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died in Mercer County, Ill., in 1856. Her mother, Mary Maddox, was born in Fauquier County, Va., August 5, 1807, and is still living with her son, Charles Menefee, in this county. After his marriage, the subject farmed in Ohio for four years, after which he went to Mer- cer County, III., where he lived and farmed for twenty years. In the spring of 1873, he came to this county, locating on his present place, which consists of 240 acres, but he farms con- siderable more. He has eighty acres in Sec- tion 10, and 160 acres in Section 15, Township 75, Range 39. Mr. and Mrs. Brown have had eight children, seven of whom are living- Samantha J., born June 20, 1849 ; Johanna, born July 28, 1851 ; Charles, born October 28, 1853 ; Benjamin, twin brother to Charles, died May 16, 1858; Theodore D., born June 22, 1856 ; Thomas W., born October 8, 1858 ; Hugh J., born September 13, 1861, and George A., born August 10, 1864. Samantha married Horace Bull. They are now living in Rock Island, Ill. ; Johanna married Austin R. Dun- can, and they are living in Walnut, this county. The sons are all living at home. Mr. and Mrs. Brown are members of the Baptist Church.
and two of the sons are members of the M. E. Church. In politics, the family are Repub- lican.
ALFRED B. CURTIS, farming, P. O. Oak- land, was born in Plainfield, Essex Co., N. J., October 30, 1847. He is the son of Jonathan and Hannah (Angleman) Curtis, both natives of Plainfield. N. J. His father was a farmer, and moved to Tazewell County, Ill., about 1857. He then moved to Logan County, of the same State, about 1860, where he died August 23, 1866. The mother of our subject was born August 2, 1822, and is still living in Logan County, Ill. Our subject lived at home np to the date of his marriage, which occurred in Galva, Henry Co., Ill., in 1874, when he married Sarah E. Frazce, born in the same place as our subject, November 10, 1844. She is the daughter of John W. and Mary (Rogers) Frazee, both natives of Essex County, N. J .; he born in 1811, and died in Peoria County, Ill., in 1872; she, born in 1814, and is still liv- ing in Galva, Henry Co., Ill. The parents left New Jersey in 1856, aud came to Peoria Coun- ty, Ill. After his marriage, our subject farmed in Logan County, Ill., until he left for this State February 17, 1880, locating in Shelby County. He moved to Center Township, this county, in the spring of 1882, where he pur- chased eighty acres of land in Section 4, Town 75, Range 39. He has two children-Oscar Whitfield, born February 27, 1877, and George Eugene, born June 25, 1880. Mr. and Mrs. Curtis are members of the M. E. Church. He belongs to the Masonic fraternity, and in politics is a Republican.
L. R. PUTNAM, farmer, P. O. Carson. was born in Jefferson, Coos Co., N. H., October 22. 1840. He is the son of George and Eliza- beth (Perkins) Putnam ; he was born in Charles- town, Sullivan Co., N. H., February 16, 1799. and she in the same place as our subject Sep- tember 22, 1809. His father was a farmer ; moved to Vermont about 1842, and to Illinois
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in 1852, locating near Dixon, Lee County. Here they lived until 1871, when they came to this county, where the father died on Novem- ber 12, of the following year. The mother is at present living with our subject. They had nine children, eight of whom are living-Ada; Mary E., wife of H. R. Storrs ; George M., married ; Jane, wife of W. Nangle ; L. R. (our subject); Ellen, wife of F. Morris ; Belle, and Charles W. The whole family live within two miles of each other, and are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Onr subject is not married. His farm, which consists of 160 acres, is situated in Section 33, Center Town- ship, and is the southwest quarter of that sec- tion. He has made his own improvements. In politics, he is a Republican.
