History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa. Containing a history from the earliest settlement to the present time biographical sketches; portraits of some of the early settlers, prominent men, etc., Part 68

Author: Keatley, John H; O.L. Baskin & Co., pub
Publication date: 1883
Publisher: Chicago, O. L. Baskin & co.
Number of Pages: 648


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J. D. FROHARDT, farmer, P. O. Council Bluffs, born in the State of Hanover, Germany, October, 8, 1810, son of J. D. and Mary (Frye) Frohardt, both born in the State of Hanover, Germany ; he, in 1761, died in February. 1833 ; she, in 1771, died in December, 1832. They had nine children. Subject received his educa-


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tion, principally, in the old country ; com- menced life as a grocer, but only stayed in the business for a short time when he commenced farming ; he married in Moniteau Co., Mo., April 15, 1845, Miss W. C. Kunning, born in the State of Hanover, Germany, October 30, 1827, daughter of J. H. and M. M. Knnning, both born in Hanover, Germany, about 1794. Mr. and Mrs. Frohardt have seven children, viz. : F. W., C. W., L. P., C. M., A. M., Ferdinand and Dora. Subject is a Methodist, a Republican. been School Director for several terms and holds the office now ; has followed agricultural pursuits nearly all his life; was a member of Company B, under Capt. Rice, of the Home Guards of Moniteau County, Mo. ; located in this county in 1866, moving from Moniteau County, Mo. ; was a leading member and of- ficer of the M. E. Church in Moniteau County ; is also greatly interested in the church in this township ; has always been an earnest worker in the cause of Christ, and is a leading and respected citizen. L. P., his second son, is teaching school in St. Louis County, Mo .; William, his oldest son, lives in Keg Creek Township, this county.


J. P. HESS, farmer, P. O. Council Bluffs, was born April 30, 1851, and raised in Lancas- ter County, Penn., and remained there till April, 1879; then came to Grundy County, Iowa, and first settled in Holland, but, not liking it there, he came on West, and after looking through Ne braska and the western part of Iowa, he bought his present place, and came to it in the fall of 1879. When first buying, he got only eighty acres, and paid $22.50 per acre. He has since added another eighty to his farm. His farm- ing is quite general now, but Mr. Hess bought it more for fruit and vegetable farm, and has already many grapevines and different fruit trees, and he finds his farm well adapted to fruit, it being high and well protected by tim- ber on the north, so frost does not strike him so early or so late as most other places. Mr. Hess


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was raised on a farm, and farming has been his business most of his life. He is a son of Rev. J. R. Hess, who is still farming in Lancaster, Penn, llis mother is also living. Mr. Hess has five brothers ; all are farmers, and live in Lancas- ter County. He was married, spring of 1872, to Miss Susan Konigmacher, who was also born in Pennsylvania. in Lancaster County, within two miles of Mi. Hess' birthplace. Mr. Hess has a family record which dates back to 1712, when Samuel Hess came from Switzerland to America, and settled in Pennsylvania, and land that was deeded to some of the original mem- bers of the family still remains in the same name. Other members of the Hess family have deeds given by William Penn. Mr. Hess' wife's ancestry in America dates back to about the same time, and have figured largely in the history of Lancaster County, Penn. Mr. Hess has three boys-John Jacob (born December 3. 1873), Eddie A. (born March 26, 1875), Adam K. (born February 12, 1881). He is a Republican in politics, and has always been. He received his education in the common schools of his native county. The Hess family is of the religious denomination called Men- nonites. They were originally a branch of the Waldenses. of Switzerland, afterward Prose- lytes of the church of Simon Menno, a reformer, who left the Catholic Church about the time of Luther. They left the old country on account of religious persecutions. When Mr. Hess eame here, there was no school in the Carter- ville School District, but he and Mr. Rich went before the School Board of Garner Township, and through their aid the schoolhouse was put in repair and opened for that district, which includes part of Lewis and part of Garner. Mr. Hess' children are of the eighth generation in America.


