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Richard Ryan, P. O. Waukon, farmer, sec. 9; owns a farm of 360 acres valued at $15 per acre. He was born in 1818 in Coun- ty Tipperary, Ireland, where he remained till 1840, when he crossed the briny ocean to seek a new home in the far west. He first engaged at farm work in Massachusetts for three years, then went to Union Village, Connecticut, where he engaged in a fac- tory for a firm, Bartholomew & Warkison, for whom he worked nine years, after which he came to Cattaraugus Co., New York, remaining about a year, when he went to Dunkirk and engaged in railroading for about two years. He then came to Dubuque, Iowa, and engaged at the same business and quarrying stone for a couple of years, after which he came on to his present farm in 1856 and commenced improving it, having purchased a quarter section of it in 1848. He married Miss Mary Fogerty, of Boston, in 1840. They have seven children, Richard, Timothy, John, Henry, Thomas Margaret, and an adopted daughter, Mary. Mr. R. is one of the enterprising and thorough-going farmers of his tp., and is a member of the Catholic Church.
B. P. Raymond, P. O. Waukon, farmer, sec. 35; son of John and Christine Raymond; was born in Trumbull Co., Ohio, in 1847. His parents moved to this county in 1852, locating upon the farm upon which he now resides, he being one of eight children, Ed-
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win J., Wm. S., David B., John B., Ebenezer D., Atalissa M. and Harriet L. His father was a native of Connecticut, his mother of Ohio. His father died in January, 1878; his mother lives with him on a part of the homestead of 240 acres, which he now owns. He was united in marriage to Miss Isabella Ross in 1881. She being a native of this Co. and the daughter of H. G. Ross.
Tollef O. Rikansrud, P. O. Elon; born in Norway, September 13, 1823; came to the United States in 1855, coming to Allamakee Co. He married Miss Ragnild Oldstatter, in Dec., 1861. She was also born in 1823 in Norway; they have four children, Ole T .. Sven, Olous and Engebreth. Mr. R. has taken special interest in educating his children, having sent Ole T. and Engebreth to the Lutheran College at Decorah three years. Ole T. has tanght a district school two terms and designs to attend the State Normal School at Cedar Falls the ensuing fall. Mr. R. owns 120 acres in his home farm and 90 acres elsewhere. He is a member of the Lutheran Church.
Jacob Rupp, see. 17, P. O. Waukon; owns a farm of 210 acres, well improved and worth $40 per acre. He was born in Hesse Darmstadt, Germany. in 1833. In October, 1853, he shipped on board the sail vessel Harmonia, from Havre for New York, where after a long and dangerous voyage they arrived in New York in the February following, having been eighty days on the water on account of severe storms, and narrowly escaping shipwreck. He came on the same year to Monroe County, N. Y., and hired out to a farmer, for whom he worked eleven years and in 1865 rented a farm for one year, clearing $1,500. Thinking that would enable him to purchase a home in the west, in the spring of 1866 he came to Allamakee County, Iowa, and purchased a part of the farm he still owns. He was married to Miss Mary Nagle in 1868. She was also a native of Germany. They have cight children, Mary, Jacob, Louisa, Frank. Edward, Martha. Bertie and Sophia. Mr. R. is a member of the German Reformed Church.
O. A. Ross, P. O. Rossville; farmer, section 25; son of Moses A. and Isabella Ross, was born in 1834, in Fayette Co., Pa., and came to this county in 1853, being among the pioneers of the tp. In August, 1862 he enlisted in Co. I., 27th Io. Infty, his first ser- vice being up to Fort Snelling, afterwards in the Indian country a short time, when the Company was taken to Cairo, Ill., and thence to Jackson, Tenn., where he was discharged for disability in January, 1863, after which he returned home, and the following year, 1864, was married to Miss Louisa A. M. Blumm, a native of Germany. Their children are Harry A., Emily G. and Gilmore. Mr. R. has served his tp. as trustee, is also a member of the 1. O. O. F. He also owns a farm of 160 acres. worth $35 per acre, be- ing pleasantly and comfortably situated adjoining the village of Rossville.
