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C. W. BRYANT, of Norton & Bryant, hard- ware, Oakland, was born in Kentucky Decem - ber 3, 1834. He is the son of James M. and Elizabeth (Sulenger) Bryant; his father was born in Georgia about 1808. He moved to Kentucky, and afterward to Missouri about 1836. He was married near Vincennes, Knox Co., Ind. Ile lived in Scotland County, Mo., for several years, and in 1843 moved to Putnam County, Mo. In 1850, he came with his family to Council Bluffs (then Kanesville). He first lived in a little log cabin, sitnated just west of
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where the Pacific House now stands. In the summer of 1850, he bought a Mormon claim, located about one mile east of the Ogden House; he died September 16, 1851. The fam- ily moved back to Scotland County, Mo., in the following spring. Our subject's mother was born in Indiana in 1813. He left her in Scot- land County, Mo., and in the spring of 1853 came to Council Bluffs, where he worked with his uncle, A. S. Bryant, on his farm till the spring of 1860. The three following years he was in Colorado and New Mexico. He returned to the Bluffs and assisted his uncle in the Farm- ers' Hotel. lle afterward went in partnership with Henry Thatcher, and kept a provision store on the Union Pacific Railway, while that road was being built. They were located at different points on that road at different times. They sold out, and our subject returned to the Bluffs, and engaged in the grocery business, in connection with E. Hubbard. He sold out shortly afterward, and for some time was en- gaged in various occupations, finally going in partnership with his brother, R. T. Bryant. and W. B. Clark in the real estate business. They bonght eighty acres of land of A. S. Bryant, situated west and north of the Union Paeitle Transfer Depot. They divided it up into town lots. In September, 1870, our subject, with his brother, opened a dry goods and furniture store. In December of the same year, they moved their business to Avoca, this county, where they continued it till the election of R. T. as Clerk of the District Court, after which subject conducted the business till the spring of 1876, when he sold ont. He then clerked for C. H. Norton in a hardware store in Avoca. After this he went in partnership with his brother, J. C. Norton. and opened up in the hardware business in Oakland. They added a line of furniture, and the firm still stands Nor- ton & Bryant. Our subject was married in Council Bluffs, on March 7, 1871, by Rev. P. H. Cleland, to Louisa F. Brockie, born in
St. Louis, Mo., in 1852. She was the daughter of Henry and Jenuie (Wells) Broekie, both natives of Glasgow, Scotland. They came to this country in 1850, landing in New Orleans, La. They lived for a time in St. Louis, and came to Council Bluffs in 1857. The father is dead, and the mother is at present living in Mills County, this State.
JOSEPH CARSE, farmer, P. O. Oakland, was born in County Down, Ireland, December 21, 1808. He is the son of John and Aba- gail (McCormick) Carse, both natives of Coun- ty Down, Ireland. His father was born in 1776. He was a farmer, and his ancestors, as near as we can ascertain, came from Scotland in A. D. 1611. His (subject's) mother was born in 1766. and died in her native country in 1850. Our subject received a fair education in the old sub- seription schools. His grandfather took ont a perpetuity on a piece of land in 1748, on which our subject and his father lived; Lord Dufferin was his landlord. Our subject came to the United States in 1860, locating in Lee County. Ill., where he lived and farmed until 1878, when he came to this county, and now lives on See- tion 21, Township 75, Range 40. He was mar- ried in County Down, Ireland, October 6, 1843. to Elizabeth Spratt, born in that county Octo- ber 27, 1821. She was the daughter of John and Hannah (Carse) Spratt; both natives of the latter county; her father, born October 31. 1775, and died about 1869, in Ireland; her mother, born in the same county in 1796, and died May 26, 1849. Mr. and Mrs. Carse have had eleven children- Ilannah, born September 19, 1844; Abigail, born November 20, 1846. died November 31, 1878; John, born January 10, 1849; Elizabeth, born March 19. 1851; Jo- seph, born March 19, 1833; James, born March 13, 1855; William, born March 15, 1857; Archie, born December 23, 1858; Ann I., born October 12, 1860; Sarah A., born Feb- ruary 11, 1863, and Robert H., born De- eember 10. 1865. The family are all members
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of the Presbyterian Church. Mrs. Carse has a brother in Lee County, Ill., and a sister living in Allegheny City, Penn.