J. NORIN. farmer, P. O. Council Bluffs, was born in Sweden in 1849. In 1869, he came to America; came to Iowa, and was in Burlington l'or six months, and then came to Council


Bluffs, and ever since has made Pottawattamie County his home. After one year here, he went into the Deaf and Dumb Institute as chief en- gineer, having charge of their gas works as well as of the heating department. He remained in that for nine years, and then quit on account of health in the fall of 1880, and since that time has been on his farm. In 1875, he bought his farm, and has been having it improved since that time. His main business is hog-raising, and he has been very successful in his business. He also has his place well improved. Mr. Norin was married at the Deaf and Dumb In- stitute to Miss Anna E. Johnson ; she was also horn in Sweden. They were married in 1875. They have one child-a girl. His father died in the old country, but his mother came to America in 1879, and is now living with Mr. Norin. He is a Republican in politics, and his first vote was cast for President Hayes. Mr. N. was educated in Sweden in his native lan- gnage.


H. F. PLUMER, P. O. Council Bluffs, born in Hanover, Germany, in 1829, son of J. H. and Mary Plumer, both born in IFanover, Ger- many ; he, a farmer, born in 1793, is still liv- ing ; she, born in 1798, died in her sixty-first year ; they had six children. Subject received his education principally in the old country ; began life as a farmer and married in California Moniteau Co., Mo., August 20, 1849, Miss S Kinny, born in Ohio October 12, 1835. daughter of J. H. and Mary Kinny, both born in Hanover. Germany, and both dead. Mr. and Mrs. Plumer have thirteen children, viz. : Mary, John, William, Emeline, Josephine, Ferdinand, Ed- ward, Corniel, Oscar, Angusta, Tomie, Laura and Henry. Subject is a member of the Lutheran Church, a Democrat, filled the offices of School Director, Road Supervisor ; was first Director of Subdistrict No. 7, at that time be- longed to Kane Township ; came to this coun- ty in spring of 1851 ; built the mill in Council Bluffs, known as the "Crystal Mills." in the


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spring of 1870 ; has a large stock farm in Woodbury County, this State ; also owns some 800 acres of a stock farm in this county ; is one of the most prominent farmers in this sec- tion ; when he came to this county there were no Gentiles living in the county ; there was no settlement of any kind, except the Mormons, when he located in this township, in what is called the Plumer settlement ; the only stores that amounted to anything were two small buildings on or near where the Ogden House now stands ; came to America in 1840 ; lived about ten years in Monitean County, Mo., when he moved here and has resided ever since ; is one of the most enterprising farmers in the county, and has erected on his farm a fine barn 60x30 feet ; he sold, in the spring of 1882, ninety head of fine fat steers, which he had fed on his own farm, the average weight being 1,600 pounds.


JESSE M. SMITH, farmer, P. O. Council Bluffs, was born in Pennsylvania in 1827, and remained there till he was sixteen years old, and then went to Indiana, in the vicinity of Indian- apolis, and remained there till 1863, when he moved to Iowa, settling in Harrison County, where he remained two years, and then came to Pottawattamie County, and has been here since in different places, and has been on his present farm for about eight years. When buying his home place, he had to pay $10 per acre, there being no improvements whatever. He has since been ditching-making over two miles of ditches on his place, and in that way has re- claimed all of his land. His other improve- ments are also good, having a fine residence and barns. Mr. Smith's farm how consists of 400 acres, all under fence and part in cultiva- tion, the remainder in pasture and meadow. His farming is corn and stock-raising. He was educated in Pennsylvania in the common schools. He was married in Indiana, abont 1854, to Miss Hannah Ballard. The second time he was married to Miss Nancy Wright,


also in Indiana, in Indianapolis, in March, 1862. He has one son by first wife. He is a Republican in politics. Belongs to the Church of God.


