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WILLIAM SPEARS, farmer, P. O. Min- den, was born in Mercer County, Penn., Sep-
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tember 3, 1836. He is the son of George and Sarah Ann (Churchfield) Spears. His father was a blacksmith, born in Edinburgh, Scot- land, in 1801, and died in Florence, Neb., in 1846. The mother of our subject was born in Westmoreland County, Penn., in 1812, and died in this county. The parents had eight children -four sons and four daughters. Our subject received his education in Illinois, Nebraska and this county. He left his na- tive State and went to Illinois in 1839, with his parents. He lived in that State till 1846, when he went to Nebraska, where he lived till he came to this county, in 1848. In 1865, he purchased land in Harrison County, this State, and sold the same in 1871. He now has 320 acres, part of which is under cultiva- tion. He has one of the finest homes in the county, and engaged in general farming. He has been Justice of the Peace, Township Clerk and Township Trustee. He was mar- ried, in Garner Township, this county, May 27. 1863, to Luvinia Stoker, born in this county November 20, 1846. She is the daughter of Eller and Margaret (Judd) Stoker. Mr. and Mrs. Spears have had the following children, of whom there are five living-Andrew, Agnes J., Lucretia, Mary Jane, Daisy Ann, Frank, Lizzie, Myrtle, Lou- isa and William H. Our subject is a Gran- ger, and in politics a Greenbacker.
J. F. STRAHL, farmer, P. O. Neola, was . born in Cedar County, Iowa, February 14, 1848. He is the son of Eli and Sarah A. (Edwards) Strahl, both natives of Ohio, he born in 1815 and she in 1822. Both the parents are at present living near Iowa City, Johnson County, this State. They had seven children-three boys and four girls. The fa- ther was a farmer. Our subject began life at farming. When only sixteen years old. he went into the army, and remained till the close of the war. He afterward contracted
for the carrying of the United States mail, from Albany, Mo., to Leon, Decatur County, this State. He has also been in the livery business in Iowa City, and the grocery busi- ness in Walnut, this county. He was mar- ried, in Cedar County, this State, March 6, 1870, to Eliza Crook, born in Indiana Octo- ber 18, 1852. She is the daughter of Michael and Mary (Hollingsworth) Crook, he born in Virginia in 1823, and she in Ohio in 1820. Mr. and Mrs. Strahl have had four children -Florence (deceased), Walter, Nellie (de- ceased) and Bertie. Our subject came to this county in 1871, and settled near Wal- nut. He bought eighty acres of wild land at $7.25 per acre. He improved this, and afterward sold it for $20 per acre. He then purchased eighty acres of improved land, paying $18 per acre, in the same township (Layton). He sold this at the same price that he paid for it. He then bought land in Harrison County, this State, and at one time owned three farms in that county. He also owned a place in Kansas, and one in Linn County, this State. He came to Minden Township in 1882, and purchased 120 acres at $21 per acre, and has since made many improvements. He is engaged in general farming. He belongs to the Good Templars, and also to the Grand Army of the Republic. In politics, he is a Republican.
JOCHIM STUHR, farmer, P. O. Minden, was born in Holstein, Germany, July 23, 1831. He is the son of Jochim and G. (Plagmann) Stuhr, both natives of Holstein, Germany. His father was a farmer. born March 24, 1791, and died in his native town in November, 1866. The mother of our sub- ject was born January 27. 1793, and died in her birth-place in February, 1876. They had five children-two boys and three girls -of whom our subject is the only one liv- ing. He received his education in Germany,
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and has been a tiller of the soil since 1852. He was married, in Holstein, Germany, Oc- tober 13, 1852, to Miss A. Arp, born in that place. She is the daughter of Hans and Becke (Ladehoff) Arp, both natives of Hol- stein, Germany, he born January 8, 1804, and she in 1806. In 1850, our subject en- listed in the Schleswig-Holstein army, artil- lery, and was at the battle of Idstadt. He came to Minden Township July 24, 1881, and, in the fall of the same year, purchased 280 acres of land at $24 per acre. It is in a good state of cultivation. He engages in general farming. His children are twelve in number-Edward, Emma, Agnes, Johannes, Anansy, Hugo, Gustav, Anna, William, Charles, Gretchen and Minnie. Mr. Stuhr is a member of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, and in politics is a Democrat. Mr. Stuhr has held the offices of Justice of the Peace, County Commissioner, Assessor of In- surance, besides several minor offices.
