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dren, viz. : Fred, Edith, William, Myrtle, Blanche and Francis. Subject has held somc township offices ; is a member of the M. E. Church, a Republican ; enlisted in Company A, Seventy-fifth Illinois Infantry ; mustered out June, 1865 ; was in the battles of Stone River, Perryville, Lookout Mountain, Mission Ridge, Kenesaw. Atlanta, Franklin, Nashville, Tenn., and others. He moved from New Hampshire to Illinois in 1853, thence to Iowa in 1873, when he bought 160 acres of land for $9 per acre, which is worth at least $30 per acre. There is a.small young orchard of about one acre and some natural and artificial timber on the place.
ISOM REYNOLDS, farmer, P. O. Wheeler's Grove, born in North Carolina January 16, 1847, son of Wilson and Nancy (Spurling) Reynolds, both born in North Carolina ; he, a farmer, is probably still living ; she is still living. They had eight children, four of whom are living. Subject received a common-school education ; commenced life as a laborer on the farm, and was married in this county, Novem- ber 11, 1875, to Miss Cornelia J. Foot, born in Ohio October 25, 1851, daughter of Adonijalı and Elizabeth (Bedell) Foot ; he, born in New York ; she, in New Jersey ; both are still living. Mr. and Mrs. Reynolds have two chil- dren, viz. : Eva Elnora, born in this county, January 20, 1877. and Hermie Blanche, also born in this county, March 26, 1878. Subject is a member of the Christian Church, a Repub- lican, a Vigilante and was drafted into Company D, North Carolina Infantry, remaining three or four months when he was sent home on a sick furlough, and the war closing before his return, this ended his military career. He moved from North Carolina to Hardin County, Iowa, about 1870, working as a hired man, moving in 1872 to this county, where he leased land until about 1874. when he bought eighty acres at $10 per acre, which is now worth $30 per acre. There is a fine young orchard of one and one-half acres, a mixed grove of the same amount and
a large quantity of the smaller fruits on the płace.
COLUMBUS REYNOLDS, farmer, P. O. Carson, born in North Carolina November 12, 1848, son of Wilson and Nancy (Spurling) Reynolds; he, a farmer, born in North Carolina, is still living; she, born in the same place, is also still living. They had eight children, four of whom are living. Subject received a com- mon school education; commenced life as a farmer, working for others, and married, in Iowa, September 16, 1872, Sarah Wilson, born in Indiana July 10, 1851, daughter of William T. and Anna (Pemberton) Wilson; he, born in North Carolina August 22, 1821; she, born in Indiana August 17, 1827, died October, 1872. Mr. and Mrs. Reynolds have three children, viz., Nancy R., Laura J. and Anna E., all born in this county. He is a Christian, a Republi- can, an Odd Fellow; and moved from North Carolina to Whitesides County, Ill., in 1867, working for the farmers; in the fall, he moved to Hardin County, Iowa; worked by the month until 1868, when he moved to this county and leased land for a few years. In 1872, he bought eighty acres of land at $10 per acre; now owns 240 acres valued at $45 per acre. There is a very fine orchard of about three acres, a large quantity of small fruits, and a very beautiful, large two-story residence on the farın. In 1880, he was damaged to the extent of $800 by the cyclone, which passed through this region on June 9, 1880; some of his horses were blown eighty rods; his cattle, hogs and chickens were blown all over the prairie for a distance of at least a mile.
JOHN JACKSON RODENBOUGH, farmer, P. O. Wheeler's Grove; born in New Jersey, June 10, 1832, son of George S. and Elizabeth (Jackson) Rodenbough, both natives of New Jersey; he, a shoemaker, was born about 1802, is still living; she died in August, 1878. They had twelve children, ten of whom are living. Subject received a common school education,
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commenced life as a farmer, and was married the first time in Illinois, in 1859, to Mary A. Axtel, who died in 1872, and was a daughter of Thomas and Sarah (Robb) Axtel, of Penn- sylvania, who are both dead. In Illinois, in 1873, he took for his second wife Eunice Dilley, born in Pennsylvania in 1839, and daughter of William Dilley, born in Pennsylvania, and who still lives. There are four children by the first marriage, viz., Wilbert E., George T., Flora B. and Hattie, and three by the second wife. viz., Mary A. E., William H. and Janetta, all liv- ing. Subject is a member of the Methodist Protestant Church; a Republican; and moved from New Jersey to Illinois about 1863; from thence to this county in 1867; broke prairie; worked on the railroad, and, about 1870, bought forty acres at $10 per aere; he now owns 120 acres, valued at about $35 per acre. There is a small orchard, and forty aeres of brush and timber on the place. He has six first-class horses, eighteen yonng cattle and fifty hogs.