WILLIAM WRAY, farmer, P. O. Council Bluffs, was born in England in 1833, in Lin- colnshire; came to America in 1851; lived in Indiana till 1858 ; he came to Iowa, and set- tled in Pottawattamie County, and has been here ever since, except three years he was in Montgomery County. Ind. In 1869, he moved to Lewis Township, and has been here ever since. Mr. Wray was educated in England. Ile has followed farming most all his life, but freighted across the plains for about three years-from the Missouri River to Denver and different mountain towns. On account of the Indians getting bad, he quit in 1864 or 1865. Mr. Wray's father, Benjamin Wray, died in England, but his mother came to America, and died in Union County, Iowa. He has six brothers and two sisters, all in Iowa. His first farm. in Lewis Township, was in Section 14, and had been improved some by the Mormons, but not enough to help it much. He now lives on Section 13. on the bank of Horseshoe Lake. Till the spring of 1881, the channel of the Mis- souri River was within eight or ten rods of the house, but it has changed till now it is about three miles distant. He was married, in 1865, in Union County, Iowa, to Miss Sarah Barton; she was born in England. They have two chil- dren dead, but none living. He is a Democrat in politics.


I. S. WRIGHT, farmer, P. O. Conncil Bluff's, was born in North Carolina February 23. 1816; moved into Putnam County, Ind., when abont ten years old; came to Iowa in the spring of 1867; settled in Mills County, and remained till he came to Pottawattamie County February 10, 1875, and came to his present place, which he had bought the year before. His farm con- sists of about three hundred and fifty acres on what is called the "Bench." and then he has


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abont one hundred acres on the river. Of his home farm, about two hundred and sixty aeres are in enltivation- the remainder in grass and pasture. The K. C .. St. J. & C. B. R. R. runs through his farm, and has a station near his house called Wright, in honor of Mr. Wright. The road was located here about five years ago, when the railroad had to change part of its track on account of the river washing out its former traek. Ilis farming is mostly corn- raising. Mr. Wright was married, January, 1840, to Miss Docia Mills; she was born in Kentucky, but moved to Indiana when young. They have two children living-one in Colora- do. now Mrs. Elizabeth Smith. Their son, T. A. Wright, lives on the farm ; is also mar- ried. He is Democratic in politics. He is a member of the I. O. O. F. His business has been farming most all his life; however, while in Putnam County, Ind., he was in the mer- chandise business for about five years, and was also County Treasurer in Putnam County a term or two, besides other offices.


WILLIAM WEIDNER, farmer and stock- raiser. P. O. Council Bluffs, born in Butler County. Ohio, June 21. 1821, son of J. and Elizabeth (Snyder) Weidner. both born in Sun- bury, Penn .; he. a farmer, in 1780, died in Butler County, Ohio. in 1847 : she, in 1783.


died in Butler County, Ohio, in 1831. They had six children, four boys and two girls. Sub- ject received his education, principally, on Elk Creek, Butler County, Ohio: commenced life as a farmer and stock-raiser, and married his first wife, M. A. Brelsford, in Butler County, Ohio. in 1847, daughter of Benjamin and Jane Brels- ford ; married his second wife, Hannah K. Marsh, in Shelby County, Ind., in 1858. daugh- ter of John and Sarah Marsh. Mr. Weidner's first wife had four children, viz. : Benjamin, Elizabeth J., A. D. and Katie Ann. and his sec- ond wife's children are John W., died February 5, 1882, just twenty-four years old ; Samnel, Ida May and Mineola. Subject is a member of the Methodist Church, a Democrat, a Free- mason, an Odd Fellow, served as Constable in Shelby County, Ind. ; been Township Treas- urer ; moved from Butler County, Ohio. in 1849, to Shelbyville, Ind., engaging in the stock business ; then moved to Clarinda, Page Co., this State, where, in 1867, he lost his sec- ond wife ; from there he moved to this town- ship, engaging in the stock business, which he still follows; has been handling stock for J. T. Stewart for four years ; has been a Free- mason for forty years, and is one of the oldest 'Masons in the State.