JOHN P. STUHR, merchant, Minden, was born in Schleswig, Germany, January 12, 1844. He is the son of John and Anna (Car- stensen) Stuhr, both natives of Schleswig, Germany. His father was born in 1813, and is a farmer. His mother was born in 1815. Both the parents are at present living in Har- rison County, this State. They had eight children-four sons and four daughters. Our subject received a good education in his native country, and also attended school in Blue Grass, Scott County, this State. He began life as a farmer, and was engaged a short time in that occupation near Daven- port, this State, to which place he came Sep- tember 12, 1863 He went to St. Louis in the following year, but returned shortly after. ward. September 6, 1864, he enlisted in the Eighth Iowa Infantry, Company B. under Gens. J. A. Smith and Canby. He fought in the battles of Spanish Fort, Mobile, and
was wounded in the knee by a bayonet in an engagement in Arkansas, near Island No. 13. He came to Minden in 1875, and, August 1, 1881, he bought the store of Bartell & Co., and started in the general merchandise busi- ness, in which he has since been engaged. He has been a Township Assessor in this county, and a Road Supervisor in Scott Coun- ty, this State. He was married, in Daven- port, May 26, 1866, to Amelia Cornelius, born in Germany October 28, 1846. She is the daughter of Marcus and Anna (Mul- ler) Cornelius, both natives of Germany. Mr. and Mrs. Stuhr have six children-four boys and two girls-Alvina A., Julius, John M. R., Adelia H., William and Walter. Our subject is a member of the Lutheran Church, and also belongs to the Knights of Pythias. In politics, he is a Republican.
JAMES TATE, farming. P. O. Minden. was born in County Tyrone, Ireland, on the 13th of July, 1814; his father, John Tate, born in the city of Glasgow, Scotland, in 1758, and removing to Ireland in 1770, was married to Ann Erwin in 1794. In 1817, our subject, then a boy of three summers, came to Canada with his parents, who settled in Newcastle District, Clark Township. His early education was much neglected. The school was very poor. "the master having more whip than brains." But the active mind of the youth drew a wonderful culture from nature itself, and a seemingly immacu- late inspiration was drawn even from that old spelling book in the log-cabin schoolhouse. Mr. Tate remained with his parents till his father's death, in 1834, and spending two more years on the farm, then entered the army, under Capt. Wilmot, to put down Papineau and Mackenzie's rebellion. He remained there but three months. when he took his leave, and moving to Haldimand County, was engaged in the lumber business
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for the next four years. On the 18th of March, 1840, James Tate was married to Ann Evans. She was the daughter of Edward and R. J. Evans, and niece to the founder of Evansville, Ind., on the Ohio, and was born in County Wicklow, Ireland, May 17, 1815. Mr. Tate prosecuted his industries as lum- berman and farmer in Canada until 1856, when he removed with his wife and six chil- dren to the United States and settled in Winneshiek County. Iowa, where he again resumed his occupation as a farmer. There he labored on judiciously in his little home as fortune looked with favor upon them. Two more children were added to the num- ber as time went on, and the little home im- proved. The clay fields gave forth their re- ward for his diligent labor. He met with no reverse of fortune until about 1869, when his barn was burned. On the 23d of March, 1871, his wife died, after a long sickness, and broke the union of a happy home. But heavy as was the blow, it did not break that spirit which had a hope in heaven. The ties of friendship and love which had been woven in the home held together. At Postville, De- cember 15, 1872, Mr. Tate was married to his second wife-Miss B. Cooper. She is the daughter of John and Mary Cooper, and was born in Canada on the 23d of December, 1847. The following winter, Mr. Tate met with a heavy loss by the burning of his house and some considerable household goods. This was repaired as best it could be. He remained there till the spring of 1874, when he removed with his wife and family to his present home, in Pottawattamie County, hav- ing obtained a location the previous year. His buildings were the first erected in the fertile valley of the Middle Silver, which winds its way through happy fields toward the southwest.
