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On the 22d of September, 1857, in Perry county, Ohio, was celebrated the marriage of Captain Fowler and Miss Emily Brown, who was also a native of Ohio and died here July 6, 1901. being laid to rest in the Indianola cemetery. Of the seven children born to them three died in infancy. Grant, the eldest living, is married and is a railroad carpenter residing in Minne- sota. Thad is married and resides at Staples, Minnesota; Sally, the wife of E. H. Webster, who is engaged in the real-estate business in Lexington, Okla- homa, and Samuel F., of Salida, Colorado.
Captain Fowler has been a life-long republican, supporting each presiden- tial nominee of the party since voting for John C. Fremont in 1856. He has been a delegate to state and county conventions, has served as road super- visor and has been officially connected with the schools for many years, serv- ing as a director and also secretary and treasurer of the board. He was township trustee for seven years and has served on the petit jury a number of times. His public service has been exemplary and he has always been found true to any trust reposed in him. In religious faith he is a Metho- dist and he is an honored member of the Grand Army Post at Indianola.
WILLIAM H. GLYNN.
William HI. Glynn, the well known cashier of the Cumming Bank at Cumming, Iowa, is a native of this state, his birth occurring in Madison county, on the 27th of December, 1873. His parents are Thomas and Bridget (Craby) Glynn, both of whom are natives of Ireland and are now residing upon. a farm in Madison county, Iowa.
The father was born in County Mayo, Ireland, in October, 1831, and in that country grew to manhood, being twenty years of age when in 1851 he crossed the Atlantic and came to the United States. For about a year and a half he remained in New York and then went to Canada, where he worked on the railroad until 1855, which year witnessed his arrival in Iowa. He first located in Des Moines but in 1862 bought a farm in Madison county, to which he removed four years later and since that time he has made his home there, his time and attention being devoted to agricultural pursuits. Mrs. Bridget
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Glynn, the mother of our subject, was also a native of County Mayo, Ireland, born in 1841, and she, too, came to the new world in 1851 with her parents, who spent about two years in Virginia. The family then removed to Montreal, Canada, where they remained until 1855 and in that year became residents of Des Moines, Iowa. where Mr. Craby died. His wife passed away at the home of Mr. Glynn in Madison county. During the residence of the family in Virginia, Mrs. Glynn saw much of the dark side of slavery and was present at several public auctions of slave children.
Reared under the parental roof, William II. Glynn early became familiar with agricultural pursuits and his early education, acquired in the district schools, was supplemented by a course in the Highland Park College at Des Moines. After leaving school, he engaged in teaching for seventeen terms in Madison county and in July, 1907, came to Cumming, succeeding Frank Stiffler as cashier of the Cumming Bank, owned by Simon Casady & Company, bankers. He has now filled that position for one year and has proved a most capable and popular official, winning the confidence and regard of all with whom he has come in contact. In religious faith he is a Catholic and in politics is an ardent republican.
SOLOMON VAN SCOY.
Solomon Van Seoy, a retired agriculturist residing in Norwalk, was born in Barbour county, West Virginia, November 5, 1839, his parents being Wil- liam and Mary Van Scoy, natives of Virginia. They removed to White county, Indiana, in 1847, and in 1855 came to Warren county, Iowa, settling in Virginia township, where the father entered land from the government and subsequently gave each of his sons a tract of cighty acres. Both he and his wife passed away in this county.
Solomon Van Scoy improved the eighty acres of land which he had re- ceived from his father but later disposed of the property and bought a farm in Clarke county. Throughout his entire business career he has been connected with agricultural pursuits and for many years owned a good farm adjoining New Virginia, a portion of which is now in possession of his son Marcus. He is now living retired on a tract of ten acres adjoining the village of Norwalk, and also owns eighty-five acres in Virginia township, having accumulated a handsome competence through the careful conduct of his farming interests in former years.
Mr. Van Scoy was first married, in Squaw township, to Miss Emily Proud- foot, a native of Virginia, whose demise occurred in Virginia township in 1902. By this union there were four children, namely: Marcus James, who follows farming on the old homestead in Virginia township; Sarah Jane. the wife of Jacob Leonard, of Des Moines; Eva J., the wife of Thomas Septer, of Des Moines; and Mary Arlington. Following the death of his first wife
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Mr .. Van Scoy was again married, his third union being with Lilla Childs, who still survives.