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JOIIN M. CHIPMAN. farmer, P. O. Wal- nut, born in Waukesha County, Wis., Novem- ber 4. 1851, son of John B. and Maria (Chil- son) Chipman, both born in Genesee County, N. Y .; he, in 1812. is still living ; she died March 4. 1865. and was the mother of three children, viz., Lysander, Louisa and Carrie. Subjeet received a common school education, attending school from the age of six years until he was fifteen, when he commenced life


as a farmer, and married in Tama County. this State, November 27. 1872, Sarah Craig, born in Westmoreland County. Penn .. April 19, 1852. daughter of John and Elizabeth (Wilie) Craig, both born in Westmoreland County, Penn., he in 1808, and she in 1815. Mr. and Mrs. Chipman have three children, viz., Vernon L., Emma L. and Cora M. Subjeet is a Republican; has filled the offices of School Director and Assessor, and at the age of six-


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teen he started business on his own account, working for his father and other parties; when eighteen years of age. he moved to Tama Coun- ty, Iowa, farming for himself and others; in 1875. he moved to this township, where he purchased eighty acres of land, afterwards add- ing 160 acres to it, and now has one of the fin- est farms in the township.


CHRISTIAN DERMYRE, farmer, P. O. Lewis, born in Erie County, N. Y., September 26. 1830, son of Frederick and Magdalene (Bower) Dermyre, both born in Germany, he, a farmer. died in January, 1875; she, born in 1802, died February, 1873. They were the parents of Philip, Frederick, Daniel, Christian, Petro, Samuel, Frank. Magdalene. Susan, Christina and Elizabeth. Subject received a common school education; commenced life as a farmer, and married in Erie County, N. Y., October, 1854, Christina Schwingde, born in Buffalo, N. Y., October 5, 1836, daughter of Frederick and Christina (Smith) Schwingde. The following children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Dermyer, Frederick, born July 12, 1859, died February 8, 1862; Sarah, born August 13, | he purchased 240 acres, and has since added 1861, died September 30, 1862; George L., born 230 acres. July 1. 1865; Emma L., born October 10, 1868; Snsan, born June 19, 1871; Caroline L., born September 12, 1873; Ezra F., born January 11, 1876; Daniel D., born September 16, 1878, and Franklin, died September 25, 1881. Subject is a Republican, a member of the Evangelical Society; and when twenty-four years old he started life on his own account, purchasing , sixty-four acres of land in his native town; he farmed it for about six years, when he rented his farm and went to Illinois, where he pur- chased eighty acres of land in Lee County, en- larging this farm by buying 120 acres more, and living upon it until 1876, when he sokdl and moved into this township ; owns 400 acres of as fine land as there is in the township.


JOHN A. FRANK, farmer, P. O. Walnut, born in Switzerland December 18, 1845, son of


Joseph and Ursula (Plaz) Frank, both born in Switzerland; he, a farmer, died October 6, 1873; she is still living, and is the mother of five children, viz., Marin, Joseph, John A., Ursula and Margaret. Subject received a com- mon school education: commenced life as a farmer, and was married in La Fayette County, Wis .. in September, 1870, to Elizabeth Hart, born in Allegheny County, Penn., February 6, 1842, daughter of Augustus and Kate Hart. Mr. and Mrs. Frank have two children, viz., Joseph, born April 20, 1872; Jessie, born Au- gust 1, 1876. Subject is a Catholic, a Repub lican; is School Director; has been Township Trustee and Road Supervisor, and emigrated from Switzerland in 1866, landing in Washing- ton, D. C., where he lived for two years, being engaged in the brewing and confectionery bus- iness; went to Wisconsin; worked on the farm as a hired hand for two years, when he, with another party, leased 160 acres of land, and worked it for two years with joint tenant, when he leased 250 acres, and worked it alone for three years; then moved to this township, where


HENRY B. JACK, farmer, P. O. Walnut, born in Licking County, Ohio, April 14, 1834, son of John and Delilah (Dean) Jaek; he, a farmer, born in Pennsylvania November 7, 1797, died April 28, 1880; she, born in Mary- land March 31, 1788, was the mother of ten children, viz., Perry, Mary A., Cynthia, Emily, James, Delilah, Charles H., Hngh, John W., and Henry B., our subject, who received a com- mon school education in Licking County, Ohio; commencing at the age of seven, he continued to attend school more or less until he was twen- ty; commenced life as a farmer, and married, in Moundsville, Mo., June 7, 1870, Ella E. Kellogg. born in Litchfield, N. Y., December 21, 1845, daughter of Nathaniel and Sarah S. Kellogg; he, born in Paris, N. Y., August 23, 1797: she, born in Westfield, Mass .. November