C. G. STARR, farmer, P. O. Carson, born in Ohio in 1823, son of Josiah and Mary (Cannon) Starr; he, a farmer and shoemaker, born in Connecticut in 1786, died in Ohio in 1862; she, born in Massachusetts in 1788. died in Ohio in 1874. They were the parents of eight children. Subject received a common school education; began life as a farmer, also as a cooper, and was married in Ohio, in 1850, to Susan Williamson, born in Ohio in 1833, daugh- ter of Palmer and Amy (Horton) Williamson, both born in New York; he in 1802, she in 1804. Mr. and Mrs. Starr have five children, viz., Ella, Warner, Palmer, Mabel and Lylburn. Subject's business has been farming, though he has been a cooper. a tanner. and also been in the saltpeter business as well as a Justiee of the Peace. He moved from Lake County, Ill., to this county in the spring of 1868. the trip having been made in a covered wagon, and oc- cupying three weeks. He moved onto his own land, having bought it two years previous for
$3 per acre; the same land is now worth $35 per acre. Mr. Starr is a Republican.
AUGUSTUS J. ST. CLAIR, farmer, P. O. Macedonia, born in Logan, Ill., October 21, 1856, a great-grandson of Gen. St. Clair, of Revolu- tionary fame, and son of Joseph N. and Melissa Ann (Briggs) St. Clair, he, a carpenter by trade, born in New York, died in Kansas July 4, 1872 ; she, born in Vermont in 1828, is still living ; they had eight children. all of whom are living. Subject received a common-school education ; began life as a farmer and married in Kansas, on January 1, 1880. Lenora C. Penn, born .in California, February 21, 1856, danghter of Josiah W. and Martha A. (Clark) Penn ; he, born in Tennessee June 21, 1827, died in Missouri, October 15, 1870 ; she, born in Ohio August 9, 1829, is still living. Mr. and Mrs. St. Clair have one child, Bertha, born July 25, 1881. Subject is a Christian and a Democrat; and moved from Illinois to Crawford County, Kan., in 1872, farming on his own land and trading in cattle until 1881, when he moved to to this county and shortly afterward rented the farm on which he now lives and which he contemplates buying soon. There are about fourteen acres of natural timber, 100 head of sheep and other stock on the place.
THOMAS SHEETS, farmer, P. O. Wheeler's Grove, born in Seneca County, Ohio, December 6, 1835, son of Greenberry and Marcella (Petti- cord) Sheets ; he, born in Maryland in 1788, emigrated to Ohio when about. twenty-seven years old, settled on a farm, improved it and remained there till his death, about 1847 ; she, born in Maryland in 1795, died in Ohio in 1877, and was mother of nine children, three of whom are living. Subject received a com- mon-school education ; began life at sixteen years of age as a stock trader, buying for W. H. Gibson, of Upper Sandusky, Ohio, for about four years ; emigrating to Belmont, Wright County, this State. working for various com- panies as a fur trader for about ten years,
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when he moved to Wheeler's Grove, this town- ship, where he bought eighty acres of land, but now owns 200 ; has devoted his attention largely to dealing in real estate. Subject is a Republican, a Freemason, has been a member of the Board of Supervisors and held various other township and county offices. Mr. Sheets married Miss Emma Dumond, of Wright County, Jowa, January 1, 1860, born in Lake County, Ind., July 22, 1841, daughter of Archey and Elizabeth (Martin) Dumond ; he, a farmer and saw-miller, born in Seneca County, Ohio, in 1803, emigrated to Michigan, thence to Indiana, thence to Iowa in 1855, where he owned a saw- mill and followed farming, died in 1857 ; she, born in Ohio about 1808, is still living in Harper County, Kan. Mr. and Mrs. Sheets have had six children, three of whom are living, viz., Llewellyn, Earl and Almira.