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Edward Raddy, P. O. Forest Mill; farmer, section 28; owns 80 acres of land, worth $3,000; was born in Ireland in 1825, emi- grated to the U. S. in 1847, and came to Rondeout, N. Y., where he stopped till the fall of 1849, when he went to New Orleans, stopping till the following spring, then came to Louisville, Ky., and shortly after to Washington Co., Ind., where he worked on the New Albany & Salem Railroad about two years. He then went to Cleveland, Ohio, remaining a short time, and thence to Illyria, where he remained about nine months; thence to Lafayette, Ind., remaining during the winter, and in the spring came via the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers to McGregor, Io., which was in 1857. He came to Rossville, and worked for a time in the steam saw mill there, and afterwards at a saw mill on Yellow River. In the spring of 1860 he, like many others, caught the Pike's Peak fever; so he started down the Mississippi river and via Hannibal to St. Joe, Mo., and joined a company and went to Pike's Peak. He followed mining in that vicinity about two years, and then went to the Idaho mines, to Virginia City, to Helena, Mon., and the Blackfoot country, as it was called, in Washington Co., where he prospected, striking a claim which paid him about $2,000. He then concluded to return to the society of friends in old Allamakee coming via Denver and Omaha to his brother's, in this tp., in the fall of 1863. The following spring he purchased his present farm for $1,800, and commenced farming. In Feb., 1865, he was mar- ried to Miss Bridget Henry, who died in Sept., 1878, and in Sept., 1880, he was again married to Hannah Burke. His children by his first wife are Mary C., Margaret and Edward J., and by his second wife, Martin. Mrs. R. is a member of the Catholic church.
C. A. Robey, P. O. Rossville; farmer, section 32; son of Heze- kiah and Caroline Robey; was born Sept. 27th, 1844, in Mononga- hela Co., West Va., immigrated with his parents to this county in the spring of 1855 locating in Franklin tp. the following fall, where his mother still resides. In Feb., 1864, he enlisted in Co. K. 1st Io. Cav. Their service was mostly skirmishing in the southwest. He served under A. J. Smith and Gen. Custer; was mustered out in the spring of 1866, returned home and was married May 13th. to Miss Isabel M. Dunn, daughter of William Dunn, and moved to his present farm of 106 acres, valued at $20 per acre. Their children are Ella W., Angie L., Harvey E., Mary E., Edward, William D. and Albert. They have lost one child, Carrie M. Mr. R. has served his township as assessor, tp. clerk and is at present justice of the peace.
John Roffman, P. O. Forest Mill; farmer, section 12; owns 145 acres of land, valued at $18 per acre. He was born in Prussia, in 1835; emigrated to the United States in 1871, coming in a sail vessel and being three months on the ocean and nearly starved, about 300 emigrants being on the
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vessel. He first located in Northern Mich., near Lake Superior, where he was engaged in burning charcoal for a smelting company. In 1874 he came to Allamakee Co., Io., locating on the land he now owns. He was married in Prussia, in 1861, to Minnie Blenk. They have eight children, Bertha, Ella, Frank, Anna, John. Ida, Jane and Henry, and have lost one son, Albert, who died in Prus- sia.
Julius Rieth, son of the late John Rieth, was born in Dubuque, Io., in 1856, and was brought by the family to Lansing in 1857. Here he was bred to a mercantile life in his father's store. In 1877 he purchased the business and has since continued the same.
Peter Reiser, farmer, P. O. Lansing, was born in Switzerland in 1838. He came;to Iowa when he was 14 years of age. In 1862 he purchased his father's old homestead, and now has a farm of 280 acres well improved. He married in 1862 Catharine Marti, and they have six children, John H., George W., Julius E., Emma, Barbara and Philip.
