., and worked at his trade, as mason and plasterer, until the spring of 1864. He then went to Montana with a team with some other emigrants, and while crossing Powder river valley, they were attacked by the Sioux and Cheyenne Indians, and
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had to fight for one whole day, losing five | Christi bay, Texas, where he remained men (killed); the Indians lost thirteen. While in Montana he worked in the mines. In 1868 he returned to Sterling, Ill., where he followed raising and moving build- ings until 1872, when he came to Kossuth Co., Iowa, and purchased the southeast quarter of section 35, township 97 range 27, college land grant in Fenton township, for which he paid $5.40 per acre, cash. He has eighty acres under cultivation. He has a good two story frame building on the same, also a good barn. He has a grove of nine acres of timber around his house and barn. Mr. Bush is a single man, never having been married. Politi- cally he is a greenbacker.
John T. Davis is a son of Charles and Martha Davis, natives of Westchester Co., N. Y. He was born Jan. 9, 1813. At the age of eighteen he learned the car- penter trade and followed it in New York city until 1854, when he went to Califor- nia. There he worked at his trade and followed mining until 1860. He returned to New York city in 1861, and enlisted as carpenter's mate on the bark Arthur, Uni- ted States Navy, stationed in Corpus
until some time after the capture of New Orleans. He was sent by steamboat to Boston, on account of sore eyes to a hos- pital. He was discharged from the United States service Oct. 16, 1862. He worked in the quartermaster department in Hil- ton Ilead, thence to Charleston, S. C., thence to New York, where he followed his trade until the fall of 1878, when he came with his family to Algona, Kossuth Co., Iowa. In the spring of 1879 he lo- cated on his homestead of eighty acres on section 22, township 97, range 30, in Fenton township and has it all cultivated, and a good house and barn on same. He has been twice married. Ilis first mar- riage was in 1841. His second and pres- ent wife is Anna, daughter of John C. and Lucy Burgess, natives of England. They were married Ang. 21, 1868. Mrs. Davis was born in England, Aug. 17, 1840. He had five children by his first wife, who are all dead except Charles A., who is married. He is a member of the Grange, No. 17, Fenton township. Mrs. Davis belongs to the Episcopal Church. Mr. Davis is a republican.
CHAPTER XIX.
GREENWOOD TOWNSHIP.
This is the largest township in Kos- suth county, containing six congressional townships in the northwest corner of the county. The East Fork of the DesMoines
river traverses the two lower townships in a southeasterly direction, and along this stream is nearly all the settlement in Greenwood. The land is rich and fertile,
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however, and the country has a great fu- ture before it.
The first attempt at any settlement was made in March, 1865, by D. D. Wadsworth and L. K. Garfield.
Capt. Wadsworth, on receiving his dis- charge from the army, where he had been doing valiant service, came to this place and took up a claim of 160 acres, eighty on section 22 and eighty on section 27. He was a native of Wisconsin, from which State he had volunteered. He remained here about six years and a half when he removed to Grand Island, Neb.
Dr. L. K. Garfield located upon 160 acres on section 21, in township 98, range 29, and remained about five and a half years, and is now a practicing physician at Algona.
In April, 1865, A. P. Buker made his appearance and made a settlement on sec- tion 20. Here he built him a sod house, and commenced to open up a farm. Mr. Buker still occupies the old homestead and is the oldest resident of the town- ship.
With Mr. Buker, came John Hawkes, who settled down upon a farm of 160 acres, on section 20. He remained for about ten or twelve years, when he re- moved to Dakota.
James Dundas and his family became settlers, at what is called Armstrong's grove, in 1865, where they are living at the present time.
Section 21 received a settler in May, 1865, in the person of George O. Austin, a native of New York State. He imme- diately took up a homestead on which he is living yet.