In his political views Mr. Van Scoy is a stanch republican and has served as trustee of Virginia township for six years. He has been a member of the Methodist Episcopal church for a number of years, and fraternally is con- nected with the Masons at New Virginia. He is a well known and highly esteemed citizen of the community and has gained an extensive circle of warm friends during the long period of his residence here.
DANIEL G. PECK.
Daniel G. Peck, while now numbered among the successful business men of Indianola, started out in life on his own acount with but limited capital and has through his own labor and diligence won the prosperity which he is now enjoying. He was born in Putnam county, Indiana, in 1831, and was the fifth in order of birth in a family of ten children, whose parents, John and Sally (Taylor) Peck, were both natives of Kentucky. The Peck family is of Scotch-Irish descent. John Peck followed the occupation of farming as a life work. He removed from his native state to Ohio and in 1826 became a resident of Indiana, where from the government he entered a tract of tim- ber land, which he cleared and developed, bringing the fields under a high state of cultivation. He successfully carried on the farm work there until 1853, when he came to lowa and entered a traet of land in Lincoln town- ship, where he continued to spend his remaining days. He was a typical pioneer resident, whose home was noted for its warm hearted hospitality. It was always the stopping place for the preacher who visited the neighbor- hood and who always received a hearty welcome. In politics Mr. Peck was a democrat. He was not long permitted to enjoy his home in Iowa for after a residence here of about nine years he passed away in 1862, at the age of sixty-four years. His widow, long surviving him, died in 1894, at the very advanced age of ninety-four years.
As a farm boy Daniel G. Peck spent the days of his boyhood and youth. He early began to follow the plow and in the winter seasons when the work of the farm was practically over for the year, he attended the country schools. He gave his father the benefit of his services until seventeen years of age and then began learning the blacksmith's trade, becoming an expert workman in that line. He followed that pursuit for many years in Indianola and built the first blacksmith shop in the town. He was also engaged in the grain business at that place for four years and for a third of a century has continued in his present line of trade, having in 1875 opened a hardware store. He also deals in farm implements and buggies and carries a large line in each department. In fact his establishment is regarded as headquarters for anything desired in hardware, implements or carriages and throughout the intervening years he has enjoyed an extensive patronage, from which
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he has derived a just and reasonable profit, so that in the course of years he has become one of the substantial business men of the city.
Mr. Peck was married in 1854 to Miss Flora Marsh, who was born in Ohio in 1835. They traveled life's journey together for forty years and were then separated by the death of Mrs. Peck in 1894. They were the parents of seven children: Ginevra; Florence, who became the wife of J. M. Harlan and died in the fall of 1907, at the age of fifty-six years; Walter, who is en- gaged in the grocery business in Indianola; Frank, who has a gas light lamp system and resides in Wichita, Kansas; Alta, the wife of T. D. Swan, a farmer near Indianola; Benjamin, who has departed this life; and Orlin, who is with his father.
In the spring of 1852 Mr. Peck drove across the plains with ox teams on his way to California, passing through Oregon, and for a time was engaged in mining on the Pacific coast. He then returned home by way of the Isthmus of Panama. He is a supporter of democratie principles and has served as school director and as a member of the city council. Few men of his years, for he has attained the seventy-seventh milestone on life's journey, are so active and enterprising and in spirit and interests he seems yet in his prime and is justly regarded as one of the leading factors in business circles in Indianola, where for many years he has conducted a successful business along honorable principles that have neither sought nor required disguise.
ANDREW PUDERBAUGH.
Andrew Puderbaugh, who passed away at his home in Liberty township, Warren county, lowa, April 19, 1901, was born near Elkhart, Indiana, Feb- ruary 2, 1832. Removing to Darke county, Ohio, he acquired his education in the common schools of that place and, owing to the early death of his par- ents, he was reared by an uncle. On coming to Warren county, lowa, in 1854, he located on the farm on section 26, Liberty township, which is now owned by his son, Alonzo. First entering a quarter section, he later added to his landed holdings until at the time of his demise he owned three hundred and twenty acres, a part of which was timber. He met with a creditable and gratifying measure of snecess in his business undertakings and in addition to the work of general farming was engaged in shipping stoek for about eleven years under the firm style of Sandy & Puderbaugh. He was also one of the early auctioneers of this county and vicinity and cried sales for many years, his specialty being live stock. He was widely recognized as one of the prominent and influential pioneers of this county and his efforts were an im- portant factor in its growth and development.