JAMES CARSE, farmer, P. O. Carson, was born in County Down, Ireland, October 19, 1830. He is the son of James and Mary (Gaugh) Carse, both natives of the same coun- ty. His father was a farmer, and died when onr subject was fourteen years old. His an- cestors were Scotch " non-conformists." His (subject's) mother, was of English descent, and died in Ireland. The parents had ten children, five sons and five daughters. Our subject has four sisters living in America, and a brother John, who is a successful miner in Australia. He (subject) received a good common school education, and lived with his mother's family until he came to America in 1859. He located at Newburg, Orange Co., N. Y., where he lived for two years, being engaged as a coachman; he then came to Dixon, Ill., where he worked ont for nine months, at the end of which time he commeneed farming for himself. He was married at Dixon, Ill., September 3, 1863, to Mary Wallace Carse; born in the same place as her husband, January 17, 1835. She was the daughter of James and Margaret (Wallace) Carse, both natives of Ireland, and both of whom are dead. Subject's wife came to the United States in 1857, living in Baltimore, Md., till 1863, when she moved to Illinois. After his marriage, our subject farmed in Illinois for fourteen years. He purchased his land in this county September 6, 1876, and moved on it in the spring of 1877. He has made all the im- provements himself; he has six children- Margaret Wallace, Mary Gaugh, Sarah Eliza- beth, William Henry, James Stewart and John Archibald. Mrs. Carse's parents had six chil- dren, three sons and three daughters. All of the daughters and one son-James, are living in this country. James is living with our sub- jeet, and owns eighty acres of land adjoining his farm, which consists of 240 acres in Sec- 1
tions 19 and 20, Belknap Township. His spe- cialty is stock, for which he raises his own grain. Mr. and Mrs. Carse were raised Presbyterians. In politics, he is Republican.
G. W. COOPER, of G. W. Cooper & Co., general merchandise, Oakland, was born in Erie County, Penn., the son of Wilson and Margaret (Riblet) Cooper, both natives of Pennsylvania. Our subject received a good education; he came to Council Bluffs in 1867, and has been a resident of this county ever since. In 1869, he was engaged as traveling salesman by Brew- ster & Co., of Council Bluffs. He remained in their employ for one year, after which he trav- eled eleven years for Steward Bros., of the same city. In March, 1880, he began business for himself in Oakland, this county. He rented a storeroom of Mr. Daniel Freeman, situated at the foot of Oakland avenue. In the spring of 1882, he moved up to the corner of Oakland avenue and Main street, where, under the firm name of G. W. Cooper & Co., he is engaged in the general merchandise business.
A. T. COX, publisher, Oakland, was born in Newton, Jasper Co., Iowa, June 9, 1857. He is the son of John M. and Mary (Wilson) Cox. His father was born in Monroe County, Ind., January 31. 1823. His (subject's) mother was born in the same place in 1321. His parents moved from their native State to Green Bay, Wis., where they lived for a short time, after- ward going to Jasper County, this State. Here the father was engaged in the flour business for a short time, after which he farmed in the same county for six years. In 1864, the family moved to Shelby County, Iowa, near Harlan, where the family have carried on a farm, while the father worked at his trade of painter and plasterer. He is also a Baptist clergyman, and is pastor over several charges. The parents have nine children-five sons and four dangh ters, all of whom except our subject and his youngest brother are married, and all except subject live in Shelby County, this State. Our
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subject received a common school education, and began life for himself by teaching school, which he followed for about six years with marked success. In the spring of 1882, he as- sumed entire control of the Oakland Acorn, which he has since conducted with great zeal and a commendable spirit of independence, ad- vocating right at all times, without regard to party or personal interests.