J. M. STRONG, farmer, P. O. Oakland, was born in Berkshire County, Mass., September 5, 1812. He is the son of John and Sadie (Kas- son) Strong, both natives of Berkshire Coun- ty, Mass. His father was born June 2, 1782, and was a farmer by occupation. His mother was born May 12, 1786. The parents moved to Meigs County, Ohio, in 1814, where they both died, he April 31, 1845, and she June 15, 1834. Our subject received a common school educa- tion, and worked at home till he became of age. He began life for himself as a farmer. He was married in Meigs County, Ohio, January 28, 1834, to Mary M. Barker, born in Gallia County, of the same State, January 16, 1816. She is the daughter of Amos and Naney (Russell) Barker; he was born in Berkshire County, Mass., September 11, 1793, and died in our subject's house February 19, 1882; she was born in Greenbrier County, Va., December 20, 1792, and died in Warren County, this State, May 8, 1876. Mrs. Strong's father moved to Ohio with his father's family in 1807, locating in Gallia County. In 1845, they came to Iowa, and settled in Warren County, where both are now buried. After his marriage our subject farmed in Ohio until 1846, when he
came to this State, locating in Jefferson County. In 1865, he came to this county, settling on the place where he now resides. He has seven children living-Lanra A., born July 25, 1835, wife of Harvey Clayton ; Silas Cook, born October 13, 1837, married Lucy Clover ; Mary N., born February 18, 1845, wife of S. S. Rust ; Z. C., born November 17, 1848, married Martha J. Bird ; Lucinda M., born August 28, 1854, wife of Thomas Wallace; Horace E., born August 1, 1859, married Dolly Goff ; Frank O., born November 7, 1861. Mr. J. C. Strong is a partner in the firm of Strong & Hoff, hard- ware and implements, Oakland. With the ex- ception of Horace E., who has gone to Boone County, Neb., all of the children are living in this county. Our subject owns eighty acres of land in Section 8, Township 75, Range 40, where he at present resides. He has been a member of the County Board of Supervisors of this county, serving two years.
H. R. STORRS, farmer, P. O. Carson, was born in Trenton, Oneida Co., N. Y., February 3, 1828. He is the son of Calvin and May G. (Wells) Storrs. His father was a farmer, born in the same place as our subject, and moved to Wisconsin, arriving in Milwaukee October 27, 1847 ; he died in Chippewa Coun- ty, Wis., in 1868. The mother of our subject was born in Wethersfield, Hartford Co., Conn., and died in Wisconsin at the age of about eighty-three. Our subject received a common- school education, and afterward attended two terms at the high school. He worked at his grandfather's cheese-factory until he was eight- een years of age. He then began to learn the carpenter's trade, to which he apprenticed for three years. He then went to Wisconsin with his father, where he engaged in farming. He lost his health by running a " thrasher," after which he went South and worked at his trade. He was at St. Louis, and was also an overseer on a plantation in Kentucky, and acted also in the same capacity in Missouri. After three
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years, during which time he regained his health, he came to Illinois, stopping in Lee County. and was married at Dixon, the county seat of that county, January 11, 1855, to Mary E. Putnam, born in Jefferson, Coos Co., N. H., March 5, 1835. She is the daughter of George and Elizabeth (Perkins) Putnam. Our subject farmed in Lee County, Ill., for six years, when he moved to Chippewa County, Wis., living here five years. He then returned to Dixon, Ill., where he lived another six years. In October, 1872, he came to this county, locating in Center Township, purchasing bis present place, which consists of 240 acres in Sections 26 and 33, Township 75, Range 39. Hle engages in general farming, besides buying and selling largely in stock. Mr. and Mrs. Storrs have eight children living-Harriet A., Albert L., George A., Clara B., William R., Nellie L., Florence M. and Mabel F. The par- ents and the five oldest children are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. In poli- ties, Mr. Storrs is a Republican.