In 1855 Mr. Puderbaugh was united in marriage to Miss Elizabeth Wag- oner, a native of Darke county, Ohio, who passed away here in 1878, when about forty-eight years of age. She was reared' in the faith of the Dunkard church. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Puderbaugh were born eight children, namely :
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Madison, who died in infancy; Minerva, the wife of J. T. Vincent, of Ack- worth, Iowa; William A., an agriculturist of Oklahoma; David Lincoln, whose sketch appears on another page of this work; Charles A., who for the past eleven years has resided in St. Francis, Kansas, and who is state live-stock inspector, owns a ranch and is a shipper of stock; Amy, the wife of R. O. Miller of Norwood, Iowa, who is one of Iowa's largest importers of Percheron stallions from France and also Clydesdale stallions and Scotch shorthorn cattle from Ontario, Canada; Sadie, who became the wife of Roland Barlett and resides in Hopeville, Iowa, and Alonzo, who is also mentioned on another page of this volume. The father was again married in 1881, his second union being with Mary A. Vorlis, of Lacona, Iowa, by whom he had one child, Samuel Oliver, who lives with his mother in Medford, Oregon.
In his political views Mr. Puderbaugh was a republican and served as trus- tee, justice of the peace and in other offices of public trust and responsibility. In the early days he was likewise identified with the Grange, and at one time was a member of the Dunkard church. He is still gratefully remembered as one of the carly pioneers whose earnest efforts made possible the present splendid development of the county, and the work which he began more than a half century ago is still being carried on by his sons.
J. D. BLAKE, M. D.
Dr. J. D. Blake is now one of the oldest practitioners of medicine in Warren county, having been engaged in active practice in Palmyra for thirty- eight years. He was born in Noble county, Ohio, on the 25th of November. 1838, and there grew to manhood, his primary education being obtained in the common schools of the county. Later he attended Marietta College for four years and having thus gained an excellent education he taught school for eleven winter terms. Having decided to enter the medical profession, he took his first course of lectures at the Starling Medical College, and later engaged in practice under Dr. Echelberry, at Lowell, Ohio, for four years. He then reentered college and was graduated with the class of 1869, receiving the degree of M. D. He continued practice at Lowell for a year longer and then returned to Noble county, where he remained until coming to Iowa.
In the meantime Dr. Blake was married in Zanesville, Ohio April 9, 1863. to Miss Hannah E. Kelley, who was born in Mansfield, Ohio, but was reared in Zanesville, Muskingum county, Ohio. They have two sons living. E. L. and B. S. Blake, both prominent lawyers of Des Moines; but their only daughter, Luna May, died when a young lady.
It was in 1870 that Dr. Blake located in Palmyra, Iowa, and he was not long in building up a good practice which extended for many miles into the surrounding country. There were two physicians here at the time of his arrival and fifteen others have since come and gone, but he has remained to enjoy an uninterrupted practice among some of the best families of the county.
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For forty-four years he has followed his chosen profession with most excellent success and his patients have the utmost confidence in his ability. He is a member of the county and state medical societies and he has the respect and confidence of his professional brethren as well as the community at large.
The Doctor owns a nice home and a tract of eight acres of land in the east- ern part of Palmyra. He walked fifteen miles to cast his first presidential ballot for Abraham Lincoln in 1860, and with two exceptions has since sup- ported every presidential nominee of the republican party. He has filled all the office in the Odd Fellows lodge at Palmyra, to which he belongs, and his estimable wife is a member of the Presbyterian church at Hartford.
LEONIDAS GILBERT.