W. H. H. DABNEY, stock and grain, Oak- land, was born in Vermillion County, Ill., De- cember 31, 1835. He is the son of Henry and Maria (Stanfield) Dabney. His father was born in King William County, Va., December 31, 1795; he had a number of slaves left him, which he afterward set free; he left his native State in 1825, and. in the winter of 1825-26 he taught the first school in Terre Haute, Ind .; he went from here to Vermillion County, Ill., where he located, and was married. He was a sol- dier in the war of 1812, and was in a number of active engagements; he moved to Dallas Coun- ty, this State, in 1855, and afterward to Madi- son County, Iowa, where he died in Winterset March 24. 1870. His (subject's) mother was born in Knoxville, Green Co., Tenn., October 6, 1813, and is still living, in the enjoyment of good health, in Winterset, Madison County, this State. Our subject has eight brothers and two sisters living. One brother is a prominent lawyer in Madison County, Iowa. Our subject received a common school education and worked on his father's farm until twenty-one years of age, when he started in for himself by clerking in a store for two years; he then start- ed for Colorado without a dollar; he commenced business with two yoke of cattle and a wagon, which he bought on time; he freighted four years from the Missouri River to Colorado. and four years from Salt Lake City to Montana; he then owned ten wagons, with five yoke of cattle to each. During this time he came home, and was married, March 15, 1866, to Mary B. Lee; born in Licking County, Ohio, September 12.
1849. She was the daughter of E. B. and Ann (Shields) Lee. Her father was born in Licking County, Ohio, in 1814; he was a farmer and stock-shipper; he died in Barton County, Kan., at the age of sixty-eight; her mother was born in Jefferson County, Ohio, in 1824, and is now living in Barton County, Kan. After his mar- riage, our subject freighted for eighteen months, at the end of which time he sold his train and returned to this State, locating in Winterset. Madison County. Here he dealt in land, stock and grain, and built and ran an elevator. In i February, 1880, he moved to this county, hav- 1 ing previously, in 1868, bought the farm on which he now resides, Section 2, Township 75. Range 40. He owns 600 acres in Belknap and James Townships, which is farmed by renters. He is engaged in feeding and shipping stock, and also grain. He has had four children, all of whom were born in Winterset. this State-William. died when he was eighteen months old; Minnie Alice, born October 5, 1868; John Maurice. born April 4, 1872; llenry Bowman, born July 9, 1875. Mr. and Mrs. Dabney are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He is a member of the I. O. O. F., and in politics, a Re- publican.
J. L. FETTER, farmer, P. O. Oakland, was born at Mt. Pleasant, Westmoreland Co., Penn., September 19, 1820. He is the son of Christian and Sarah (Lobingier) Fetter. His father was born in Richmond, Va. He was a physician, and followed his profession up to the time of his death, which occurred in Caledonia, Put- nam Co., Ill., in 1847. He came to his death by an accident. Upon returning home one evening from his usual round of professional visitation he came to a ditch which it was necessary that his horse should jump. He stood upon the opposite side of the ditch, and called upon the animal to jump, which did so at once, but struck upon the unfortunate man, inflicting injuries which proved fatal. His (sub- ject's) mother was born at Mt. Pleasant, West-