W. S. WHITE, farmer, P. O. Neola, was born in Kentucky in 1829; he came to this State in 1871, settling where he now lives; he cultivates about seventy-five acres of land, which was, at the time of his purchasing it, unimproved, and cost about $10.75 per acre. He is the son of Joseph and Mary (Jones) White; his father was a farmer, born in Delaware in 1803, moved to Missouri in 1849 and died in 1854. The mother of our sub- ject was born in Kentucky in 1802, and was the mother of eight children-five sons and three daughters. She died in Missouri in 1854, within twenty-five days of her hus- band's death. Our subject received his edu- cation in the common schools of Indiana. He went to Missouri and began life for him- self by taking up a claim and farming it. He afterward sold it, and went to Nebraska, where he lived for six years. He returned to Missouri and from there to this State. He married his first wife -- Alice Linville-in Missouri in 1853. His second marriage oc- curred in the same State in 1862, when he was wedded to Sarah J. McDowell, born in Missouri in March, 1843. She is the danghter of Matthew and Jane (Hughes) McDowell. Our subject has six children- Maggie, Joseph, John, Dolly, Nora and Iva Myrtle. He votes the Democratic ticket.
J. H. YODER, Postmaster and merchant. Minden, was born in Somerset County, Penn., September 6, 1853; he is the son of Benedict and Sarah (Miller) Yoder, both na- tives of Somerset County, Penn., he born August 20, 1817. she born November 20. 1825. Both of the parents are now living in their native county. They had twelve chil- dren-six boys and six girls. Our subject received a good education in the common schools, and afterward attended the Commer- cial College at Pittsburgh, Penn., after which
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he taught school in several places in Penn- sylvania and this State. From 1875 to 1880, he, with his brother, kept a store in Amish, Johnson Co .. Iowa. In the latter year, he came to Minden and opened a general store, which he has kept ever since. He is now Postmaster at Minden, which office he has filled since February 2, 1882. He was for- merly Assistant Postmaster at Amish. He
was married, in Council Bluffs, June 9, 1881, to Septima I. Shaff, born in Pleasant Hill, Johnson Co., Iowa, April 10, 1854; she is the daughter of H. N. and Anna Shaff, he a native of Canada and she of Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Yoder are members of the Evangelical Lutheran Church. In politics, he is a Re- publican.
NEOLA TOWNSHIP.
MRS. BETTY BARDSLEY, Neola, was born in Cheshire, England. March 26, 1820, daughter of Charles and Ellen (Hibert) Brad- ley, natives of England; he. born in Febru- ary, 1794, was a miner and farmer in Eng- land. and died December 23, 1878: she, born about 1800, was the mother of ten chil- dren, of whom three came to America. Mrs. Bardsley was first married, in England, Au- gust 29, 1841, to John Handbury, born in England February 8, 1814. They came to America in 1850, and to Council Bluffs April 15 of that year. Mr. Handbury was engaged in farming near Macedonia for eighteen months, when he died, leaving his wife and four children-Elizabeth, David, Ann and Joseph E. Mrs. Handbury kept herself and children until her second marriage, which occurred July 17, 1852. Mr. Bardsley, her second husband, was born in England July 21, 1800, and came to America in 1850, set- tling at Highland Grove, where he lived at the time of his marriage to Mrs. Handbury. One year after their marriage, they moved onto the farm where Mrs. Bardsley now lives. There, from 1854 till his death, Mr. Bardsley followed farming. He was Justice of the Peace several years. He died December 20, 1860, from injuries received by the kick of a
cow. Mrs. Bardsley has by her second hus- band four children-John J., Charles B., Ellen and Thomas R .; the latter is at home: Charles B. owns a farm of eighty acres ad- joining the home farm. The latter place con- sists of 240 acres in one body, situated on Bardsley's Creek, five miles west of Neola. Mrs. Bardsley has one son in the mercantile business in Neola, and one keeping a res- taurant. Charles B. was married, April 1, 1880, to Miss M. J. Spencer. James Ward, the husband of Mrs. Bardsley's eldest daugh- ter, died in the service of his country in 1864.