One of the most prosperous and substantial agriculturists of Warren county is Leonidas Gilbert, who is successfully engaged in general farming and stock-raising on section 32, Union township. He was born in Logan county, Ohio, on the 8th of March. 1860, and is a son of James and Ellen Gilbert, both natives of England, where their marriage was celebrated and where they continued to make their home until after the birth of four of their children. The father was born in 1825 and the mother in 1822. Be- lieving that he could better his condition in the new world. he at length crossed the Atlantic and took up his residence in Logan county, Ohio, where he engaged in farming for several years. In 1860 he removed to Missouri, where he spent one year, and then came to Iowa, locating in Warren county, where he secured a farm of eighty acres. As time passed and he prospered in his new home he kept adding to his original purchase until he owned four hundred and eighty acres of valuable farming land, on which he erected good buildings. Later in life he put aside all business cares and removed to Milo, where he lived retired until called to his final rest September 25, 1907. His first wife, who was the mother of our subject, had died some seventeen years previous and he had married again. By the first union there are four sons and one daughter still living.
Leonidas Gilbert was only one year old when the family became residents of Warren county and here he passed his early life in much the usual manner of farm boys, his literary education being obtained in the common schools. He remained under the parental roof, assisting in the labors of the farm until reaching man's estate and then went to Gentry county, Missouri, where he purchased .two hundred acres of land and engaged in farming for two years.
At the end of a year Mr. Gilbert returned to this county and here on the 13th of March, 1894. was celebrated his marriage to Miss Mary J. Johns, a native of this county and a daughter of Ephraim Johns, who was born in Warren county, Iowa. and is now a farmer of Union township. Two sons bless this union, namely: Aubrey Forest and Coy Ronald.
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After his marriage Mr. Gilbert returned to Missouri, where he remained another year and then traded his farm there for two hundred and forty acres in Union township, this county, whereon he resided for five years. At the end of that time he purchased the old home place, where his boyhood was passed, and to the improvement and cultivation of that farm he has since devoted his energies with most gratifying results. Upright and reliable in business, he has steadily prospered in all his undertakings and is now the owner of seven hundred and forty-six acres of valuable farming land, which he keeps under a high state of cultivation. Stock-raising also claims considerable of his attention and he now feeds and ships three or four carloads of cattle and hogs annually, finding this branch of his business quite profitable.
By his ballot Mr. Gilbert usually supports the republican party but being a strong temperance man he favors prohibition principles and he gives his support to all measures which he believes will advance the moral and social welfare of his township and county. Both he and his wife are active mem- bers of the Church of Christ at Sandyville and he also belongs to the Modern Woodmen of America, and the Yeomen, while Mrs. Gilbert is also a member of the Yeomen. He is one of the most progressive and up-to-date farmers of Union township and his fellow citizens hold him in the highest esteem.
HENRY I. HOOVER.
Henry I. Hoover, residing on a Scotch Ridge farm of ninety acres, located on section 22, Greenfield township, dates his residence in Warren county since 1850, having been brought to this country by his parents when but six years of age. He was born in Shelby county, Indiana, November 12, 1844. the son of Ephraim A. and Julia Ann (Howrey) Hoover. His father was a native of North Carolina and went from there to Indiana when a young man, where he met and married Julia A. Howrey, who was a native of Ohio. There he lived a number of years, conducting farming operations, and ulti- mately opened a lumber and flouring mill, in the running of which he was quite successful and was doing a good business just previous to his remov- ing to Iowa. In 1850 he disposed of his milling interests and moved to War- ren county, where he located on a partly improved farm near Spring Hill. Later he sold this and bought a saw and grist mill on North river, which he ran for six years, when he sold it and farmed for a couple of years. He then bought a sawmill in Greenfield township, which he operated until the time of his death, in 1865. His wife survived him for twenty-seven years and passed away in 1892. They were the parents of four sons and six daughters. all of whom grew to maturity and are now living. with the exception of two of the daughters.