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moreland Co., Penn., May 5, 1796, and died at subject rents out his 600 acres of land, which the residence of her son-in-law, Dr. L. S. Herrs, he owns in Belknap Township. He and family are members of the Christian Church. in Evansville, Ind., March 25, 1881. Our sub- jeet lived with his grandfather, John Lobingier, DANIEL FREEMAN, retired merchant. Oakland, was born in St. Louis, Mo., April 26. - 1818 ; his father, Daniel Freeman, was born in New Hampshire in 1780, and came West to St. Louis, Mo., in 1800, when that place was a small village. There he built a hotel called the "Green Tree," where he had the honor of entertaining La Fayette, when that noted soldier and statesman visited the United States; he died near St. Louis in 1839. Mr. Freeman remembers St. Louis, as it was in the days of its crooked streets and old-fashioned houses, when the few steamboats then on the river fired cannon to denote their approach to the city. Mr. Freeman received a good education for those days, and lived at home till his father's death, when he was married, and farmed for three years in Illinois, opposite St. Louis; thence went to Rockford, Winnebago County, where he remained five years, and then went to Rock County, Wis. In the latter place. Mr. Freeman lost his wife, Mary Waller, whom he married in Madison County, Ill .; she was born in Kentucky in 1818, and was the daughter of Richard and Naney (Ellis) Waller ; he is a native of Maryland, and she of Georgia. From Rock County, Wis., Mr. Freeman moved to La Fayette County, where he farmed for about twenty-five years. Six years after the death of his first wife, Mr. Freeman married Elizabeth Swindlow, born in England in 1834. In 1876, Mr. Freeman came to Big Grove, Pottawat- tamie County, engaged for two years in the mercantile business, and then sold out to his son-in-law, G. L. Whitehead. Since selling out, Mr. Freeman has lived in retirement from active - business pursuits, though he still has some business interests. Mr. Freeman lias five sons by his first wife, viz .: James Wilson, William Henry, Daniel Boone, Levi Ellis and Benjamin Franklin ; they are all married and doing well. until he was twenty years of age. His grand- father was a prominent lawyer, and was Judge of Westmoreland County, Penn. He raised our subject, and gave him the best education that was obtainable in the city of Mt. Pleasant. Our subject came West with his father in the spring of 1840, and settled at Caledonia, Put- nam Co., Ill. Here he studied law. He was married, April 19, 1843, eleven miles east of Lacon. Ill., at Elder II. D. Palmer's residence, to Charlotte R. Palmer ; born in Carlisle, Ind., November 1, 1821. She was the daughter of Elder H. D. and Martha (Angel) Palmer. ller father was born in South Carolina, and was one of the first ministers of the Christian Church. He was engaged in active ministerial labors for over forty years. He emigrated from his native State on account of his repugnance for slavery. He and a number of others brought their slaves along with them, and liberated them upon their arrival at their destination. IIe first settled in Illinois, not far from Vincennes, Ind, and afterward moved to Carlisle, Ind. In the latter part of his life he moved to Eureka, Woodford Co., III., where he died at the age of eighty-one. His wife (our subject's wife's motlier) was a native of North Carolina. She emigrated to Tennessee, where she was married to Elder Palmer. After his marriage, our sub- ject lived in Lacon, Ill., until April, 1856, when he came to Big Grove, this county. Ile still resides' on his original settlement-northwest quarter Section 10, Township 75, Range 40. Ile has been Magistrate for eighteen years, and was Town Clerk for ten years. He is at present Treasurer of the School Board. He has four children-Frank P. (a graduate of Oskaloosa College, elass of '78), Trannie B. (wife of J. II. Louis, who is County Recorder and Auditor of Shelby County, Lowa), Florence and May A. Our
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By his second wife, Mr. Freeman has had five children-Don Alonzo, Nancy Emily (deceased), Elizabeth Murray (now wife of L. G. White- head), Elmer Ellsworth and Charles Frederick. Mr. Freeman is a strong Republican.