ABRAHAM SMITH, farmer, P. O. Wheeler's Grove, born in Macedonia Township, this coun- ty, on June 29, 1849, son of John and Sarah (Winegar) Smith ; he, born in Union County, S. C., in February, 1800, died in Iowa, February 25, 1870 ; she, born in Pennsylvania in 1801, died in this State November 15, 1880. They had four children, three of whom are living. Subject received a common-school education ; commenced life as a painter, following the trade for fourteen years, and was married in Montgomery County, Jannary 1, 1874, to Olive Malissa Knapp, born at Wheeler's Grove, this county, Angust 5, 1855, daughter of Edward W. and Charlotte Malissa (Otto) Knapp ; he, born in Michigan, in 1810, is still living ; she, in Ohio, in 1816, is still living. Mr. and Mrs. Smith have had four children, viz. : Janie Belle, born February 26, 1876 ; Mabel Grace, born December 29, 1877 ; Abraham Clifford, born March 16. 1879, died January 6, 1880 ; Paul George, born November 19, 1881. Sub- ject is a Republican, a Vigilante, a member of the L. D. S. ; commeneed about 1868 to farm on his father's place ; a year later, he returned
to his trade ; in 188I, he bought forty acres of land at $30 per acre, and now owns about sixty-five acres valued at $35 per acre ; there are twelve acres of natural timber, a fine young orchard and other fruits on the place. Hle is also engaged in the apiary business, having thirty-two stands of bees.
JOHN D. TEDRO, farmer, P. O. Wheeler's Grove, born in Westmoreland County, Penn , October 17, 1845, son of Leonard and Nancy (Carpenter) Tedro ; he, born in Somerset County, Penn., December 22, 1810, is still liv- ing ; she, born in Westmoreland County, l'enn., September 26, 1809, died June 23, 1847. They had eight children, six of whom are living. Subject received a common-school education ; commenced life as a farmer, and married Miss Sarah Stevick in Lee County, this State, No- vember 1, 1866 ; born in Harrisburg, Penn., December, 7, 1846, daughter of David and Mary (Zarker) Stevick ; he, born in Harris- burg, Penn., still living ; she, born in Harris- burg, l'enn., about 1828, died in this State in April, 1861. Mr. and Mrs. Tedro have had four children, viz. : Frank B., born August 16, 1867 ; Cora Bell, born June 7, 1869, died January 11, 1870 ; Alice N., born July 4, 1871 ; Judd, born October 17, 1880. Subject enlisted in Company L, First Iowa Cavalry, at West Point, this State, March 26, 1864 : was in sev- eral engagements, and was discharged February 16, 1866, at Austin, Texas. He moved with his parents from Pennsylvania to Lee County, this State, in 1855; in 1867, he moved to Mont- gomery County, this State, and rented land for two years ; moving in 1870 to this town- ship, bought eighty acres of land at $12.50 per acre, and now owns 160 acres valued at $30 per acre ; there is about one acre of fine young orchard, five acres of grove, consisting of maple. ash, cottonwood, sycamore, box-elder and elm ; there are also grape vines, a consid- erable amount of small fruits and one and one- quarter miles of osage and locust fence.
