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Mr. Joslin was united in marriage February 22, 1874, in Lincoln Township, with Miss Alice V. Eggleston, the daughter of John S, and Mary (lividen) Eggleston, a sketch of whom appears elsewhere in this volume, and is the happy parent of two bright and promising children: Dillie D., and Ruby M.
OHN GEORGE ERB. deceased, one of the pioneers of Monona County, came here in the fall of 1854 and settled on a farm on section 5. Franklin Township, where he made his home until September 18, 1865, when he "passed into the realms of the pale shades of death." In far-away Germany he first saw the light. July 13, 1800, and in the Fatherland grew to manhood. Ile was married and three children were born to him there. Crossing the ocean to the free shores of America, for some years he made his residence in Maryland, but in 1849, he removed to Henry County, Iowa, where he lived until 1852. From there he went to Pottawattamie County, and for two years prior to coming to Monona County, was engaged in farming near Kanesville, now Council Bluffs. His wife, Anna Maria (Conrad) Erb, was the mother of ten children, six boys and four girls, and died in September, 1878, in Spring Valley Township She was born in Germany in 1802.
SAAC DAVIS, one of the pioneer settlers of Monona County, and still a resident upon the land which he occupied on coming here in April, 1855, on section 31, in the town of Frank- lin. was born in Columbiana County. Ohio. May 2. 1827, and is the son of Isaae and Edith ( Richards) Davis, Ilis father, who was the son of Isaac Davis also, was a native of Virginia who had
moved to Ohio in an early day, and engaged in farming. Later in life he had removed to Quincy, Adams County, Ills,, and from there to Lee County, lowa, where he died in 1839. The mother of our subject was a native of Ohio, and. died in this county in August, 1866.
Mr. Davis remained at home with his mother until 1855. when he came to Monona Connty, and took up a claim, and has since made his home in this section of the State. Ile was married July 4, 1866, to Miss Jennie F. Quinn, a native of County Antrim, Ireland, whose parents are still residents of the "Emerald Isle." By this marriage there have been nine children added to their family, who bear the following names: Edith A., Mahlon E., Jen- nie B., Bertha M., Maggie A., Esther R., Frances, Ruth J., and Bernerd II .. all of whom are still liv- ing at home.
When Mr. Davis came here he entered his land, about eighty acres, and some forty acres of tim- ber, which has since been washed away by the river, and returned to Lee County for his sister. Esther. now the widow of Hon. Stephen Tillson, living in this county, who accompanied him here in October.
- WILL SUDDUTHI. a representative of the " Fading Line of Blue," the veterans of the late Civil War, and who is now engaged in farming on section 31. Lake Township, was born in Bath County, Ky., August 30, 1835, and is the son of Lewis E. and Caroline T. ( Moffett) Sudduth. He came to Monona County, May 11, 1861, and settled upon a rented farm in Lake Township. In Mareb, 1862, he removed to the farm which he now ocenpies, having purchased it in July of the previous year, and as it was totally unimproved, and had on it considerable heavy prairie which required a heavy team, and as he had but one horse, and had to wait for oxen, it was June 15, before he was able to break even about seven acres. Oa the 15th of that month he commenced
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planting corn and various melon vines, and by the 17th of July, so favorable was the season, his corn stood about four and a half feet high, and the vines were in blossom. During the winter of 1861-2 he taught a term of school to fill in the time.
Seized with the patriotism that swept like an epidemie over our country, on the 18th of July, 1862, Mr. Sudduth enlisted in Company E, Twenty- third Iowa Infantry. After a trip to Davenport the company was ordered to Des Moines to join their regiment, and from there, about the 15th of Sep- tember, went to Keokuk. About this time Mr. Sudduth was promoted to the rank of Corporal. The regiment proceeded to Iron Mountain, Mo., by way of St. Louis, and after camping there and at Arcadia were ordered to Patterson, in the same State. At the latter place Mr. Sudduth had an at- tack of the measles, on recovering from which, while in a weakened state, and while in charge of the detail assisting in the erection of a block-house, about December 10 to 15, received an injury of the muscles of his left leg, hip and back, for which he has been pensioned, and on repairing to Van Bu- ren. Mo., January 14, 1863, he left the regiment never to rejoin it again. April 11, 1863, at St. Louis, he was detailed as clerk of the military com- mission. of which Col. W. T. Shaw, of the Four teenth Iowa, was President. Some time afterward Mr. Sudduth was examined and transferred to the Thirty-fifth Regiment, Second Battalion, Veteran Reserve Corps, Lieut. L. Cahill, late of the Sixty- ninth New York Infantry, commanding. On a certificate of disability, May 20, 1864, he was dis- charged by Maj .- Gen. Rosecrans and returned to his home, arriving there the 29th of May, 1864. The previous April his house and a wagon had been accidentally burned by the Indians, who had camped in the building, and until September be made his home with his mother-in-law in the same township. lle then removed to Cass County, Ill., and later to Greene County, in the same State, remaining in the latter until 1870, engaged in teaching when he came back to his farm in this county. Here he made his home until December, 1885, then removed to Wichita, Sedgwick County, Kan., June 6, 1889, he returned to the farm where he now lives. Ile
united with the Methodist Church in Sharpsburg. Bath County, Ky., in May, 1855.