W. H. FREEMAN, banker, Oakland, was born in Rockford, Ill., April 11, 1844 ; son of Daniel and Mary (Waller) Freeman ; he was born in St. Louis, Mo., April 29, 1818 ; she, born in Kentucky in April, 1819, died in Wis- consin April 9, 1850. Subject's father was one of the early settlers of Rockford, locating there in 1843. From Rockford, Ill., subject's father moved to Wisconsin, where he lived in Rock and La Fayette Counties respectively till 1876, when he came to Big Grove, and engaged for about two years in the mercantile business; then sold out to Mr. Baker, and now lives in Oakland. Subject's mother died when he was six years old, and he lived with his mother's relatives till he was eleven years of age, when he joined his father in La Fayette County, Wis. Mr. Freeman engaged in farming with his father till twenty-one years of age, when he went to Davis, Ill., and farmed for one year. He came from Davis to Big Grove, Iowa, remained a short time, and then went to Ne- braska, where he furnished wood and ties for the Union Pacific Railroad, then in course of construction. In 1867, Mr. Freeman left Ne- braska, and returned to Big Grove, remained till spring, and removed to Newtown, near what is now Avoca; while there he constructed the wood culvert extending from Walnut to Neola, on the Rock Island & Pacific Railroad. In May, 1869, Mr. Freeman purchased what was known as the Davenport Saw-Mill, and moved it to Big Grove, where he operated it in con- nection with the mercantile business ; in the latter, he was interested with his brother, D. B. Freeman. In the fall of 1876, Mr. Freeman removed his saw-mill to Green County, Wis., when he continued the lumber business, making a specialty of black-walnut till the summer of
1881, when he returned for the third time to Oakland. Here, December 23, 1881, our sub- ject in connection with his brother, B. F. Free- man, opened the "Oakland Bank" under the firm name of " W. H. & B. F. Freeman, private bankers." Our subject was married in Avoca, Pottawattamie County, Iowa, September 21, 1869, to Malinda J. Shipp, born in Greencastle, Iowa, November 30, 1851; daughter of Albert and Mahala (Piles) Shipp, natives of Kentucky; he, born January 1, 1825, is a farmer, living in Shelby County, Iowa; she, born November 20, 1826, died December 10, 1864; her parents were early settlers of Jasper County, Iowa. Mr. and Mrs. Freeman have two children-Jennie May, born March 3, 1871, and Clyde Alden, born September 14, 1873. After the incopora- tion of Oakland in April, 1882, Mr. Freeman was elected Mayor; he has also served as Justice of the Peace; he is a Mason and a Re- publican.
EMIL J. GEHRMANN, farmer, P. O. Car- son, was born on the river Weiser, Germany, December 7, 1850. He is the son of Charles F. and Johannah (Riceland) Gehrmann. His father was a machinist and engineer, born in Germany March 20, 1823. He was passenger engineer for about twenty years. He ran the first German train into Russia, and also the first train that was run between Moscow and Kaurch, as a trial, prior to drawing the train that bore the Duke Alexis to the Black Sea. He drove the train that bore the Duke on his trip. He also ran the first train on this road, which train, before starting, was sprinkled with Holy water, by the Priest of the Greek Church. From the early part of 1860 to 1869, our sub- ject's father lived in several different places in Russia. August 16, 1869, he, with his family landed in New York City. They came to Chicago and visited a few days with a brother. In September of the same year they came to Council Bluffs. The father had come ahead and purchased land in Macedonia Township,
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this county, where the family moved, and lived for six years. At the end of this time they sold out and bought in Section 29, Township 75, Range 40, where the father (our subject) and a brother, have each farms. The father worked ten years in the Union Pacific machine shops, but has now retired to his farm. Our subject's mother was born in Saxony, Germany, August 16, 1827. This was the native Prov- ince of Martin Luther, and she has seen the house in which the school which he attended was kept ; also his ink-bottle and pen. When a little girl, she visited his grave, and planted small bass-wood trees about it. Our subject received a good education in the German and Russian schools. He talks fluently the Ger- man, Russian and English languages. He at- tended a mechanical institute in Germany, and studied the machinist trade from 1863 to 1866. He afterward fired about one year on a rail- road, finally becoming an engineer himself. Since coming to this country he has devoted his attention exclusively to farming, and has been very successful. He now has 120 acres of land. He was married in Belknap Town- ship, this county, May 1, 1879, to Elizabeth Carse, born in County Down, Ireland, near Belfast, March 19, 1851, a daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth (Spratt) Carse, both natives of Ireland. Her parents and family came to America in 1860, locating in Dixon, Ill., where they lived for about eighteen years. They came to this county in 1878, locating on the farm in Section 21, Belknap Township, where both the parents still reside. Mr. and Mrs. Gehrmann have one child-Emil, born May 2, 1880. They are members of the Lutheran Church.