George O. Austin was born in Dela- ware Co., N. Y., March 13, 1827. He lived in his childhood's home until twen- ty-six years of age. In 1854 he removed to Illinois, locating on a farm in Buffalo Grove, Ogle county. In 1865 he came to Kossuth county and took a homestead of 160 acres on section 21, Greenwood town- ship. He purchased a half section of col- lege land in the fall of 1865, but after- wards sold it. Mr. Austin has been mar- ried twice. In November, 1852, he was united in marriage with Bertha, danghter of Samuel and Jane (Buck) Sands, of Hancock, Delaware Co., N. Y. The re- sult of this union was six children, four of whom are living-Hathaway, Oscar, Louise and Audell. Mrs. Austin died in July, 1875. She was a member of the M. E. Church. Mr. Austin was married on the 29th of January, 1881, to Lucy D. Shield, daughter of S. S. N. and Clarissa A. (Day) Fuller, of New York. They have one child-George. Mr. Austin is a republican. He has held many local offices of trust in this township.
Oscar Austin, son of George O. and Bertha A. Austin, was born in Ogle Co., Ill., Dec. 16, 1857. In 1865 he came with his parents to Iowa, locating in Green- wood township, Kossuth county. In 1879 he went to Dakota, remaining there until 1883. He then returned to his home in Iowa, where he raises cattle, hogs and horses for market. Mr. Austin was mar- ried March 2, 1879, to Adelaide, daughter of Nun and Diadama Carpenter, of Kos- suth county.
About the Ist of June Joseph Burt, a Mr. Hallett and G. W. Kinney came to the township and made settlements.
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Joseph Burt located in the western part of the township, where he now lives.
Mr. Hallett remained in this vicinity until 1873, when he left the county, going to Minnesota.
G. W. Kinney located on section 15, where he took up a homestead of 160 acres. He is now a resident of the grow- ing town of Bancroft.
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Samuel Sands was another settler of 1865. He located on section 35, where he took a homestead of 160 acres. He is still a resident of the township.
Samuel Sands, son of Samuel and Arte- mesia Sands, was born in Hancock, Dela- ware Co., N. Y., Aug. 30, 1830. When seven years of age he removed with his parents to Broome Co., N. Y. In 1842 they removed to Illinois and purchased a farm in Boone county, where Mr. Sands engaged in farming until 1863, also study- ing veterinary surgery and training horses. He then removed to Mitchell Co., Iowa, where he practiced his profession. In 1865 he came to Kossuth county, taking a homestead of 160 acres on section 35, township 98, range 29, Greenwood town- ship. He has since purchased forty acres on section 35, adjoining his original farm on the south. Mr. Sands was married Dec. 10, 1857, to Harriet Tyler, daughter of John and Parmelia 'Tyler, of Delaware Co., N. Y. They have had eight chil- dren, seven of whom are living-Wallace B., Paul, Clausen, Mark, Ruth, Ezra and John. Mr. Sands is a republican in poli- tics.
During the winter of 1868 Samuel Sanda, one of the residents of Green- wood, was employed in Algona. He re- ceived a letter from his family that they
were out of provisions, but a terrible "blizzard" having just commenced that day, it was impossible for him to get to them with anything. In the meantime his wife at home, watching for the coming of her husband, espied a deer in the gath- ering gloom of the winter's twilight, hud- dling in the door yard, where it had sought shelter from the chilling blast. Knowing that she must do something, and looking on the animal as a providential deliverance from the pangs of hunger, soon unloosed two powerful bull-dogs that she had, and urged them on to the chase. They soon overtook the poor, he- numbed deer, and while they held it she ran out into the night and storm, and with a common butcher knife cut its throat. She then, assisted by her chil- dren, took the carcass to the house on a hand-sled, and for the balance of the time during which the storm lasted feasted royally on venison.
In September, 1865, Thorn Connell, a native of Vermont, took a claim of 160 acres on section 24, where the town of Bancroft now stands. He lived here about twelve years, when he emigrated to Oregon.
Jolin Carroll came to this township in the fall of 1865. He camped here nntil he could get his house built, and here, while the family were living out of doors, as one might say, was born the first child that saw the light of day, in the town- ship. Mr. Carroll died a few years ago, but his family are still residents of the old homestead.
