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Seven children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Stinson, as follows : Florence Elba Dodd, born April 25, 1875, lives at Colfax, Iowa; Maggie Edith, born November 2, 1876, died September 23, 1878; John Berryl, born April 21, 1880, lives in Madison county, Iowa; Audra Belle Tipton, born December 1, 1881, is living near the home farm in Independence township; Sarah Fern Kracht, born December 16, 1884, lives in Independence township; Verdie Opal Swinnebart, born April 24, 1889, lives in Independence township; Frank G., born May II, 1891, who is living in Independence township, mar- ried Cretia Adkins, daughter of General and Laura Adkins, August 30, 191I.
Politically, Mr. Stinson is independent, but his support may always be depended upon in furthering any movement having as its object the better- ment of his township and county. He is associated with the Methodist church at Baxter.
In a business way Mr. Stinson has been successful beyond the average man, having, by his individual efforts, economy, wise foresight and honest dealings, accumulated a competency aside from his fine farm of seven hundred and twenty acres, one of the best improved, productive and desirable of Jas- per county's model farms. He is also the owner of one hundred and twenty acres of valuable land in Madison county. He has a beautiful home and sub- stantial and convenient outbuildings. As a general farmer and stock raiser he easily ranks among the leaders in this locality, and personally he is a man whom to know is to respect and admire, owing to his exemplary character and his genial personality.
GEORGE E. HANSON.
It is with a great degree of satisfaction to the biographer when he reverts to the life of one who has made the rough path of life smooth by his untiring perseverance, has attained success in any vocation requiring definiteness of purpose and determined action. Such a life, whether it be one of calm, con- secutive endeavor, or of sudden meteoric accomplishments, must abound in both lesson and incentive and prove a guide to the young men whose fortunes are still matters for the future to determine. For many years George E. Hanson, well known and substantial stock man and agriculturist of Clear Creek township, Jasper county, has directed his efforts toward the goal of success and by patient continuance has won pronounced success. He has not only by his industry, fair dealing and sound judgment improved a fine farm and gained a competency, but has materially assisted in the general welfare of the
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community, in many ways lending his valuable time and influence in the promulgation of various uplifting movements, consequently he is eminently deserving of the high esteem in which he is universally held and of the con- fidence reposed in him by all classes.
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Mr. Hanson was born on the farm where he still resides in Clear Creek township, on January II, 1863, and here he has been content to spend his life, gradually advancing himself from an humble beginning to a position of ease and affluence, one of the most substantial men of the township, all through his individual, unaided efforts. He is the son of Hans and Mary (Ashton) Hanson, the father born in Norway, April 13, 1828, and the mother was born in Ohio; her death occurred at Collins, Iowa, in October, 1896. When young in years the father came to America, locating in Iowa in an early day and here spent practically the rest of his life. He was a man of sterling traits, brave ยท and a hard worker. He was a member of the famous band of forty-niners and he crossed the great western plains with an ox team to California, re- maining in that state four years, then went to Australia and remained there four years, returning to the United States by way of Liverpool, England, thus circumnavigating the globe. His death occurred at Collins, Iowa, on Septem- ber 14, 1896. His family consisted of seven children, four of whom are living, named as follows: J. B. is deceased; George E., of this sketch; S. S. lives at Collins; Mrs. Hulda Faucett, of Maxwell; Amos lives at Collins; William and Myrtle are deceased.
George E. Hanson grew up on the home farm where he began working in the fields when but a boy, and during the winter months he attended the public schools in his district. He took up farming for a livelihood and when but a boy evinced an especial bent toward cattle and feeds from five to six car loads yearly. Today no better judge of cattle could be found than he.
Mr. Hanson was married on April 1I, 1894, to Edna Rippey, who was born in Independence township, this county, on March 7, 1867. She is the daughter of William and Ann (Arnsworth) Rippey, the father born in Kosciusko county, Indiana, April 9, 1829, and the mother's birth occurred there on April IIth of the same year. They grew up in their native com- munity and were married in 1859. Mr. Rippey was seventeen years old when, in 1854, he came to Iowa, locating on a farm in Jasper county and was thus one of the early pioneers here; however, he later returned to Indiana, but came back to this county during the latter fifties and has since made his home here, living now at Ira. He served with much credit in the Union army dur- ing the Civil war. He devoted his life to agricultural pursuits, becoming one
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of the largest landowners and substantial citizens of the county, owning at one time one thousand acres and he yet retains six hundred acres, after giving considerable land to his children, of whom there were eight, named as follows : Mrs. Fannie E. Lowe died in Idaho; Mrs. Elizabeth A. Parker lives in Sher- man township, this county; Mrs. Martha Byal lives in Clear Creek township, Jasper county ; Francis J. lives near the town of Ira, this county; Frederick Grant and Mary are both deceased; Jessie M. is also deceased. Mr. Rippey was again married in 1910 to Eva Blackwood, a native of this county. Mr. Rippey is a well known and highly respected gentleman whom to know is to admire.