REASON R. THOMAS, farmer, P. O. Oak- land, was born in Nelson County, Ky., August 28, 1828. He is the son of Eleazur and Ann (Garrett) Thomas. His father was born in Vir- ginia (as near as can be ascertained), in 1780, and died in Nelson County, Ky., when our sub- ject was ten years of age. His mother was born in Spencer County, Ky., and died in Nel- son County, of the same State, of cholera, in 1833. Our subject received a common school education, but his father's death compelled him to look out for himself. He lived with an nnele in Shelby County, Ky., for seven years, after which he worked out by the month for some time. In the fall of 1848, he went to Spencer
County, Ind., where he worked at farming in the summer and cut cord-wood in the fall, making several trips on flat boats down the Ohio River. In the fall of 1852, he went to Henderson County, Ill., where he was married, August 2, 1855, to Mary C. C. Wright, born in Nelson County, Ky., April 17, 1839. She is the daughter of James and Lucretia (Hammond) Wright, both natives of the latter connty, he born February 17, 1812, and she March 30, 1814. The parents left their native State and settled in Hender- sou County, III., in the spring of 1848. They came to this county in the fall of 1867, and are still living in Center Township. After the marriage, our subject commenced farming for himself in Henderson County, Ill., where he lived till the fall of 1871, when he came to this county, locating on Graybill Creek, in Section 16, Center Township. In the spring of 1873. he came to the place he now owns, purchas- ing the same in 1875. It consists of 120 acres, located in Section 17, Township 75, Range 39. He also farms eighty acres besides, and raises principally grain. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas have twelve children, eight of whom are living- John Franklin, born August 25, 1857, died in November, 1861; Cyrena Adella, born October 25, 1859, married Jannary 1, 1878, to Sumner Palmer; James Amos, born December 10, 1861; McClelland, born June 15, 1864; Margaret Ellen, born October 26. 1866; Lucretia Ann, born January 28, 1869; Sarah E., born March 11, 1871, died in August of the same year; Reason R., born July 20, 1872, died September 6, 1873; Ira, born May 20, 1875; Era, born May 1, 1877, and Isaac Madison, born July 19, 1879. In politics, our subject is a Demo- crat.
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I. A. BOREN, farmer, P. O. Crescent City, was born in Hancock County, Ill., January 6, 1842; his father, J. B. Boren, was born in Illi- nois April 6, 1817, and married Nancy MeIn- tosh, who was born in Kentucky December 2, 1811, and died April 14, 1867. She was the mother of seven children, five of whom are liv- ing. I. A., with his parents, left Illinois and came to Davis County, Iowa, in 1846, and, in 1847, came to Pottawattamie County; at that time neighbors were few and far between. Mr. Boren attended the common schools, and, at an early age, adopted farming as his avocation, in which business he was successful. He mar- ried, in Crescent City, Iowa, January 14, 1877, Mary Smith, who was born in Michigan October 24, 1854, daughter of William and Eunice (Lacy) Smith, both of New York. Mrs. Boren died in 1881, leaving one child, Frances M .; Mr. Boren has also lost one child. In politics he is a Democrat, having been elected a number of times to offices on that ticket; he is a member of the I. O. of G. T., and also of the M. P. So- ciety.
ENOS P. CORBALY, farmer, P. O. Crescent City, was born in Marion County, Ind., May 30, 1851; his father, J. B. Corbaly, was born in the same county August 18, 1828; he married Eliza Pendergast, who was born in Bedford County, and died in 1858. Mr. Corbaly spent his child- hood days attending the common schools, where he received his education; coming to the age of manhood, he was for a time a salesman; his mind being of a mechanical turn, he learned the carpenter's trade, but afterward adopted farming, of which business he makes a success. September 13, 1870, he came to Pottawattamie County, Iowa; August 30, 1874, at Crescent City, he married Mazie A. Dunkle, who was
born in Center County, Penn., August 19, 1856; her parents were I. K. Dunkle, born in 1828, and Elizabeth (Myers) Dunkle, born December 25, 1834. Mr. and Mrs. Corbaly have two children-Harry G. and John L. In politics, Mr. Corbaly is a Republican; he belongs to the societies of I. O. of G. T. and the Grange.