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22, 1804. Mr. and Mrs. Jacks have had seven children, viz., an infant son, born December 5, 1871, died December 11, 1871; John N, born May 30, 1873, died April 3, 1878; Henry H., born May 26, 1875; Sadie D., born May 24, 1877: Lillie E., born January 22, 1879; Charles B., born September 17, 1880; Viola E., born April 25, 1882. Subject is a Republican; a farmer all his life; holds the office of Distriet Township Secretary; enlisted in Company C, Twenty-second Iowa Volunteer Infantry, on August 2, 1862, for three years. When he was thirty-three years old, he left home, pur- chased 180 acres of land in Jasper County, this State, but previous to this, and when he was eighteen years old. he worked for his father for wages; worked his Jasper County farm un- til 1874, when he sold out and moved to this township, where he purchased eighty acres of wild prairie land, which he broke up and im- proved; sold out in 1866; purchased 160 acres in Section 16; sold out in 1877; has since lived on a leased farm, and is one of the first settlers in this township.


ALLEN McDANNEL, farmer, P. O. Walnut, born in Knox County, Tenn., February 16, 1834, son of John and Nancy (Dail) MeDannel; he, a farmer, born in Knox County, Tenn; she, born in Greene County, Tenn., died in Knox County, Tenn., in 1839. They had five chil- dren, viz., James, Allen, Polly Ann, Sarah E. and Naney. Subject is a self-taught man, never having attended a school; commenced life as a farmer, and married in Jasper County, this State, December 14, 1854, Sarah Murphy, born in Knox County, Tenn., March 26, 1838, daughter of William and Sarah Murphy, both natives of Ireland. Subject enlisted, in 1863, in Company L, Ninth Iowa Cavalry, for three years, or during the war, and was a wagon- master. He is a Methodist, a Democrat; and when (nite young his father. who was a planter, lost his property, and in 1852, subject was thrown upon his own resources; emigrated to


Iowa, working on farms until he saved enough money to buy forty acres of land in Jasper County, this State; improved it; sold out and purchased forty-five aeres in same county; sold out in 1871; moved to what was then known as Knox Township, but is now Lincoln, in this county, where he bought eighty acres of land, living upon it for a short time; he sold out and purchased 144 acres of land in northeast quar- ter of Section 3, Range 38, Lincoln Township, where he now lives. Although not having an opportunity of attending school, he does every- thing in his power to promote education, and agitated the school question in the eastern di- vision of his township. Mr. and Mrs. McDan- nel have had fourteen children, viz., William F., born January 21, 1856; George W., born Jan- uary 12, 1857; Viola, born March 6, 1858; Montgomery, born in 1862; Robert A., born November, 1862, died November, 1864; Mor- rell C., born December 1, 1866; Jessie, born April 3, 1868; Dennis M., born November 24, 1870; Evylin, born December 16, 1869, died January 16, 1870; Walter A., born September 21, 1872, died January 28, 1874; Jennie N., born January 28, 1874; one who was never named; Sarah, born January 1, 1877, and Grace M., born March 16, 1879.