AUGUST BOCK, farmer, P. O. Neola, was born in Prussia September 4, 1844, son of Fred and Christina (Stephen) Bock: he, born in Germany about 1820, was a day la- borer, and died there when our subject was about nine years old: she, born in Germany about 1823, came to America in 1866, now lives in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Mr. Bock is one of five children and was educated in Ger- many. He has supported himself since nine years of age. While in his native country, he worked at farming. After coming to this country, he worked in a brewery in Council Bluffs for several years, then engaged in ag- ricultural pursuits. In 1878, he purchased 140 acres of raw prairie, which is now in
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good cultivation. Mr. Bock was married, in Mills County, Iowa, in September, 1869, to Annie Frank. born in Germany in 1852, daughter of William and Anna (Apple) Frank, natives of Germany, both living with subject, and both hale and hearty, notwithstanding that he is seventy-two and she sixty-nine years of age. Mr. and Mrs. Bock have four children-William, August, Alvena and Mary. They are members of the Lutheran Church.
C. D. DILLIN, lumber, grain and coal merchant, Neola, was born in Knox County, Ohio, in 1842. His father, Israel Dillin, was born in Pennsylvania about 1791, and moved to Ohio at an early date. He was en- gaged in farming and merchandising, and also bought horses and drove them across the Alleghany Mountains to New York City. He emigrated from Ohio to Iowa in 1850, and settled at Marengo, Iowa Co., Iowa, where he engaged in farming until he went to Cal- ifornia, where he died in 1856. Subject's mother, Mary (Hall) Dillin, was born in Pennsylvania in 1795. She moved from Pennsylvania to Ohio with her husband, and from there to Iowa, where she died in 1851. Subject was educated in the common schools of Iowa. At the age of fifteen years, he went to Council Bluffs. Iowa, and was clerk in a drug store from 1857 to 1858: was also clerk in a drug store at Crescent City, for Johnson & Blake. In the spring of 1859, he went to Marengo: attended school and clerked till the opening of the war, then he enlisted in the Seventh Iowa Infantry; was first pri- vate, then Corporal. then First Lieutenant, then Captain. He served four years, nine- teen months of which were spent as fol- lows: Nine months in Libby Prison, four at Macon, two in Charleston and four in Co- lumbia. On returning from the army in the fall of 1865, Mr. Dillin married Miss Lucy Crenshaw. After this, he served two years
as Deputy Treasurer in Iowa County, Iowa. and then one year was spent in looking after milling interests; then for about five years he was Deputy Clerk of Iowa County, Iowa. He moved to Pottawattamie County in 1873, located where he now is, and started the leading grain, lumber and coal business of Neola. Mrs. Dillin was born in April, 1845, in Jackson County, State of Indiana. Her father, Josephus Crenshaw, was born in 1811, in Indiana, and now lives at Marengo, Iowa. Her mother, Nancy L. (Reddick) Crenshaw. died when Mrs. Dillin was but two years old. Mr. and Mrs. Dillin have five children-Jo- seph I., John W., Cora B., Nellie R. and Hugo. Mr. Dillin owns a farm of 135 acres, bordering on the south edge of the town of Neola, and an elevator with a capacity of 10,- 000 bushels. Mr. Dillin is a Republican.