Mr. Sudduth was married in Clinton County, Mo., September 29, 1859, to Miss Martha J. Combs, and they have had a family of ten children, as fol- lows: J. L., who is preparing for the ministry at Winfield, Kan .; J. B., who died in 1864; N. Z., who is married and carries on a barber shop in Whiting; Carrie, who died in 1875; W. W. ; J. M., a Lientenant in the Salvation Army, at Ft. Scott, Kan .; F. I .; Mary F .; Edith, who died in 1883, and M. A.
Col. William Sudduth, the grandfather of our subject, was born in Fauquier County, Va., August 25, 1761 or 1762, and removed to Kentucky when some eighteen years of age with the early pioneers of the " Dark and Bloody Ground." and was subse- quently Surveyor of Clark County when it em- braced all of Northern Kentucky, from Louisville to the mouth of the Big Sandy River. In 1794 he led twelve hundred mounted Kentucky riflemen to to join the army of Gen. "Mad Anthony" Wayne. and brought on the action at Fallen Timber, when the Indians were so signally defeated. He had two sons in the army during the War of 1812, one of whom died in the service, and the other, Col. James Sudduth, was cruelly murdered near Owingsville, Bath County, Ky., in September, 1862, by the rebels. Having a large relationship our subject had a number of relatives who fought in the ranks upon both sides during the Civil War, the rebel Gen. Hlood being one of them. Mr. Sudduth's mother died December 19. 18-17, leaving him alone without brother or sister.
ILLIAM RILEY. Among the early settlers who located in what is now St. Clair Town- ship, is the gentleman whose name heads this sketch, still one of its honored and respected citizens. Ile came here in April, 1870, and for several years was engaged in farming on rented land, but in the spring of 1875 he purchased a tract of land on seetion 11, raw prairie, except what improvements he had placed upon it himself,
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and there has made his home ever since. From these humble beginnings he has increased his store by the exercise of those talents that mark the suc- cessful farmer, and to-day has a beautiful and commodious cottage, surrounded by two hundred and forty acres of land, one hundred and thirty of which are devoted to cultivation, and is ranked among the affluent and well-to-do people of this section of the county. Landing here without one dollar in money, having invested the last of his means in a pair of boots, he came with but threc head of cattle and a span of horses, and for sev- eral years was compelled to struggle hard against adverse circumstanees, but the outcome has been a glorious reward.
Mr. Riley was born in Lawrence County, Ind., July 19, 1842, and is the son of William and Mar- garet (Butler) Riley, natives of Louisville, Ky., and Clark County, Ind., respectively. At the age of fourteen years, after laying the foundation of his education in the district schools, he removed with his parents to Appanoose County, Iowa, where he grew to manhood. Starting out in life for him- self he rented a portion of his father's farm and there made his home until the spring of 1870, when, with the idea of bettering his condition, he came to Monona County. He was married Octo- ber 16, 1866, in Davis County, Iowa, to Miss Anna Bailey, a native of Van Buren County, Iowa, and daughter of Orange and Liddie Bailey. By this union there has been born a family of twelve children : one that died unnamed in infancy, Eliza- beth, Sina, Rachel, Delia, Benjamin, William, Charles, Henry, Nora, Lulu and Maud.