C. A. Renzenhausen, dealer in general merchandise at Watson, Clayton Co .; also carries on a farm in company with his father. He was born in Lawrence Co., Ohio, in 1853, came to Iowa in 1863. His father is C. R. Renzenhausen, a native of Germany.
David W. Reed, postmaster, Waukon; was born in Cortland, N. Y., April 2, 1841. Came to Iowa with his parents in April, 1855, to Center township, this Co., where his father, John Reed, pur- chased a farm on sec. 31, at one time owning 400 acres, of which one eighty is still owned by the subject of this sketch. In the fall of 1859 he began attending the Upper Iowa University at Fayette, and from there in the fall of 1861, he enlisted as private in Co. C, 12th Iowa Vol. Infantry, and followed the fortunes of that regiment during the war, being in all its engagements ex- cept those of the Red River expedition. By a wound received at Shiloh, at the time of the last attack made by the rebels Sunday afternoon, he escaped capture, with his regiment, but was left in the field in the rebel lines until they were driven back Monday afternoon. In April, 1863 he was promoted to the 2d lieutenan- cy, and was commissioned 1st Lieut. Dec. 14th following. From the spring of 1864 to Jan. 21, 1865, he was acting adjutant of the regiment, (and during which time he had a horse shot from under him at Tupelo), and at the latter date received a commission as captain of his company. The following spring was commissioned major by brevet in U. S. Volunteers, for gallant and meritorious services at the siege of Spanish Fort, to date from April 8 of that year-'65-which brevet was recommended by Maj. Gens. A. J. Smith and E. R. S. Canby, and Col. W. R. Marshall, of the 7th Minn., (afterward Governor of that State), commanding the bri- gade. Nov. 2, 1865 he was commissioned major of the 12th regi- ment; meanwhile he had acted as field officer-major-from the time of his commission as captain until his assignment as inspec-
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tor on the staff of Gen. Hubbard. Was mustered out with the regiment at Memphis, Jan. 20. 1856; but afterwards was commis- sioned major by brevet for gallant, faithful and meritorious ser- vices during the war to date from muster out.
In the spring of 1856, Major Reed entered the law office of L. E. Fellows, at Lansing, and was admitted to the bar in 1868. During this time he was deputy revenue collector for this county, under Col. D. B. Henderson, of Dubuque. In the fall of 1868 he was elected to the office of County Recorder, and by four successive re- elections was kept in that position during the period of ten years, until Jan. 1, 1879. May 20, 1879, he was commissioned postmas- ter at Waukon, assuming the duties of the office July 1st. Upon entering the Recorder's office in 1869, he began the compilation of a set of abstracts of records and to-day possesses the only set in existence of great value. Mr. Reed was married Sept. 20, 1866, to Miss Ellen E. Manson, and has three children living, viz: Minnie A., Milton E. and Gertrude M .; having lost two, Maud and Leonard.
Reuben Sencebaugh, P. O. Rossville, farmer, sec. 32; owns a farm of 537 acres valued at $20 per acre. He was born January 20, 1811, in Fayette County, Pennsylvania. His parents moved to Monongahela County, Virginia, in 1820. For several years pre- vious to coming to Iowa, he was engaged in the manufacturing of iron, and for some years as superintendent of a blast furnace. for the smelting of iron ore. He immigrated to Iowa in 1850, stop- ping in Clayton County till 1852. He then came on to his present farm, he being among the earliest settlers of the township. He married Catharine MeShane, of Va., November 9, 1837. She was born in 1815. They have eight children, Sarah, Margaret, Mary A., Francis, Almeda, Abraham, Clara and Dora. The youngest is now a student of the Iowa University, and will graduate the next term. His son Francis served his country in the late rebellion in Co. L. 5th Io. Cav. Mr. S. has served his tp. as justice of the peace.