William Gibbon was a settler of July, 1865. lie was an Englishman and settled upon section 27. About twelve years ago
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he sold out and removed to the Pacific slope, and is now a resident of Oregon.
llis son, Joseph Gibbon, at the same time took up a homestead on section 26, on which he lived until the departure of his father, when he packed up and went with him.
Greenwood township was organized Jan. 4, 1869, and the first election was held in the October following. As to who were the first officers, the records are silent, and the proper data for getting them is inaccessible.
The present officers are as follows: R. I. Brayton, Nils Martin and George O. Austin, trustees; J. B. Johnson, clerk ; W. W. Alcorn, assessor; George O. Aus- tin, G. V. Davis and Charles A. Molinder, justices; William Ormiston, E. Tallman, Charles Olson and M. Olson, road super- visors, and S. P. Haglund, constable. The two other constables elected failed to qualify.
The first death was that of Abner, son of Abel and Mary Buker, who died in November, 1867, and was buried in a private burial place.
The second death was that of Cyrus O., son of Cyrus and Mary Hawks,on the 12th of January, 1871. He, also, was buried on a private burying ground, there being no cemetery in the township at that time.
The first marriage was that which united the destinies of John Dundas and Jane R., daughter of William and Jane Gibbon. Seymour Snyder performed the ceremony, which took place upon the 7th of April, 1868.
The first birth was that of a son of John Carroll, born in the fall of 1865.
The first grist mill was a plantation mill run by hand, and was taken into the township by Dr. L. K. Garfield, when he went there in 1865. This he run for a while, and then purchased a larger and better one, with a windmill attachment. This was in use largely by the settlers during the famine year of 1868.
Dr. Garfield also enjoys the credit of having built the first frame building in the township, a neat dwelling for his family, erected in 1869.
The first school in the township was taught by Abel P. Baker, in the winter of 1865. This was in a sod house, built on the side of a hill at Greenwood Cen- ter. The house, which was about 12x16 feet inside, was furnished with hlocks and slabs for seats, where some fourteen scholars found resting places. There was no money on hand to build a school house, so the citizens made a bee and put up this place, that the educational interests of the growing generation might not be neglected. It was mainly through the instrumentality of Dr. L. K. Garfield, Abel Buker and George O. Austin that this school was established, and to them be- longs the credit.
The second school house was built on section 36, in 1866. This was also a sod house, and the first teacher was Marilla Connell. It is told for a fact that the door was used for a blackboard.
The postoffice at Seneca was established about 1870, and E. Woodworth was com- missioned as first postmaster. Ile was succeeded by Mr. Califf, William Ormiston and Charles Gray. The latter had charge of it for about six years, when in Febru-
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ary, 1882, he handed it over to W. W. Alcorn, who is the present incumbent.
W. W. Alcorn was born in Warren Co., Penn., Dec. 10, 1845. He lived there until he was twenty-one years old, then he went to Elkhart Co., Ind. He was there engaged in farming for twelve years, with the exception of one year spent in Missouri. In 1879 he came to Iowa, and in 1882 purchased 160 acres of land on section 17, township 98, range 30, in Greenwood township, Kossuth county. Mr. Alcorn was married Dec. 10, 1868, to Lydia, daughter of F. D. Maxon, of Jack- son, Mich. They had four children, three of whom are living-Edith M., Minnie G. and Hubert Roy. Mrs. Alcorn died Nov. 16, 1879. Mr. Alcorn was married Oct. 2, 1880, to Ida, daugliter of C. H. and F. A. Gray. They are the parents of two children-Florence F. and Harry E. Mr. Alcorn is engaged in raising sheep and farming. He is assessor of the township, also postmaster at Seneca, having received his appointment Feb. 2, 1881. He is a republican in politics.
A Good Templars' lodge was organized in January, 1880, and meetings were held for a time at the Carroll school house at Seneca, but the members lived too far apart and the charter was suspended and the lodge died out.