G OTTLIEB C. LOHMANN, who is engaged in farming operations on section 23, St. Clair Township, where he settled in the fall of 1874, on coming to Monona County, was born in Schessel, llanover, Germany, July 18, 1827, and is the son of Carl II. and Margaret ( Behrens) Lohmann. He received his education in his native land and there made his home until January, 1851, when he went to London, England. April 7, 1852,
he started for America and arrived in New York city, June 21. Remaining in the metropolis until May 5, 1851, he then started for San Francisco and the gold fields of California, and, engaged at mining, made his home in that State until January, 1861. From there he went to Grafton, Ozaukee County, Wis., where he was engaged in farming until 1874. On the 8th of October, 1874, he started for Monona County, and soon, upon a farm, put up a little house. This was burned down March 31, 1875, with a loss to him of over $500. This he replaced shortly after, and has kept on improving his farm, to which he has added from time to time until he now has five hundred and sixty acres of excellent arable land, some two hun- dred and forty of which is under cultivation. All is well fenced, and upon it he has a beautiful and tasty residence besides the one which he erected in 1875, now occupied by his son Edward. He has also two fine barns and excellent sheds and ontbuildings on the place.
Mr. Lohmann, in obedience to the law of his na- tive State, June 24, 1848, entered the German army as a member of the Fifth Battery of Light Artillery, and served until October 1, 1849. During the late Civil War, on the 13th of October, 1864. he en- tered the United States service in Company K, Sixth Wisconsin Infantry, which became a portion of the Fifth Corps, and participated in several of the con- tliets in the Appomattox campaign, chief among which was the battle of Hatcher's Run, February 5, 1865. lle was discharged July 13, 1865, at Jef- fersonville, Ind.
Mr. Lohmann was married November 30, 1870, to Miss Theresa Nathlith, at Grafton, Wis. She is the daughter of Ernest and Fredricka Nathlith. By this union they have one child, Alvena, born March 21. 1874. This is Mr. Lohmann's third wife. Ilis first wife, Miss Amelia Wendt and he were married at Grafton, September 5, 1862, and by their union had one child, Edward, born October 8, 1863, who lost his mother October 17. of the same year. Ed- ward, now grown to manhood, married Miss Lizzie Riley, September 5, 1886, and is the father of two children: William R., born September 8, 1887, and Clara A., born February 10, 1889.
Mr. Lohmann, September 10, 1864, married Miss
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Matilda Nathlith, a sister of his present wife, who was the mother of one child. Louis, born April 16, 1866. Mrs. Matilda Lohmann died May 15, 1869.
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AMES L. BARTHOLOMEW. This gen- tleman is prominently known throughout Spring Valley Township and the county, as one of its enterprising and successful farm- ers, and as a leader in those projects tending to the moral and financial advancement of this commu- nity. Coming to this county October 25, 1869, with limited means, he and his family and their household belongings in one prairie schooner, drawn by a cheap horse team, he has built up one of the finest farms in that section of the county, and has been the sole architect of his own fortunes. Hle settled upon a farm which he rented on section 29, where he remained some three years, and then, in connection with his brother, leased the Graham farin at Preparation, and for another three years carried on his labors there. Purchasing the south- east quarter of section 15, he removed to it, and has by his own exertions increased his farm to six hundred and forty acres in this township, besides owning one hundred and sixty in Jordan Town- ship.
Mr. Bartholomew was born March 27, 1849, near Stockwell, Tippecanoe County, Ind., and is the son of James Bartholomew. His father, a native of Essexeshire, England, came to the United States, and settled in Dearborn County, Ind. While there he was united in marriage with Miss Mary Alden, a native of Dearborn County, and the daughter of Samuel .I. Alden, a descendant of the famous Puri- tan, John Alden, who came over in the Mayflower. in 1620, and who is the hero of Longfellow's poem. After his marriage, the elder Mr. Bartholomew re- moved to Tippecanoe County, Ind., where he was employed in farming and broom-making until March 2, 1840, when he was called npon by the angel death to cross the dark river. His wife died at the home of her parents in Dearborn County, about 1859 or 1860. Her father, who was born
about 1799, carried on farming and fruit raising until his death, which occurred in 1879.