To Mr. and Mrs. Hanson six children have been born, namely: Harold, whose birth occurred January 1, 1895; Grace, born March 31, 1896; Lars, born June 19, 1901; Louis, born August 30, 1902; Hollis, born October 7, 1907; James B., born August 2, 1910.
Politically, Mr. Hanson is a Republican and he has taken considerable interest in local affairs. He has served very acceptably as township trustee and as a member of the local school board. He and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church, of which they are liberal supporters.
Mr. Hanson has been very successful in a business way, laying by an ample competency for his declining years. He is the owner of five hundred and thirty-three acres of choice, productive and well improved land in Clear Creek township, eighty acres of desirable land in Independence township, this county, besides one hundred and sixty acres in Texas. He has two sets of excellent buildings on the land in Clear Creek township. His attractive, mod- ern home, commodious barns and outbuildings make his one of the finest country homes in Jasper county. Everything about the place not only denotes good taste and careful management, but thrift and prosperity, also. He car- ries on farming and stock raising on an extensive scale. He maintains all the modern comforts and conveniences in and at his home, such as an automo- bile, piano, etc., and his house is heated with hot water, installed with gas lights and many other up-to-date appliances. He is a director in the Exchange State Bank of Collins. He is interested in Percheron horses, having at the head of his stables the well known "Bismark," No. 40689, American register. Owing to their superior grade and quality, his fine horses never fail to bring fancy prices when offered for sale.
Personally, Mr. Hanson is a congenial, liberal, broad-minded, unassum- ing gentleman whom it is a pleasure to know.
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GEORGE A. MAGGARD.
To such a man as George A. Maggard, successful farmer of Clear Creek township, Jasper county, life is so real that he finds no time to plot either mis- chief or vice. Such men constitute the foundation of our republican institu- tions and are the pride of our civilization. Their lives are bound up in their duties ; they feel the weight of their citizenship, and take pleasure in sowing the seeds of uprightness. Such has been the career of the subject, who, not alone for these reasons, is eminently entitled to a place in his country's his- tory, but partly because he is one of the worthy native sons of this vicinity and the representative of one of the hardy pioneer families of the same. Thus he has lived to see and to play no inconspicuous part in the development of this favored section of the great Hawkeye state from the days of the seemingly interminable wild prairies to the opulent present with its fine residences and productive fields.
Mr. Maggard was born in Clear Creek township, Jasper county, Iowa, August 29, 1860, and, as intimated above, he grew to manhood here, was educated in the home schools and he has always been identified with the agricul- tural interests of this county. His father, Adam Maggard, was born in Indiana in 1832, and he died in Jasper county, Iowa, January 25, 1909, hav- ing come to Jasper county in 1845, when he was eighteen years of age. He was one of the earliest pioneers, having settled here before the county was even surveyed and when settlers were many miles apart, when there were numerous Indians and much wild game. He started in an humble manner, worked hard. underwent many hardships, and finally became well established and influential. He married Elizabeth Cuthbert, who was born in England, from which country she emigrated to the United States in early life and here met and married Mr. Maggard. She is still living, making her home with her son, George A. of this sketch, being now advanced in years.
There were seven children in the elder Maggard's family, namely : George A., of this review ; H. H., who resides in Baxter, is represented on an- other page of this work; Mary Neal, born August 21, 1864, lives at Adel, Iowa ; Charles H., born November 17, 1866, lives in Canada ; Sarah Jane, born August 3, 1869, died March 13, 1879; William C., born June 25, 1870, lives on the old home farm in Clear Creek township; Laura May Mark, born Octo- ber 6. 1875, lives in Missouri ; Walter A., born October 28, 1880, lives at Ash- land, Oregon. These children were all born in Clear Creek township and reared here.
Mr. Maggard of this sketch owns sixty acres of rich and well kept land
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in Clear Creek township, living in Ira with his mother, where he moved in 19II. He has a pleasant home which he keeps well supplied with current litera- ture, consequently he is a well informed man. He is independent in politics and has been school director.
The Maggards started in life here with no worldly goods, but they perse- vered and have made a comfortable living. They recall the days when oxen were used in farming and life in nearly every respect was different.
PETER J. COOL.
The gentleman to a review of whose honorable career we now call the attention of the reader is one of the representative citizens of Independence township, one of Baxter's substantial men, having maintained his home in this locality for a period of fifty-eight years or practically all his life, consequently he has been a witness of the wonderful growth of the same from the wild plains, having come here with his parents when the period of wolves and Indians was still on. He has worked hard and his efforts have been rewarded with a large measure of success all along the line.