Henry I. Hoover remained with his parents during his boyhood and youth and was educated in the home schools. During the Civil war he enlisted on August 12, 1862. in Company B. Thirty-ninth Iowa Volunteer Infantry
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and was sent with his regiment to Kentucky and Tennessee. In an engage- ment at Parker's Crossroads. Tennessee, he was wounded and permanently disabled. He was then discharged February 28, 1863. for disability and was sent home. He reenlisted June 5. 1864, joining the Forty-eighth Iowa Volun- teers, and for one hundred days was stationed with a battalion that guarded the prison on Rock Island. He served for five months. when he was honorably discharged and returned home. He then' engaged in farming for a number of years, but finally opened up a brick kiln. and for thirteen years he engaged in the manufacture of bricks, for which he found a ready sale in Des Moines, Indianola, and throughout Warren and Polk counties. He then leased a farm and engaged in farming and stock-raising. In 1884 he bought the farm where he now resides and began its cultivation. He also burned brick here Lor two seasons. He has built a neat, substantial two-story residence and a large barn, has put out a young orchard, and has cleared the land of some heavy timber. He has constructed the necessary granaries, sheds and other outbuildings for the shelter of stock, in which he deals quite extensively, buying. raising and feeding them for the market.
On June 15. 1865, occurred the marriage of Mr. Hoover and Miss Rox- anna Blackford. who was born and reared in Shelby county, Indiana, and came to Iowa with a brother. Unto this union have been born eleven children, namely: Alice. the wife of Charles Groves. a farmer residing in this county ; Anna, the wife of Elvin Bishop. of Pocahontas county; Alexander, who con- duets farming operations on the home farm; Wilbur. of Pocahontas county; Dilla. the wife of Earl Pool, of Greenfield township; George, who is engaged in farming in his own behalf; Laura and Henry I. Jr .. who reside at home with their parents. Three children died in infancy, Alonzo at the age of three years, and Mahala and Margaret both died when about three months old.
In politics Mr. Hoover is a stanch republican. though he has never been an aspirant to public office. Fraternally he is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic. During his long residence in this eounty Mr. Hoover has witnessed remarkable improvements and has had the satisfaction of know- ing that he has played no unimportant part in the development of the country.
ALBERT ROSS GUY.
Albert Ross Guy, who for twenty-four years has been engaged in the real-estate business in Indianola and for the past ten years has also been well known here as an auctioneer. is numbered among the native sons of the county. his birth having occurred in Otter township. March 15, 1859.
His father, John Bryant Guy. was born in Morgan county, Indiana. and is now living at Milo, this county, at the venerable age of eighty years. He came to Iowa in 1848, settling in Polk county. where he entered land from the government, hauling his goods to his claim from Keokuk. In 1853
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he removed to Warren county and established his home in Otter township. where he purchased land and was for many years widely known as a suc- cessful farmer and stockman. He is now living retired in the enjoyment of a rest which he has truly earned and richly deserves. With the pioneer development of this portion of the state he has been closely associated and his work in its behalf has been effective and valuable. For the past thirty- five years he has been a devoted member of the Methodist Episcopal church. In politics he has always stood loyally for his honest opinions and for a considerable period voted with the republican party but believing the tem- perance question to be a paramount issue he became a stalwart prohibitionist. He enlisted in 1862 at Indianola for active service with Company C. of the Thirty-fourth Iowa Infantry and served for three years. It is stated by his comrades that no better soldier ever bore arms in defense of his country. They also told that he always displayed even in the darkest days of the Civil war the most remarkable. congenial disposition, was always happy and cheer- ing those with whom he was associated. The duties assigned to his regiment were of a most trying character but through it all J. B. Guy was the same brave. faithful. genial military hero. He enlisted from Warren county and at the close of the war returned to his old home, where as a citizen he has been as faithful to public interests as he was when defending the stars and stripes on the battlefields of the south.
He is now spending his declining years in the same community in which he has lived since the war, honored by his children and esteemed by an ex- tensive circle of friends which is almost eoextensive with the circle of his ac- quaintance. He married Matilda Emmons, who was born in Zanesville, Mus- kingum county, Ohio, in 1826, and is now living at the age of eighty-two years. Their family numbered four sons and four daughters: Laura, who is deceased; Florence, who became the wife of Samuel W. Conrad, who was a soldier of the Civil war, followed farming and also served as county treas- urer but both are now deceased; Clarence, a farmer and stock-dealer of Guide Rock, Nebraska; Albert R .. whose name introduees this review; Sherman, who resides on the old homestead in Otter township; Janie. who died at the age of two years; John B., who is an auctioneer and dealer in horses, making his home in Milo, Iowa; and Blanche, who became the wife of Dr. M. L. Hooper, of Indianola and is now deceased.
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