Our subject who was one of three children born to his parents, his father dying about the time of bis birth, remained with his mother until he was about four years of age, when he became a member of the family of Jacob Osburne at Valparaiso, Ind., and afterward with James Lee, in Ripley County. and an uncle for some three years, until his mother was again married. Thus he passed the time drift- ing from one to the other, until some ten years of age. In December, 1861, he went with an uncle. who was an officer in the Fifty-second Indiana In- fantry, and remained with the regiment some three or four months, principally at, Ft. llenry. After- ward he was with Col. W. W. Lowe, of the Fifth Iowa Cavalry, with whom he remained in the field some six months, and then returned to his grandfather's in October, 1862. With the latter he resided until the fall of 1864, when he went to Greensburgh to learn shoemaking, but September 21. of that year, enlisted in Company A, Thirty- third Indiana Veteran Infantry, and served with that well-known regiment until June 20. 1865, par- ticipating in several engagements, the principal of which was on the bloody field of Nashville, when Hood and his rebel hordes were so terribly routed by "Pap" Thomas. Receiving his discharge, our subject returned to his home, and entered the Greensburgh High School, where he remained some eleven months, and then, in company with his brother, purchased a small piece of land, and en- gaged in gardening. He was married, September 25, 1867, to Miss Emma Simmonds, a native of De- entur County, Ind., who was born October 18, 1849, and remained in that locality until coming to this county as stated above.
In politics Mr. Bartholomew is a Republican, and has served as Township Clerk and Secretary of the school board, and in several minor offices, inchid- ing that of Justice of the Peace. He was the candidate of the Republican party for county com- missioner in 1883 and 1886. but was defeated both times by some twenty-six votes by I. U. Riddle, the fusion candidate. He was the opponent of F. F. Roe for member of the legislature, in the fall of 1887, and missed an election by only six votes.
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He has been a delegate to State and congressional conventions, and occupies a prominent and import- ant position in the political circles of the county. In 1889 he again received the nomination for member of the legislature from the Republican con- vention of his district, but was defeated again by but one vote.
Mr. and Mrs. Bartholomew are the parents of nine children. born upon the following dates: George A .. February 9, 1869; Ehner O. and Arthur O., October 21, 1870; Effie E., February 20. 1873; Mary Emma, June 9, 1875; Mabel Nellie, May 15. 1879; Lora Gail, January 29. 1885; Chester Allen, July 26, 1884; and James Murl. June 2, 1886. Chester Allen died September 29, 1885, and James Murl died May 6, 1889, from the effeet of a snake. bite.
Mrs. Bartholomew's father, Edwin Simmonds, a native of Ohio, was born February 11, 1793. He was united in marriage with Miss Mary Howard, a native of llamilton County, that State, who was born November 28, 1815, and the daughter of Sam- uel Howard. After their marriage they removed to Deeatur County. Ind., where he was employed in farming. His wife died November 30. 1855, leaving a family of eight children. Edwin Sim- monds died December 28, 1862.
Mr. Bartholomew has been recognized as one of the representative men of Monona County, and as such his portrait, which will be found on another page, is worthy a conspicuous place in this work.
ORONI WINEGAR, one of the prom- inent and influential farmers and stock. raisers of Spring Valley Township, and a representative of one of the county's pio- neer families, has his residence upon section 22. He was born in Hancock County, Ill., January 3, 1842, and is the son of Frederick D. and Lodema (Blanchard) Winegar, mention of whom is made elsewhere in this volume. Previous to his birth his father had united with the Church of lesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints, and on the emigra- tion of that people from Nauvoo, in 1816, went to
Missouri with a portion of them, and thenee to Council Bluffs in 1848. Our subjeet, the fourth child of his parents, was taken by them to those places and came with them to Monona County in the spring of 1853, and settled at Preparation. having embraced the peculiar tenets of that seet of their church, who located at that point with Elder Thompson. After the expiration of two years the father, with others. some twenty in all, seceded from the congregation and with his family removed to Kennebec Township where Moroni grew to manhood, receiving his education in the pioneer district schools. He remained at home upon the farm until October 14, 1862, when he en- listed in Company E, Sixth Iowa Cavalry, and with bis regiment was ordered to Dakota. Ile took part in the campaign undet (en. Sully, against the Sioux Indians in the Northwest and, besides scouting duty, participated in the battle of Whitestone ITill. September 3, 1865, he received his discharge at Davenport and returned to Monona County. In company with T. J. Perrin he bought and operated a sawmill in Harrison County for some two years when, returning here, he purchased a farm and en- gaged in its cultivation. In 1874 he purchased the place where he now resides, which he has in- creased to its present dimensions, some three hun- dred and sixteen acres, all of which is under an excellent state of cultivation. He is extensively engaged in stock-raising, in which he has made a great success, as he commenced with but very lim- ited means.