DRUSILLA DOWNS, P. O. Neola, was born in Kentucky Febru ry 3, 1827, daughter of William and Rebecca Ann (McGuire) John- ston. Her father was born in Virginia: emi- grated to Kentucky, where he was married; from Kentucky he went to Ohio, thence to Illinois, where he died. Mrs. Downs' mother was born in Kentucky, and died while the former was quite young. Mr. Asa Downs was born March 3, 1816, in Indiana, son of Ezekiel and Charlotte (Rowlands) Downs, natives of Indiana. Mr. Asa Downs began life as a farmer in Illinois, where he re- mained twelve years: then, in 1851, he came to Iowa and bought a claim near Weston, of Absalom Smith, a Mormon. This farm is still owned by Mrs. Downs. When the farm was first purchased. there was a saw and grist mill upon it, which was among the first mills of the county, and it was known as the Downs Mill, and was situated on Mosquito Creek, ten miles from Council Bluffs. The mill was destroyed by high water in 1852. Mr. and Mrs. Downs were married, in Illinois, De-
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cember 7, 1845. They had thirteen children, one of whom is dead. They are Mary E., born January 1. 1844; William, October 7, 1848; Emily, April 7, 1849; Anthony W., June 16, 1850; Willis E., June 5, 1852; Marion J., June 5, 1854; Alice J., April 28, 1856; Caroline, March 6, 185S; Thomas, November 11, 1860; George, September 17, 1862; Sidney, February 27, 1864; Albert, November 12, 1866: Charles, April 28, 1868; and Amy E., December 22, 1869. Novem- ber 3, 1879, Mr. Downs died, in Downsville, a village in Norwalk Township named in honor of him, and where he had lived many years. Mr. Downs was much esteemed by all who knew him, and in his death the coun- ty lost one of its best and most useful eiti- zens. Mrs. Downs is a Quakeress.
JOSEPH ELLIS. farmer, P. O. Neola, was born in Monroe County. W. Va., in An- gust, 1824, son of John and Ellen (Rupert) Ellis; he, born in Virginia, was a Surgeon in the war of 1812; she, born in South Caro- lina, is living in Virginia, and the mother of six children-five girls and one boy-our subject. He attended the common schools of his native county, and then went to the seminary in Alleghany County, Va. He went to Missouri in 1844, where he was occupied as a Government land agent till the breaking- out of the war. He advocated the right of slavery. but did not join the Southern army. In 1864, he came to Iowa; lived in Council Bluffs a year, two years at the Eight-Mile Grove, one year in Crescent Township, thence to his present farm of sixty acres, which he purchased of J. P. Casady. When Mr. Ellis first purchased this land, it was un- improved; he has improved it, and now has a comfortable home there. January 19, ! 1847, in Missouri, Mr. Ellis married Frances Cochran, daughter of James Coch- ran, who was born in Madison County, Ky ..
and migrated to Missouri when it was à Territory. By this union there are five chil- dren-Mary E., born March 17, 1849; Min- erva A., 1851; Robert S., May 20, 1853; Charles A., April 11, 1855; and Harvey, born in 1856. During his residence in Missouri, Mr. Ellis was at one time Judge of the Coun- ty Court; he was also Major of militia. Since coming to Iowa, he has been a member of the Board of Supervisors of this county, and has also served as Justice of the Peace, and is now a member of the Board of School Di- rectors. Politically, he is a Democrat.