LEMUEL I. POPE, farmer and mechanic, P. O. Lewis, born in Shelby County, Ind., Sep- tember 18, 1825, son of Harvey and Mary (Drake) Pope; he, a farmer and mechanic, born in Connecticut, died in the fall of 1851 or 1852; she, born in Ohio, died in the winter of 1854 or 1855. They had eight children, viz., Henry Jefferson, Lemuel 1., Harvey D., Hannah K., Mary H., William W., Milton and Lottie. Sub- ject received a common school education, at- tending school when he was about ten years old; he afterward went to a commercial school in Cincinnati; commenced life as a farmer, and married, in Cincinnati, June, 1851, Elizabeth Stone, born in Michigan August 3. 1831, dangh- ter of Edward and Ann Stone. both born in


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England. Mr. and Mrs. Pope have ten children,, viz., Lollie, Emma, Jerome, Millard, Alonzo, Forest, Ella, Ulysses, James and Joseph. Sub- ject is a llard-Shell Baptist, an Independent in politics; is a descendant of Lord Williams; started in life with nothing but his strong arms and equally strong will; left home when twenty- one years old; engaged in the mercantile busi- ness in his native State for two years, afterward going to Cincinnati, Ohio, as salesman for a wholesale grocery store there, remaining two years in the position, when he returned to his father's farm, working there for one year, and on other farms for about three years, when he moved to Illinois, where he rented a farm for a year, when he moved to Missouri, taking a home- stead of eighty acres, living there for six years, when he sold out and moved to Marion County, this State, where he worked different farms; also engaged in coal mining, and at the expiration of eight years, he moved to Wright Township,


this county, and the next spring, moved into this township, purchasing 400 acres of land.


ELIAS YOUMAN, farmer, P. O. Walnut, born in Albany County, N. Y., May 14, 1824, son of Bartholomew and Sally (Saulter) You- man; he, a farmer, born in Greene County, N. Y., died about the year 1862; she, born in New York State, died in 1874, and was the mother of nine children, viz., Samuel, Hannah, Betsy, Jolin, Elias, Stephen, David, Jesse and Am- brose. Subject received a common school education; commenced life as a farmer, and married in Brunswick, Ohio, September 19, 1848, Sarah A. Barber, born in New York State April 28, 1831, daughter of Henry and Rebecca Barber, both natives of New York. Mr. and Mrs. Youman are the parents of the following children, viz., Orrin, born May 1, 1851; Mary E., born May 1, 1853; Adelina, December 12, 1861; Clement, March 12, 1868. Subject is a Democrat, and was Township Clerk in 1880.


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A. J. ANDERSON, grain merchant and ' old farm in Grove Township, Pottawattamie farmer, Carson, was born in La Salle County, County. Subject's mother was born in Norway January 1, 1814, and emigrated to America with her father's family (said to be the first Norwegian family to come to America) and who became permanent settlers. She is living with the subject of this sketch, her only sur- viving child. Mr. Anderson began life on his own responsibility in California on a farm; there he remained but a year or two, when he «migrated to lowa, settling in Grove Township, Pottawattamie County, on a farm, where he was engaged exclusively in farming and stock deal- ing till he entered the grain business in Car- son, erecting an elevator, which he owns and operates in connection with his farm, He first bought a partial interest in the old home- Ill., April 12, 1842. His father. Jacob Ander- son. was born in Norway in June, 1807: emigrated to America when eighteen years okt in 1819; settled first in New York, where he remained till going to Illinois in the year after the Black Hawk war. He settled in La Salle County. where he remained till the fall of 1848, then removed to Iowa. settling in Grove Township, Pottawattamie County, on a farm ! of 680 acres, which he improved; he remained there till the spring of 1854, when he crossed the plains with ox teams to Napa County, Cal., where he lived on a farm till his death, May 4, 1864. The family remained in California till 1868, when the mother of our subject, with two children, returned to Iowa, and settled on the stead of 680 acres in Grove Township, Potta-


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wattamie County, then his mother's interest; since then he has added land until the farm now contains 1,000 acres. This farm consists of what is known as Wheeler's Grove, in Grove Township, and is very valuable. There being 200 acres of good timber land. Mr. Anderson lives in Carson; he married Miss Melissa Broadhurst of Napa County, Cal., June 24, 1866. She was born in Berrien County, Mich., i January 2, 1846; her father Joseph Broadhurst, ; born in Ohio in May, 1818, lives in California; her mother, Nancy (Gorham) Broadhurst, born in Indiana June 10, 1826, died March 9, 1854. Mr. Anderson is a member of the church of Latter Day Saints; he is no partisan in politics.




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