Mr. Winegar was married at Dunlap, Harrison County, May 22, 1877, to Miss Harriet A. Peters, a native of Erie County, N. Y., who was born May 22. 1849, and is the daughter of Richard L. and Lydia A. (Butts) Peters. Her father was born in the Empire State, Mareh 28, 1821, and her mother in Genesee County, N. Y., April 20, 1824. The latter had removed with her parents to Chautau- qua County, in the same State, where she was mar- ried March 30, 1843. Of this marriage were born three children: Franeis M .. December 29, 1849, who died at Norfolk, Va., in 1863, of sunstroke, a mem- ber of the Thirteenth New York Heavy Artillery ; Mrs. Winegar, and Ella M., born March 7, 1851, the wife of Thomas J. Lanyon, of Little Sioux.
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Her father died December 21, 1862. Mrs. Peters is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, although formerly connected with the Baptist com- munion.
Mr. and Mrs. Winegar have a family of six chil . dren : Lorena Bell, who was born June 7, 1878; Edith, November 3, 1880; Artie, born September 28, 1882, and died the same day; Leroy D., born January, 12, 1885; Ella Blanche, August 8, 1887, and Ann, October 13, 1889.
W ILLIAM L. WILEY, the proprietor of the Maple Valley Stock Farm, on section 33, Maple Township, and section 4, Center Township, came to Monona County, January 1, 1883, from Henry County, Ill , and located on the place where he at present resides, in Maple Town- ship, purchasing eleven hundred and sixty acres of excellent land. Ile brought with him two car- loads of graded Short-horn cattle and Hambleton- ian horses, to which he has added largely, keeping on hand now, generally, about fifty horses and one- hundred and seventy-five head of fine graded cattle, , and pays his attention largely to breeding fine stock.
On his arrival here Mr. Wiley erected a com- modious residence, 36x42 feet in size, in which he moved his family on their coming here in August, of the same year, but just six weeks from that time the house burned to the ground, destroying all its contents, valued altogether at $5,000, together with many articles, relies and the accumulations of years that were beyond any money value.
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The subject of this biography was born in Peoria County, Ill., August 29, 1816, and is the son of James M. and Margaret S. (Miles) Wiley. Ilis father was a native of Windsor County, Vt., and his mother of Connecticut. The mother died in 1859, when our subject was about thirteen years of age, leaving four children besides himself-Ellen A., Everett C. Mary C., and Carrie I. In 1861 his father married again, wedding Miss Mary Brooks, of Brimfield, Ill., by whom he had two children, Kate M. and George P .. the latter of whom is engaged |
in the banking business at Castana, this county. Mrs. Wiley dying, the elder Mr. Wiley removed to llenry County, Ill., where he laid out the village site of Galva, and was there married to Miss Liz- zie G. Yocum. in 1871, and there died in March, 1887.
William L. Wiley, who received in youth a good education, at the age of twenty-five years engaged in the lumber business at Galva, Ill., in which he remained about ten years, but, in 1883, selling out, lie came to Monona County, as above stated.
Mr. Wiley was united in marriage, October 18, 1870, with Miss Flora B. Wiley, a native of Ver- mont, and the daughter of Daniel and Mary (Bill- ings) Wiley. By this union there has been born a family of seven children: Mary B., Albert L .. de- ceased ; Edith, deceased; an infant that died un- named; Everett E., Stella L. and Fred L.
G EORGE II. BROOKS, an intelligent and en- terprising farmer of Lincoln Township, living on section 7, came to Monona County in 1866 with his father and helped settle the family. At that time there were very few people in what is now Lincoln Township, and tall grass. some eight or ten feet high, covered nearly all of its territory. He purchased a piece of land at the time and returned to Wisconsin, but November 14, 1868, made his appearance again at his father's house and, the following winter, both families made their residence in the same building. In the spring of 1869 he moved to his farm on section 9, having built a house the previous winter of hewn cottonwood logs, where he remained for about three years From there he removed to section 8, and seven years later to his present residence. When he landed in this county his earthly possessions consisted of a team and wagon, his household goods and $10 in money, but to-day he is the owner of one hundred and thirty acres of good land which is well improved and he is ranked among the well-to-do farmers of the community.
Mr. Brooks was born in Erie County, N. Y., May 22, 1843, and is the son of Elijab and Eliza A.
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Brooks. When he was about nine years of age he : the rebels, the Forty-fifth bore their part nobly. At was taken by his parents to Green County, Wis., where he was reared to manhood. When about twenty-two years of age he came to Towa, in search of work, and the same fall met his parents at Cedar Falls. on their way to Monona County, and came with them as above stated. Twice during the late war he enlisted in the United States service. but both times he was rejected by the examining surgeon.
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