G. W. HENDERSON, farmer, P. O. Ne- ola, was born in Crawford County, Mo., April 27, 1828, son of Jimmy and Anna (Harris) Henderson: he. born in Virginia, near Jamestown, November 27, 1805, removed with his father to Missouri when quite young. There he remained as a farmer till 1834. when he removed to Illinois and settled on a farm, where he remained till his death, which occurred September S, 1843. He was mar- ried in Illinois about 1825. His wife was born in Tennessee in 1803, and died in 1843. They raised a family of five girls and four boys, all of whom were married and raised families. They are as follows: Mary, born April 18, 1827; Jane, July 4. 1830; John. December 1, 1831: Naney J., January 18. 1843; Martha. March 12. 1835: Sarah. July 1836: Samuel, April 18. 1838; and William, born June 26, 1840. Our subject attended the subscription schools of Illinois and East- ern Iowa, and is a man well posted in the affairs of the day. He first learned stone- cutting, then cabinet-making, and then went to farming He subsequently made his home with a sister, and. after the death of her husband, took care of her family till his own marriage, in 1555, his wife being Miss E. L. Galup, a native of New York State. After his marriage, Mr. Henderson located on the
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farm of eighty acres where he now lives. Mr. and Mrs. Henderson's children are Ed. born in 1840; Margaret, March 31, 1860; I. N., May 9, 1861; N. I., August 26, 1863; Jimmy, September 25, 1865; H. A., Febru- ary 23, 1867: W. W., June 13, 1869; Julia E., 1871; Elmira, March 4, 1873; H., Feb- ruary 4, 1877; and Hattie A., April 9, 1879. Mr. Henderson was a minute-man during the rebellion. He has been Road Supervisor and School Director. He is a Democrat, and votes for principle, not party.
J. N. HORN, farmer, P. O. Neola, was born May 12, 1849, in Garner Township, this county, son of John and Bebecca W. (Shuttle) Horn, natives of Dover, Kent, Eng- land. Subject's father was born in 1815, and came to the United States in 1847; set- tled in Garner Township, Pottawattamie Co., Iowa, in 1848. He is a carpenter by trade, but has been a farmer since his residence in this country. Subject's mother was born in 1815, and has borne eight children-three sons and five daughters; three of the latter are dead. Mr. Horn attended school till fourteen years of age, and worked on his fa- ther's farm till twenty-one, when he began working by the month in Hazel Dell Town- ship. This he continued three years, and then, after renting land for three years, he moved to Neola Township in 1876, and bought the farm of 190 acres where he now lives. Mr. Horn was married, January 1, 1873, in Neola, to Mary Ann Spencer, born in Crescent Township, this county, October 6. 1855, daughter of Thomas and Selina (Charlesworth) Spencer, natives of England, both now living in this county, near our sub- ject. Mr. and Mrs. Horn have had five chil- dren, two of whom are dead. The children are George Thomas, born January 26, 1874; Phillip Jesse, October 26, 1875, died Decem- ber 7, 1876; James Albert, September 13,
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1877, died February 15, 1879; John Robert, September 15, 1879; and Ida Belle, Decem- ber 6, 1881. Mr. Horn was one of the first white children born in this county, and he has never been a mile beyond the county line. He is a Republican in politics.
E. P. IVINS, editor of the Neola Tribune, Neola, was born in Clinton County, Ind .. July 25, 1849. His father, Dr. Daniel Ivins. was born in New Jersey in 1815, and was a physician of forty years' practice. He grad- uated at Cincinnati Medical College about 1840; practiced in the State of Indiana till coming to Iowa, in 1856; remained four years in Bedford, Taylor County, then in Monroe County till the breaking-out of the rebellion, when he went into the army and served about three years as Assistant Sur- geon. He then returned to Iowa, where he practiced till his death, which occurred in October, 1880. Mr. Ivins' mother, Eliza- beth P. (Davis) Ivins, was born near Day- ton, Ohio, March 4, 1828, and died in Feb- ruary, 1881. She was the mother of three boys and four girls; one of the former and two of the latter are dead. Mr. Ivins at- tended the common schools of Albia, Monroe Co., Iowa, and there served an apprentice- ship at printing. In 1862, he entered the army as drummer; remained about three years, and then, returning home, resumed his trade, which he followed until July 1, 1881, when he located in Neola. At that time, he purchased and became editor of the paper known as the Neola Tribune. It was first edited in 1878, by a man named Zenas Brown, and subsequently passed into the hands of Mc Williams & Chapman, whom our subject bought out. The Neola Tribune, as edited by Mr. Ivins, is a wide-awake weekly jour- nal, devoted to general news and matters of local interest. Mr. Ivins was married, at Dallas, Iowa, December 25, 1873, to Maggie
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