Seneca Cemetery was established by the township in October, 1876. It is lo. cated near the school house in sub-district No. 7.
Robert I. Brayton, son of William and Elizabeth Brayton, was born, in 1836, in Winnebago Co., Ill. When quite young his parents moved to La Porte Co., Ind. He lived there until twenty-three years
of age, then went to Kankakee Co., Ill., purchasing a farm and remaining one year. In 1861 he enlisted in company K, 4th Illinois Volunteer Cavalry, and served three years. He participated in the bat- tles of Fort Henry, Fort Donelson, Pitts- burg Landing, Shiloh, siege of Corinth and many others of minor note. He was wounded in the hand while ont sconting. He was discharged at Springfield, Ill., Nov. 3, 1864, and returned to his home in La Porte, Ind., in time to vote for Abra- ham Lincoln the second time. In 1865 Mr. Brayton returned to Illinois and shortly after came to Iowa, locating on section 8, Greenwood township, Kossuth county, where he now has 360 acres of land. He was married Sept. 3, 1857, to Abigail, daugliter of Aaron and Phæbe, Foster, of LaPorte Ind. Mr. and Mrs. Brayton have had ten children, six of whom are living-Walter E., Phæbe E., Effie F., Cora, Alta and Ray Irwin. Mr. and Mrs. Brayton are members of the Bap- tist Church. Mr. Brayton is a republican in politics. He was county supervisor six years; he has also been justice of the peace, township trustee, school director and road supervisor.
Charles O. Fish, son of Thomas J. and Lavina Fislı, was born in Essex Co., N. Y., Nov. 16, 1840. In 1866 he went to Olm- sted Co., Minn., where he remained six months. He then moved to Chicago, Ill., accepting the position of overseer on a farm sixteen miles out of Chicago. In 1868 he came to Kossuth Co., Iowa, tak- ing a homestead of 160 acres on section 8, in Greenwood township. He has since purchased eighty additional acres on sec- tion 8, and eighty acres on section 16.
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When Mr. Fish moved on his farm he built a sod house. This was done by cut- ting timber with a crotch in the top for corner posts, then laying poles across and up and down from the cornice to the cones, for rafters. Covering this with willow brush and hay, then with alternate layers of clay and sod. The floors were made of boards and the walls plastered. This made a very warm and comfortable honse. Mr. Fish was married in 1864, to Lucy M. Hare, of Essex Co., N. Y. They have seven children -Meldrid, Sa- rah and Sylvia, twins; Edith, Willie, Wal- ter and Emma Isadore. Mr. Fish is a dem- ocrat, and has held the office of township trustee.
Rev. O. Littlefield, the youngest of nine children, was born Dec. 23, 1802, at Cole- rain, Mass. His parents were of Eng- lish descent, his father being a Baptist minister. The family removed to Ellis- burg, Jefferson Co., N. Y., where his fa- ther died, Aug. 28, 1805, leaving his in- fant son to the care of a good mother. He always spoke of his mother as being a very pious woman, and felt himself greatly indebted to her for her prayers, pious instruction and godly example. His whole life showed that his moral charac- ter had been well laid in his early years. His boyhood life was spent on a farm in manual labor. He entered Belleville Acad- emy, New York, in 1828, and passed his collegiate course at Union College, Sche- nectady, N. Y., in 1832. He began his Christian life in 1829, advocating Univer- salism, but still felt it his duty to love and serve God. It was after one of those great revivals that swept through New York, led by C. G. Finney, Burchard and