Gilbert Satrang, farmer. sec. 11, Paint Creek tp. was born in Norway, Dec. 5, 1831, and came to this country. to Michigan, in July, 1851, and afterwards to Wisconsin. In 1867 he came from Wisconsin to Iowa, and settled in Paint Creek township where he bought land upon which he has since resided. It was then bare prairie land, but is now surrounded and well sheltered with beau- tiful trees, making one of the pleasantest of homes. He now owns 200 acres of valuable land in this township. From his first resi- dence here Mr. Satrang has taken a position naturally among the prominent men, and has frequently been called to positions of trust and honor. For several years in succession he held the offi- ce of collector for his township, as he had also that of assessor; and was at one time was on the board of tp. trustees. In the fall of 1877 he was elected a member of the county board of supervis-
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ors by a large majority, for a term of three years. At its expira- tion in 1880 he was re-elected and is now serving his sixth con- secutive year in this responsible capacity. Mr. Satrang was mar- ried in 1855. His wife, Bergith, is also a native of Norway where she was born in 1836. They have six children living, viz: An- drea T., Christian O., Carl A .. Emma C., Albert I. and Ivar I.
Christ Scheuning, P. O. Waukon; farmer, sec. 28; owns 120 acres of land valued at $35 per acre; was born October 10, 1829, Wurtemburg, Germany; emigrated to the United States in 1857. locating in Stevenson County, Ill., where he remained till in 1869 he came to Allamakee County, Iowa, locating upon the farm upon which he still resides. He married Miss Mary Herman in Ill. in 1858. She died in 1865 and he was again married to Nancy Wil- ber in 1866. His children by his first wife are Barbara, Fred- erick and Elizabeth, and by his second wife, one son, Albert.
Win. T. Stull, P. O. Rossville, farmer, sec 26; son of John and Thankfull Stull; was born in 1819 in Fayette Co., Pennsylvania, immigrated to Iowa in 1852, locating in this county, he being among the early settlers. Mr. S. enlisted in Co. I, 27th Inf., in August, 1862, serving till the close of the war in 1865. He par- ticipated in most all of the battles in which the company was en- gaged, among which were Plesant Hill, La .: Yellow Bayou, Nashville, Tennessee: also at the capture of Fort Blakely, Spanish Fort, Mobile, Ala .; after which he was discharged and returned. Mr. S. was married to Miss Mary Rowan in 1847, in Pa. They have three children, Elijah, Fillmore and Laura, and have lost nine, John. Nathaniel, William, Luella J., Emma, Mary E., Charles S., Frank and David: most of whom died of diphtheria. Mr. S. owns a farm of one hundred and sixty-five acres, valued at $25 per acre.
Victor H. Stevens, merchant and station agent. This success- ful young business man was born in Connecticut in 1855: came to Washington Prairie, Winneshiek County, in 1857; to Waukon in 1862; established himself in the mercantile business at Water- ville in the fall of 1877 with J. H. Hall, of Waukon, under the style of V. H. Stevens & Co., and the following year erected the large, substantial store building and residence which henow occu- pies. After various changes in the membership of the firm Mr. S. became the sole proprietor of the mercantile interest in the . spring of 1881; and early in 1882 still further enlarged his opera- tions by the purchase of a hardware business established there in 1880. Previous to locating at Waterville Mr. Stevens was depu- ty postmaster at Wankon for several years. He also assisted in the surveys of the W. & M. R. R$, and upon its completion to Waterville was appointed station agent, which position he still occupies. as well as agent for the Am. Express Co. In Decem- ber, 1878, Mr. Stephens was married to Miss Dily E. Hersey, and has one child, Vera.
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G. W. Sherman, P. O. Waukon, farmer; son of Jno. S. and Polly Sherman; was born in 1834 in Erie Co., Penn., and immi- grated to Green Co., Wis., in 1855, remaining there till 1857, when he came to Allamakee Co., locating in Jefferson tp., on sec. 23., where he owns forty acres of first-class land, well improved. Aug. 8, 1862, he enlisted in Co. A, 27th Iowa Inf. He was most of the time employed in the hospital, being nurse one and a half years, and hospital steward one year; was mustered ont at the close of the war and returned home. He was married to Miss Catharine Round, of Wis., in 1857, by whom he has four children, Jessie D., Lena L., Mary E., Debbie L. Mrs. S. died Feb. 26, '73. He S. has served his tp. as trustee, assessor, and president of school board several years, and is also a member of the I. O. O. F.