G. B. HAMPTON, farmer, P. O. Crescent City, was born in Cumberland County, N. J .. January 14, 1856; his father, George Hampton. was born in Cumberland County April 1, 1830. and married Ruth Butcher, who was born in Cumberland County in September, 1832; G. B. Hampton was their only child. In 1863, he with his parents came West, and settled in Hastings, Minn .; he received his education in the common schools, and afterward in the Uni- versity of Minnesota. He began life by teach- ing school, and for awhile was employed as traveling salesman until 1875, when he came to Pottawattamie County, Iowa, and has since re- sided here, excepting a few months spent at his father's home. He is now a practical farmer and stock-raiser, and has, by his own industry and integrity, attained an enviable position among his neighbors. In politics, he is a Democrat; he is also a Good Templar.
WARREN M. HOUGH, farmer, P. O. Cres- cent City, was born in Pottawattamie County, Iowa, April 24, 1849; his father, S. M. Hough, having come to Iowa in 1841, from Oswego County, N. Y., where he was born January 6. 1818, and where he learned the blacksmith's trade. He married Eliza J. Allen, who was born in Oswego County, N. Y., April 15, 1823; they raised a family of ten children, six of whom survive. The father died November 9, 1881; at the age of ten, Mr. Ilough with his parents, removed to Crawford County, Iowa,
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where he spent seven years, and came back to this township in 1866. Here he has resided since, and has, by his industry and enterprise, gained the confidence of his neighbors, and has, at various times, filled township offices. At present he is a successful farmer and stock- raiser. In politics, he is a Greenbacker, having been converted to that party in 1876; since then he has also been a member of the I. O. G. T .; He was married, in Crescent City, to Rebecca E. Dunkle, November 28, 1872. She came to Pottawattamie County in 1870, with her par- ents, from Center County, Penn .; she was born October 19, 1856. Her father, L. K. Dunkle, was born in 1828, and married Elizabeth Myers, who was born in same county December 25, 1834. Mr. and Mrs. Hough have had three children, of whom but one, Walter, survives.
DENVER HOUGH, farmer, P. O. Crescent City, was born in Deloit, Crawford Co., Iowa, June 1, 1859, and is a son of S. M. and Eliza J. (Allen) Hough. S. M. Hough was born in Os- wego County, N. Y., January 6, 1818, and died November 9, 1881; he was a blacksmith by trade; his wife was born April 15, 1823; they had ten children, six of whom are living. Sub- ject came to this township with his parents in 1866, and has since resided here. He received his education in the common schools, and began life as a farmer, which occupation he has since followed. He was married in Crescent City, Iowa, March 15, 1882, to Miss Allie Alexan- der, a native of Pottawattamie County, born February 1, 1862, daughter of Charles and Catharine (Scott) Alexander. Mr. Hough has held some township offices; he is a Good Tem- plar, and in politics a Greenbacker. He is a good musician, and has furnished the music for a great number of balls.
MILTON C. HOUGH, farmer, P. O. Cres- cent City, was born in Denison, Crawford Co., Iowa, August 3, 1863, and came to Pottawatta- mie County in 1866, with his father, Mortimer A. Hough. The latter was born in Lee County,
Iowa, December 18, 1841; came to Pottawatta- mie County in 1846, and married Naomi Bar- rett, who was born at New Boston, Mercer Co., Ill., July 13, 1842, and to them five children were born. Milton C. received his education in the common schools, and is a natural pen- man, and also a musician. His father died No- vember 25, 1874, since which he has worked at farming to maintain and educate himself, and assisted his mother in doing the same for her younger sons ; he is a trusted employe: he joined the I. O. G. T. in 1877.