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L. D. WOODMANSEE, merchant, Wheeler's Grove, born in New Jersey March 21, 1833; he emigrated with his father's family to Ohio in 1843, and remained there till 1858, then emi- grated to Illinois, and settled in Logan Coun- ty, where he followed farming till coming to Towa in 1864, when he settled in Pottawattamie County, three miles north of Macedonia. He owned a portion of the land now occupied by the town of Carson in Pattawattamie County; from there he went into the mercantile business in okl Macedonia in 1866, but continued in charge of a farm of 160 acres south of Mace- donia; this business was continued for three years, when he sold out, and bought a grist- mill on East Nishnabotna River, in Montgomery County, Iowa. He continued in the milling business one year, then traded for a farm in Pottawattamie County, near Wheeler's Grove, on Farm Creek. He remained on that farm till 1875, and then opened the mercantile busi- ness at Wheeler's Grove, where he conducts mercantile, stock and agricultural business;
he owns 567 acres adjoining the town of Wheel- er's Grove. His father, John Woodmansee, was born in New Jersey in 1804; he emigrated to Shelby County, Ohio, in 1843; has always been a farmer, and still lives on the farm on which he first settled; his mother, Harriet (Platt) Woodmansee, was born in New Jersey about 1813. She is the mother of seven chil- dren, of whom six are living, three being in Pottawattamie County, Iowa. Mr. Woodman- see has been Township Clerk, and is now Jus- tice of the Peace. Mr. Woodmansee married Mary Niswanger, of Shelby County, Ohio, Feb- ruary 7, 1858; she was born April 18, 1836; her father, Samuel Niswanger, was born in Greene County, Ohio, in 1806; her mother, Nancy Scarf, was born in Greene County, Ohio, and died in 1842. Mr. and Mrs. Wood- mansee have three children-Hattie Alice, Laura E. and Edith S., whose ages are re- speetively twenty-three, twenty-two and four- teen. Mr. Woodmansee is a staunch Repub- lican.
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J. C. BARNARD, farmer, P. O. Snapp, was born October 18, 1820, in Huntsville, Ala .. and is the son of Timothy and Eliza- beth (Daniel) Barnard. Both of his parents were born in Massachusetts. Father died in 1829; mother in 1856. The family consisted of four brothers, one of whom was killed in the army. Mr. Barnard was educated in the 1 common schools of Illinois. Began life with farming, and has followed it most of the time since; however, he has been in the mercantile business for a short while at different times. He has voted the Republican ticket ever since Fort Sumter was fired on. In 1854, he was married to Miss Abbie Sanford, who was born ir Michigan, and is the daughter of Joel H.
and Anna MI. (Ragan) Sanford; father born in New York State, but mother came across the water from Ireland when she was a baby. Mr. and Mrs. Barnard both joined the Meth- odist Church in Warren, Ill., about the year 1856. Mr. Barnard is a member of the Masonic order, Lodge No. 36, Illinois; be- came a member in 1850. In 1821, he moved to Illinois with his parents. They settled in Franklin County, and lived there till he was about twenty-five years old, and then went to the north part of the State, settling in Jo Daviess County; bought about nine hundred acres of land, which had just been opened to the public. Here he followed farming, with the exception of a year or two, in which he
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was in business in Warren, Ill., till he came to his present farm in Hardin Township in 1865. Here he farmed till in the fall of 1877; then rented his place and went into the har- ness business in Avoca, Pottawattamie Coun- ty. Here he built up a good trade, having several men in his employ, but the health of family required a change, so, in the spring of 1881, he closed out business and spent the year in Colorado, and then returned to his farm. Mr. and Mrs. Barnard's lives have been saddened by the loss of five of their children. The oldest son, Albert, born De- cember 16, 1855, resides now at Avoca, Iowa, where he has been in the photograph busi- ness, but which. on account of ill health, he has had to give up; Charlie, born in 1860, died at four months old; Della, born in 1863. died at six months old; Gracie, born in 1875, died at four years old; Frank Barnard, after reaching the age of twenty-one years, died June 23,. 1879; and Clara Bell died April 22, 1880, in her seventeenth year. Frank and Clara Bell were both members of the Meth- odist Church at Avoca, as is also Eva, who was born in 1871, and is now at home with her parents. It has always been Mr. Bar- nard's aim to give his children a good edu- cation, and in this he would have succeeded if death had not intercepted. Mr. Barnard has a farm of 240 acres, well improved, an orchard of 600 apple trees, besides other fruits, all in bearing. Some of the apple trees have been bearing about nine years. Mr. Barnard started in life with but little property, but, by hard work and economy, he has accumulated quite a property, but is not in sufficient health to take charge of his farm, so he rents it. Mr. Barnard has had seven children born to him, two of whom are liv- ing-Albert L. and Eva; those dead are Frank, Charles, Clara Bell, Della and . Grace.