James Shaff, sec. 21, P. O. Waukon, owns 200 acres of land valued at $35 per acre; was born in New Jersey in 1817, his parents moving to Canada when he was about a year old, remaining there but a short time. then moved to Trumbull Co., Ohio, where he re- mained till in 1837, when he went to Laporte Co., Ind., remaining there until in 1851, he came to Allamakee Co .; the family following the year after. They were among the pioneers of the County. He was married to Miss Louisa Wood in 1858. She was a native of Portage Co., Ohio, and died in 1864. He was again married to Addie Wood, sister of his first wife, in 1866, has one daughter by his second marriage, Estella, and lost one son by his first wife, Charles. He is a member of the M. E. church.
Louis K. Smith, farmer, sec. 1, P. O. Waukon; son of J. C. and Mary J. Smith, his father being a native of Ohio and mother of Pennsylvania. " They came to this Co. in 1849, locating at Volney, where the subject of this sketch was born in 1853. His father, in company with a man by the name of Austin Smith, who was a millwright, built a saw mill at Volney, it being among the first in the county. In 1855 his parents moved to Waukon and engaged in the hotel business for about a year, when his father traded it for a farm north of Waukon, which he ran a short time, then traded it for the Decorah House, in Decorah, which he ran three years, when he disposed of it and traded for the farm upon which Mr. S. now lives; but soon sold it and moved to Waukon. where he died in 1875, his wife following him two years later. His father was a member of the A. F. & A. M. The subject of this sketch received a fair education in the common schools, qualifying himself for a teacher, in which capacity he has had some experience. He was married to Miss Olive J. Holbrook, Dec. 1874. She was also a na- tive of this county. They have four children, Mabel, Louella, William and Louis K. Mr. S. purchased his present farm of 265 acres in 1880; it being one of the best farms in the tp.
Bard Shefloe, P. O. Waukon, farmer, sec. 5; owns 365 acres of land valued at $30 per acre; was born in Norway in 1832, emigrat- ed to the U. S. in 1860, and the same year located in this Co. Mr.
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S. has by economy and industry accumulated a good farm, well improved. He was married to Miss Olein Kjelseth in 1862. She was also born in Norway. Their children are Joseph S., Os- car E., and Marcilla. Mr. S. is a member or the Lutheran church.
Frank Steel, P. O. Postville, farmer, sec. 34; owns 170 acres of land valued at $50 per acre. He was born in France in 1813, where he remained till in 1847, when he emigrated to the U. S., coming via New Orleans and up the Mississippi to Galena, III., and located on a farm nine miles from there. In the fall of 1856 he came to this county and located on his present farm. He mar- ried Catharine Kiser, of France, in 1842. They have three chil- dren, Barbara, Joseph and Christine. His son Joseph runs the farm. Joseph was married to Margaret Ryan in 1874; they have seven children, Francis, Joseph, John, Jane, Henry V., William and Catharine. Mr. S. is a member ot the Catholic church.
Anton Staadt, dealer in drugs, paints, oils, glass, wall paper, oil paintings, chromos, etc., Postville; was born in Prussia in 1821 near the River Rhine; was educated in Prussia, and at the high school of arts and manufactures in Paris, gaining a thorough knowledge of chemistry; was in that school three years, returned home and served as director in a glass factory. In 1851 he emi- grated to the United States, stopping in a drug establishment in New York a few months, after which he came to Wisconsin, where he remained till the spring of 1853, when he came to Post town- ship, this county. purchasing a farm, upon which he remained till, in 1865, came to Postville and engaged in his present business. He married Miss Paulina Verver in the spring of 1851; they have one son, Godfrey, and has lost one, Anton, who died in Milwaukee, Dec. 16, 1871. Mr. L. is a member of the A. F. & A. M.