others, that he visited his home at Ellis- burg, which was being visited by a power- ful revival. It was seeing the great change in his old companions that led him to consider his own condition as a sinner and yield his heart to Christ with a fixed resolution to serve the Lord. He started west in 1832 on the Erie canal, but was stopped at Rochester by the freez- ing of the canal. Here he spent the win- ter in teaching, and here, after a long and thorough study of the subject of baptism, he joined the Presbyterian Church, in care of Dr. Wisner. In the spring of 1833 he resumed his journey west to Steubenville, Ohio, where, like many other young men before entering a profession, he spent some years in teaching. He thus strength- ened what he had acquired, and fitted himself for a more noble work. In 1835 he entered the Theological Seminary at Allegheny City, Penn. He was licensed to preach by the Presbytery in 1837. In 1837 he visited his brother in Greenfield, La Grange Co., Ind., and spent five weeks, then he proceeded on his journey west to Galena, Ill., where he spent a year preach- ing at Sand Prairie, Apple River and Craig's Point. In 1838 he returned to In- diana, and was ordained and set apart to the Gospel . ministry by the St. Joseph Presbytery, April 4, 1839,at White Pigeon, Mich. Then he preached at Algansee, Sturgis Prairie, Mich .; Pretty Prairie and Angola, Ind. Here he suffered a year and a half with inflammation of the eyes and was three months blind. Though sight was at length restored he never fully recovered. In 1841 he visited Steu- benville, Ohio, traveled and preached in various places, assisting in protracted
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meetings. During this time he preached or attended meetings nearly every night, and frequently during the day. On the 3d of March, 1843, he bade adieu to his friends in Indiana and went west with a view of settling there. In November, 1843, he visited Jackson Co., Iowa, spending two weeks. For the next six years he preached in Daviess Co., Ind .; Apple River, Elizabeth and Lancaster, Grant Co., Wis. His last field in Wis- consin was at Blake Prairie, Beetown and Patch Grove. In the fall of 1849 he visited friends in Indiana, and returned in November and removed to Garnavillo, Clayton Co., Iowa. In Garnavillo he preached to a Congregational Church and joined that Church. In November, 1851, he visited Indiana and was married to Sarah A. Watkins, of Orange, Noble Co., Ind. After visiting a few days they re- turned west, arriving in Garnavillo, De- cember 5. He preached in Garnavillo, Elkader and Farmersburg three years. In 1854 he was colporteur for the American Tract Society. In May, 1855, he removed to Bradford, Chickasaw Co., Iowa, where he organized a Church, and preached at Charles City and Floyd Center, in Floyd county. He afterwards removed to Van Buren, Jackson county, preaching in Van Buren, Fairfield, and in Charlotte, Clinton county, one year. The next year he preached at Big Rock and New Liberty, Scott county. In 1864 he removed west and spent one year in Linn county, preach- ing at Troy Mills, Valley Farm and Cen- tral City. From thence he removed, in 1865, to Bristol, Worth county, preaching at Bristol and Forest City for three years. In 1869 he removed to Seneca, Kossuth
county. Here, assiated by Father Taylor, of Algona, he organized a Congregational Church, to which he ministered, in all, four years. For the last few years of his life he labored on a farm, preaching only on funeral occasions, the last being the funeral sermon of the death of the infant child of Mr. and Mrs. Ira Canon, in Em- mett county. Mr. Littlefield lived a roam- ing life, and no one will ever be able to tell the amount of good he has done. He had but little sickness, and his last was very short. He died as he had lived-a very devoted and good man, and his work shall certainly follow him. Ilis funeral sermon was preached by Rev. R. A. Paden. He bade adieu to earthly scenes Dec. 23, 1883, leaving a loving wife and adopted daughter to mourn his loss.
Abijah Batterson was born in Scioto Co., Ohio, March 6, 1822. He was reared on a farm. In 1851 he went to Washing- ton Co., Iowa, and purchased two farms of 172 acres. In October, 1875, he came to Kossuth county, purchasing 137 acres of improved land on section 14, township 98, range 30, Greenwood township. Mr. Batterson was married Nov. 7, 1858, to Miss N. A. Morgan, daughter of William and N. A. Morgan, of Washington Co. Iowa. Mr. and Mrs. Batterson have had seven children, five of whom are living- Eleanor, Abijah, Mary A., Laura R. and Sally. Mr. Batterson is a member of the Congregational Church, Mrs. Batterson of the Presbyterian Church. Mr. Batterson is an old ironsides democrat.
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