REV. H. KEITH, nursery and fruit grower, Crescent City, was born in Logan County, Ohio, June 8, 1826, son of Jacob Keith, who was born in Mason County, Ky., in February, 1793, and was engaged in farming and stock-raising until he died, February 13, 1869. He married Amelia Steward, of Mason County, Ky .. born December, 1793, by whom he had thirteen chil- dren, only four of whom are living. When the subject of this sketch was fourteen years of age, he, with his parents, came to Indiana; thence to Linn County, Mo., in 1837, where he remained until 1844. His childhood days were nearly devoid of school advantages, nevertheless he is a self-educated man. From Linn County he went to Mercer County, Mo., and remained until 1848. He married in Grundy County, Mo., October 7, 1846, Elizabeth H. Sutton, of Boone County, Mo., born March 6, 1826; her parents were John Sutton, born in 1795, in Garrett County, Ky., and Elizabeth (Davis) Sutton, of Madison County, Ky., born in 1801. Mr. Keith came from Missouri to Dallas Coun- ty, Iowa., where he remained until 1852, en- gaged in farming and cabinet work. He then removed to Mills County, Iowa, and remained until 1855, engaged in farming and stock-rais- ing. From there he went to Leavenworth, Kan., where he was principally engaged in farming. In 1856, he went to Dallas County, Iowa; remained a year, employed in farming, and then came to Grundy County, Mo., and fol-
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lowed farming until 1861, when he sold out and came to Wayne County, Iowa, where he re- mained six years. August 20, 1862, he enlisted in the Thirty- fourth Iowa Volunteers, Company F. Capt. McClanahan, and was under command of Grant and Sherman, He was at the capture of Vicksburg and Arkansas Post, and was sent to Chicago with prisoners captured at Arkan- sas Post; he went to St. Louis; then to Iron Mountain; then back to St. Louis, where he was crippled in Benton Barracks, from which he was discharged March 27, 1863, when he re- turned to Wayne County, Iowa. There he was appointed missionary for East Des Moines Con- ference until 1867, when he was sent to Union County, Dak., by the Missionary Board. There he resided for six years, and was sent from that district to the Legislature of Dakota. In 1873, he went to Antelope County, Neb., and in 1874 to Cass County, where he engaged in merchan- dising. In 1875, he came to Avoca, this coun- ty, as a missionary; in 1876, went to Shelby County; 1877, to St. John, Harrison County; in 1878, to Washington County, Neb., and the same year to Furnas County, where he re- mained until 1880, then removed to Blue Spring, Gage County, Neb. In 1881, he came to Cres- cent City, Iowa, and has since resided here; he is engaged at present in nursery and fruit grow- ing. At an early age, he became a Methodist Protestant, which has been his faith since. He has had eight children, six of whom are living. In polities, he is a Republican; he was first a Whig, then a Free-Soiler, and took an active part in the Kansas struggles; he is at present a member of the Grand Army Republic.
J. B. MATLACK, farmer, P. O. Crescent City, was born in Union County, Ind., Decem- ber 15, 1844; son of David H. Matlack, who was born in Pennsylvania April 21, 1819, was a harness-maker by trade, and died in 1880; he married Elizabeth Milward, who was born in Pennsylvania August 6, 1826, and died April 29, 1845. J. B. was one of seven children, five
of whom are still living. His mother having died when he was but a few months old, lie was taken care of by his grandmother, who gave him a common school education, and afterward apprenticed him to learn saddlery and harness- making. When the rebellion broke out, he en- listed at the age of seventeen, as a private, in the Fifteenth Indiana Battery, Capt. A. D. Harvey, and took part in many engagements; was a prisoner of war four months, and was mustered out June 30. 1865. Returning to his home in Marion County, Ind., he was married, February 9, 1867, to Martha J. Swaford, who was born in Marion County, Ind., August 16, 1851, daughter of Wesley and Catharine (Marts) Swaford, both of Wayne County, Ind. In 1868, Mr. Matlaek came to Pottawattamie County, Iowa., where he has since resided, ex- cepting three years' residence at Big Grove. Since his residence in this township, he has en- gaged in farming and stock-raising, Mr. and Mrs. Matlack have four children-George A .. Laura B., Willie A. and Pearl I. In polities. Mr. Matlack is a Republican, and has taken an active part in that party's actions, both local and otherwise; he has frequently been elected to office, and was a candidate for membership in the Board of Supervisors of Pottawattamie County in 1881, his successful competitor be- ing S. G. Underwood.