Ed. Sheehy, proprietor of European restaurant; son of John and Bridget Sheehy; was born in 1847 in Salem, Mass. His father followed railroading, and when he was quite small went to Vt. and afterwards to New York, remaining but a short time, when he moved to Ohio, afterwards living in Mo., Ill. and Iowa. In 1854 he came to Dubuque, and afterwards lived in Fayette and Clayton counties. He married Ellen Murphy in 1870. She was born in Ohio. Mr. S. came to Postville in 1870 and commenced his present business. They have four children, John E., James F., Mary E. and Auna T., and have lost two, Michael J. and Catha- rine E. His father died January 2d, 1882. He is a member of the Catholic Church.
J. B. Schmidt, Postville, manufacturer and of dealer in boots and shoes; was born in 1835 in Germany, where he received his edu- cation and learned his trade. His parents both died when he was young, leaving him dependent upon relatives. In 1866 he emi- grated to the U. S., stopping at Galena, Ill., he worked at his trade there a short time and afterwards made a tour through Io.,
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Mo., Col. and Neb., working at journey work at different cities of those states. He was married to Miss Mary Weiss, of Galena. Ill., in 1868, after which he lived at Patch Grove, Grant Co., Wis., some three years, then came to Postville and established his pres- ent business. His wife died October 22. 1874, leaving him with three children: John B., Mary M. and Aurelia M. Mr. S. speaks German, French and English, and is a member of the Catholic Church.
G. W. Stafford, blacksmith and dealer in pumps, wind mills, &c., Postville; was born in Rochester, N. Y., in 1829. His parents immigrated to Cass County, Michigan, in 1835, and in 1839 to DeKalb Co., Ill., where he remained till the spring of 1830, when he went to California via New Orleans and ocean steamer, re- maining there engaged in mining most of the time, also in gen- eral merchandising, and at his trade. Finally, on account of be- ing troubled with sciatic rheumatism, he was compelled to return to the states in 1869, coming via New York, and to Postville, Io., where he engaged in blacksmithing, brick making, etc., which lat- ter business he followed some three years, burning nearly three- quarter of a million of briek and putting up several brick build- ings, including the Methodist Episcopal Church. He was mar- ried to Miss Martha Perry, of England, in 1870. They have four children, Nettie, Sarah, Georgiana and James, and have lost one, Mattie. Mr. S. is a member of the M. E. Church and the I. O. (). F. and A. O. U. W.
Edward Staadt, farmer, P. O. Postville; owns a farm of 285 acres, valued at $9,000; was born in Prussia near the River Rhine in 1822; emigrated to the United States in 1853, stopping a short time at Sheboygan, Wis., but arriving the same year at Allama- kee County, Iowa, purchasing in the south part of Post tp. in company with his brother, Anton. He subsequently sold out and purchased his present farm in 1860. He was married to Miss Han- nah Mitchell, also a native of Germany, in 1860, and has four chil- dren, Charlotte, Carl W., John and Frederick.
Bennett Swenson, farmer, P. O. Waterville, owns 315 acres of land valued at $25 per acre, was born December 25, 1824, in Nor- way, emigrated to the U. S. in the spring of 1845, locating in Rock Co., Wis., In January 1850, he started for the gold regions of California: going via New York and ocean steamer around Cape Horn to San Francisco; and up the Sacramento River to Sacra- mento. He engaged in mining till in 1853; returned via the isthmus to New York, and by rail to Wisconsin. In 1854 he came to Allamakee Co., and located on his present farm. He mar- ried Augusta Thorson in October, 1854. She died Sept. 29, 1875, leaving him with six children. Sven, Thorson, Ofaus, Andrew, Julia and Isabel. They have lost two, Andrew and Rosina. Mr. S. is a member of the Lutheran church.
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