F. H. GEHRMANN, farmer, P. O. Carson, was born in Berlin, Prussia, August 25, 1852. He is the son of Charles F. and Johannah (Riceland) Gehrmann. (Seesketch of E. J. Gehr- mann.) Our subject received his education principally in Germany. He attended the com-
mon schools until he was fourteen years of age, after which he attended two years at the high school. He then learned the carpenter's trade, at which he worked till he came to America, with his father, in 1869, since which he has been engaged in farming.
H. A. GOFF, stock-dealer, Oakland, was born in Henry County, Ind., January 30, 1833, son of Abram and Nancy (Smith) Goff, natives of Kentucky; he was a farmer by occupation, and died when our subject was eighteen months old; she was born about 1809; after the death of her first husband, she married Robert Erwin, of Virginia; she died in Henderson County, Ill., in 1879. Mr. Goff left home at the age of sixteen, and worked by the month till Novem- ber, 1851, when he was married in Tippecanoe County, Ind., to Elizabeth Crose, a native of the aforesaid county, born in 1833, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Crouch) Crose, natives of Ohio. After his marriage, Mr. Goff farmed one year in Tippecanoe County, Ind., then moved to Henderson County, III., where he bought land and farmed for sixteen years. There Mr. Goff lost his wife March 20, 1858, and then he again married, November 28, 1859, this time to Sarah Jane Brown, born in Ken- tucky October 28, 1839, daughter of Charles and Ann (Percell) Brown, natives of Ken- tucky ; he was born December 25, 1810, and came to Illinois with his family, when Mrs. Goff was five years old; her mother died in Illinois ; her father is now living with his chil- dren in Iowa. In the fall of 1868, Mr. Goff came to Pottawattamie County, Iowa, and bought land in James Township ; this land he improved and lived upon till the following summer, when the grasshoppers became troublesome and he returned to Illinois. After remaining in the latter State eighteen months, he returned to his farm in Iowa, where he re- mained till the spring of 1882, when he moved in Oakland, where he has since been engaged in trading in cattle and logs. For the past ten
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years, Mr. Goff has furnished beeves to the butchers of Avoca. Mr. Goff has, by his second wife, seven children-Ellen (now Mrs. Hayse), George, Flora Ann (now Mrs. Clay- ton). Dolly Jane (now Mrs. Strong), Charles, Lily May and Samuel. Mr. Goff is a Demo- crat
JOHN McDONALD, flour and feed, Oak- land. was born in County Tyrone, Ireland, in April, 1834; his father, William McDonald, was born in the same place as subject, and was a miller by occupation; he emigrated to the United States and settled in Illinois, Warren County, in 1855, and died the following year of typhoid fever. Subject's mother was born in Ireland; came to this country with her husband and died at Oxford, Jones. Co., Iowa. Subject's brother, Samuel, and sister Martha, came to the United States with their parents, the oldest brother preceded them to this county. Mr. McDonald received a fair common school education, and worked with his father at milling, until he mar- ried. March 8, 1852, Bessie McElhinney, born in Ireland November 20, 1833. She was a danghter of William and Bessie (Thompson) McElhinney, uatives of Ireland, where the father died. After his marriage, Mr. MeDon- ald, came to this country and located in War- ren Connty, Ill., June 3, 1853. Ile ran a grist- mill at Monmouth, Ill., for four years for Silas Umpstead; then moved to Keithsburg and con- ducted a mill for Joseph Ogden, for seven years; thence to North Henderson, Mercer County, for a year; then, after a year spent in Millersburg, he purchased a mill in Bureau County, Il .; operated it for two years, sold it and came to Jones County, Iowa, where he rented a mill for a year. Upon leaving Jones County, Mr. McDonald moved to Union Towu- ship. Shelby County, where he bought a farm near the present site of Defiance; there he en- gaged in farming for seven years, when he and his wife began traveling for the latter's health in California and Washington Territory; in the ! In politics, Mr. McMurry is a Republican.
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