FREDERICK BOLLMEIER, farmer, P. O. Council Bluffs, was born in Prussia in 1850. Is the son of Frederick W. and Char- lotte (Mahler) Bollmeier, who were farmers, and lived and died in Germany, his mother dying in 1861, and father in 1880. Mr. Bollmeier has one brother and two sisters, one sister being in Pennsylvania, while the others remain in the old country. He was educated in his native country, and worked at different employments till he came to America in 1868; then worked three years in the rolling-mills in Pittsburgh, Penn. In 1871, he came to Cedar County, Iowa, and worked on a farm for some time, and then to Mills County, farming there for over a year, then to Pottawattamie County in 1873; worked on a farm by the month. In 1875, he bought a farm of eighty acres, and moved onto the same in 1876, and added to his farm till now he has 140 acres. Mr. Bollmeier does not take much interest in political affairs; has never voted for President but once, but then voted the Democratic ticket. In 1871, he was married to Miss Caroline Luker, who came from near his old home in 1868. Her parents are living in this country; also she has two brothers and one sister living in America. They have two boys and one daugh- ter. Mr. Bollmeier and wife were brought up in the Lutheran Church, and are members of the same church now. When they came to their farm in 1876, it was open prairie, but now the whole farm is under cultivation. and considerable improvements have been made. Mr. Bollmeier is doing general farm- ing, and has made all he has by his own in- dustry.
L. W. CARLISLE. farmer, P. O. Council Bluffs, was born in 1836 in Ohio, and is the son of John and Ann E. (Baldwin) Carlisle, who were also born in Ohio. He is the son of a farmer, and has two brothers and two
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sisters, all living in this county. He was educated in the common schools of his na- tive State, and began life as a farmer. In 1861, Mr. Carlisle enlisted with the Fifty- fourth Ohio Regiment, Second Brigade, Sec- ond Division of Fifteenth Army Corps. He continued in the army till 1865, when peace was again established He had one brother in the army for some time. Both came out with scarcely a scratch. I He has always voted the Republican ticket. In the year 1860, he was first married, to Cecilia Stuart, who was born in Ohio in 1838. Both of her parents died while she was quite small. His wife died in 1872. They have two children, both living in Pottawattamie County. Iowa. In 186S, he moved from Ohio to this State, and stayed here till 1879, farming most of the time. Then he went to Ohio, sold his farm on Silver Creek, this county, and stayed in Ohio till 1SS1, when he was again married. to Miss Louisa Standish, of Ohio, and came here to live, farming for the season on Mr. Barnard's farm, in Hardin Township. Mr. Carlisle's life has been one of quiet, it being spent mostly on a farm. In 1859 he took a trip to Pike's Peak, but soon returned.
H. A. DONER. farmer, P. O. Council Bluffs. One of the most successful young men in Hardin Township is Mr. H. A. Do- ner, who was born in Wayne County, Ohio, in 1850. He is the son of Henry and Aman- da (Johnson) Doner. He is one of six broth- ers and three sisters, one brother and one sis- ter being dead. In August, 1851, his father moved from Ohio to Northeastern Indiana. then, after a stay of eleven years, moved back to Ohio, going to Defiance County; lived there three years, then sold out and came to Jasper County, Iowa, and lived there till his death, in 1868. On account of these changes, Mr. Doner attended the common schools in Indiana. Ohio and Iowa. He has always fol-
lowed his father's occupation-that of farm- ing-and is a Republican in politics. His mother is now living in Mills County, Iowa. In 1871, he went to Bureau County, Ill. where he worked on a farm for about six years, and then came to Pottawattamie Coun- ty, Iowa, and bought, in partnership with his brother, a quarter-section of land, part of which was improved to some extent. They then divided the land, each taking an eighty- acre lot. Since that time, Mr. H. A. Doner has added to his farm, till now it consists of 320 acres, all under cultivation, well stocked and considerably improved. In 1SS2, he was married to Laura Swarts, of Potta- wattamie County. Her mother is dead, but her father lives in Mills County. She has one brother living, and one dead. Mr. Do- ner attributes his success in life to hard work, early and late, and a fixed determination to succeed.