R. C. MENERAY, nursery, Crescent City, was born in Pottawattamie County, Iowa, July 6, 1855, son of William Meneray, who was born in Canada in 1822, and married Sophia A. Packard, who was born in Ohio October 1, 1828; he died March 10, 1880. To the parents eleven children were born, ten are now living, of whom R. C. Meneray is the fifth. At the age of three years he, with his father, came to Cres- cent City, Iowa, where the latter bought an in- terest in the Crescent Saw-Mill, and continued in that business until 1864, when he commenced fruit-growing and a nursery, which he continued until his death, when the business fell into the
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hands of our subject, who has since supplied the trade in his line of business, having now a nursery of forty acres, in which 3,000 trees are bearing at the present time. In politics, Mr. Meneray is a Republican, having been elected to fill township offices on that ticket in a town- ship that is three-quarters Democratic. He is also a Good Templar.
J. W. NUSUM, M. D., Crescent City, came to Crescent City four years ago, and began the practice of medicine, though previous to this he had practiced some time in Spring Hill, Warren County, Iowa. The Doctor was born in Waynesburg, Greene Co., Penn., in 1848, though his people moved to Virginia when he was four years old; there the early years of his life were spent. In 1866, when he was nine- teen years old, he removed to Des Moines, Iowa, with his people. He began the study of medicine in Des Moines, under Dr. J. Grimes, and then studied with Dr. James T. Wakefield, of Spring Hill, Iowa, after which he took a course at Rush Medical College, Chicago, where he graduated in 1868. He then returned to Spring Hill, where he spent two years in part- nership with his old preceptor, Dr. Wakefield. In 1872, at Indianola, Iowa, the Doctor married Miss Emma Armstrong, a native of Guernsey County, Ohio, born in 1852. Five children have been born to them, three of whom are now living, viz., Georgie G., Maggie E. and Ivy F. The genealogy of his family the Doctor is able to trace back to an honorable ancestry. Ilis grandfather and grandmother were both natives of England, and born a short distance north of London. In their early settlement in the United States, his grandfather joined the Americans in the Indian war, and while fighting under St. Clair, was taken prisoner by the Indians and held a captive for three years. His father, George G. (who spelled his name Neusum), was born in Virginia in 1822, and lives in Iowa; : his mother, Eliza J. (Kimball) Nusum, was | candidate several times for county oflices on born in Greene County, Penn., in 1826, and died , that ticket. He joined the Masonic fraternity
in 1861. During the war of the rebellion, the Doctor spent some time in the Confederate serv- ice, under command of Gen. Morgan; he was wounded three times during his service; he has now a good and lucrative practice established. and has gained a place in four years which many physicians struggle ten years to attain. C. F. PRATT, farmer, P. O. Crescent City. was born October 19, 1824, in Abbeville County. S. C .; son of W. Pratt, who was born in Ab- beville County, S. C., September 27,1798, and was engaged in farming, when he married Mar- tha Murdock, born in Newberry County, S. C .. July 30, 1803; he died January 26, 1863, but his wife survives, and is now seventy-nine years old. To her seven children were born; five survive, of whom Mr. C. F. Pratt is one. He spent his earlier years on thefarm of his father, receiving a common school education. At the age of twenty, at his home, July 2, 1845, he married Gabrilla Callaham, who was born in the same county July 30, 1823; her parents were John and Nancy (Stephenson) Callaham, who were born respectively in Virginia and South Carolina. In 1845. Mr. Pratt removed to Chattooga County, Ga., and engaged in farm- ing and school teaching; he enlisted as a vol- unteer September 2, 1861, in Company I, Thirty-fifth Georgia, Hill's corps of Lee's army; took part in a number of engagements, and sur- rendered at Kingston, Ga., May 17, 1865. In 1869, he came West, and stopped a few months at Omaha, Neb., then came to Pottawattamie County, Iowa, and engaged in saw-milling until 1879, when he changed to farming, in which business he still continues. Mr. and Mrs. Pratt had nine children, one of whom is dead. Their names are John W., Nancy E., James A., Syl- vester V., Martha Ann (dead), Emma M., Phebe J., Charles F. and Frances L. Mr. Pratt be- longs to the Latter-Day Saints, or Mormons; he is a Greenbacker in politics, having been a
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