HENRY HARTING, farmer, P. O. Coun- cil Bluff's, was born in Germany in 1842, son of Frederick and Mary (Lietsmith) Harting: he, a farmer and laborer, born in Germany, moved to this country about 1845, lived at York. Penn., till 1867, when he came to this county, and died August 17. 1878: she, also born in Germany, is still living in this town- ship, and was the mother of three sons and two daughters. Subject received his educa- tion in the common schools of York, Penn .; commenced life as a blacksmith, and married, in York, Penn., September 10. 1865, Rebecca Fahs, born in York County, Penn., daughter of John and Mary Fahs, of York, Penn, Mr. and Mrs. Harting are the parents of the fol- lowing children, viz. : Mary Jane. born April 20, 1866; Clara H., February 17, 1868: Charles Henry, December 10, 1869; Fannie F., July 20. 1578. Subject is a Democrat; worked for some time in a blacksmith shop; one year in the rolling-mills; seven years in
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the boiler shops; leaving the shop, he came here in 1870, and has followed farming since 1871. He came to America with his parents when about two and a half years old; lived in York, Penn,, until he came to this State to see his parents, who had come here some time before. In the following year, he brought his family out, farmed on his mother's place until 1877, when he removed to his present place, which, at that time, consisted cf eighty acres, since adding to it until now he has a farm of 280 acres, all under fence, and over half in cultivation. He has improved his farm, and has a small apple orchard and other fruits.
G. A. HEYWOOD, farmer, P. O. Council Bluffs, was born in Vermont December 25, 1835: is the son of Jonathan D. and Chris- tina (Mathewson) Heywood. His father was born in Massachusetts. He was a fars, er on the side of the Green Mountains, but is now living in Pottawattamie County. His mother is dead. Father joined the Mormons in Ver- mont, but mother's people were Quakers, and she would not join the Mormons. But his fa- ther sold out and followed the Mormons to Nauvoo, Ill., although it was against the will of his mother. There they had a farm and town property, and were living here at the time of the uprising of the mob which drove them out. One evening, while his father and mother were standing on the porch, two Mor- mons rode by armed, a strap by which the gun was carried broke and let the gun fall to the ground; in striking, it was discharged; one buckshot struck his mother in the neck, while another struck her in the back and glanced to the side. For some time they despaired of her life, but she finally recov- ered. Soon after this accident, the mob sur- rounded their house, took Mr. Heywood's fa- ther and sent him across the river to the Iowa side, and gave him warning that if he re-
turned they would kill him. He did return, however, was captured, taken to the temple, and, while one was sent for a warrant for his arrest, others watched him, but, before the warrant was procured, he escaped and crossed the river. One night, a few days after this, he again returned, to try and persuade his wife to go to Council Bluffs with the Mormons, but she refused to follow them any farther, so he returned, but afterward sent a neigh- bor's boy over to the Illinois side, and this boy induced Mr. G. A. Heywood and his two brothers to go down to the river, and there was a man in a skiff who asked them to take a ride, which they did; he rowed them across to the Iowa side, and there they found their father waiting for them. He took them in a wagon and drove off some distance, and left them with a Mormon family. A short time after this, he went back one night and got his little daughter, who was about six months old at that time. She was soon afterward re- turned to her mother, however. The father and three sons came to Western Iowa with the Mormons. Mr. Heywood remembers see- ing the Mormons make chain shot and fire it at the mob, with a cannon made from a cast- iron steamboat shaft, being cut into and one end filled up. His mother, after recovering from the wound, still lived in Nauvoo for about five years ; was then married, and moved to Eastern Iowa, and lived there till her death, about fifteen years after the time of the mob. Her daughter, who had been with her all the time, was now almost woman- grown, but did not know that she had any brothers. The mother had kept the place of her residence a secret from Mr. Heywood's father, for fear that he would try to get their daughter. Just before Mr. Heywood's moth- er's death, she told her daughter of her fa- ther and brothers, and told her where they were, and where some letters were which she
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