Peter J. Cool was born in Freeport, Illinois, July 1, 1852, the son of John and Catherine Ann Elizabeth (Kline) Cool, the father born in New Jer- sey and the mother in Maryland. They grew up in the East and were married there, and after living for some time in Illinois, came to Jasper county, Iowa, in October, 1853, locating in Clear Creek township, spending the rest of their lives on a farm here, both being now deceased. They were the parents of two children, William H., born January 6, 1850, died at Mt. Pleasant in 1886; and Peter J., of this sketch.
Peter J. Cool grew up on his father's farm and assisted with the general work during his boyhood, attending the pioneer schools in the winter-time. He has met with success in a business way and has secured a competency, and today he is the owner of a number of valuable and desirable residence properties in Baxter besides two hundred and twenty-six acres of good land in North Dakota. At present he represents two fire and lightning insurance com- panies, the Iowa State, of Keokuk, and the Fidelity Phoenix, of Brooklyn, New York. For thirty-five years he followed carpentering.
Mr. Cool was married on March 27, 1878, to Lusina B. Stone, who was born in Wisconsin, on June 16, 1860, the daughter of R. N. and Emma (Carpenter) Stone, the father born in Pennsylvania and the mother in Ohio.
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They came to Iowa in an early day and both died in Maxwell, having attained an advanced age, and they passed from earthly scenes only a few hours apart, being buried in one grave at Collins, their funerals having been held at the same time. Mrs. Cool has two half-sisters, Mrs. Emma Scott and Mrs. Alice J. Kline. The eldest of the second family was Mrs. Cool, of this sketch; Lysander died in infancy; Mrs. Nettie E. Thompson; Charles is deceased; Mrs. Catherine Stevens ; Mrs. Audra Ferguson, deceased.
To Mr. and Mrs. Cool have been born six children, all living, named as follows : Mrs. Agnes Workman, born December 15, 1878, is residing in Baxter ; Mrs. Leola Allen, born August 2, 1880, is living near Baxter; Mrs. Jennie Goodwin, born January 27, 1882, is living in Independence township, this county ; Mrs. Winnifred Curyea, born December 16, 1883, lives at Parker, South Dakota; Mrs. Alphonse Gallager, born August 2, 1887, lives at home ; Mrs. Ethel Dodd, born November 30, 1891, is living in Eden township, Mar- shall county. These children were all born and reared in Jasper county.
Politically, Mr. Cool is a Democrat, and he has been active in local affairs, and has been signally honored by his fellow men. He has been treasurer of the independent school district of Baxter for twelve years; he has been town- ship clerk for six years, also constable for six years, and he was marshal of Baxter for four years. Fraternally, he is a member of Unit Lodge No. 520, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, of Baxter, and he belongs to Baxter Lodge No. 168. Knights of Pythias. He and four of his daughters belong to the Pythian Sisters of Baxter.
GEORGE CLINTON GOODHUE.
Since he came to Jasper county, over a half century ago, the gentleman of whom this sketch is penned has been a witness of very important changes in this vicinity, and his reminiscences of the early days here are most interesting and entertaining to a listener. But change is constant and general, genera- tions rise and pass unmarked away, and it is the duty of posterity as well as a . present gratification to place upon the printed page a true record of the lives of those who have preceded us on the stage of action and left to their de- scendants the memory of their struggles and achievements. The years of the honored subject are a part of an indissoluble chain which links the annals of the past to those of the latter-day progress and prosperity, and the history of Jasper county would not be complete without due reference to the long, use- ful and successful life Mr. Goodhue has lived, having been adequately re-
GEORGE C. GOODHUE
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warded as an earnest, courageous laborer in one of the most important fields of endeavor-agriculture. Generous and big-hearted, kindly in disposition, he has never lacked for friends, and many of them will pursue his life record, as written here, with deep interest.
George Clinton Goodhue, the oldest living resident of Malaka township, Jasper county, is the scion of a hardy and substantial New England family. He was born in Groton, Grafton county, New Hampshire, May 22, 1834, and there he grew to manhood and received such education as the early schools af- forded. He came west with his parents in 1854 and settled at Marengo, Iowa county, Iowa, where his father and uncle established the family home, and since then the Goodhues have maintained their residence in the Hawkeye state.
The subject is the son of David and Betsey (Warwick) Goodhue. The former, who was of English descent, was born in Groton, Grafton county, New Hampshire, in 1803, and he died in Jasper county, Iowa, in 1886; his wife was born in South Berwick, Maine, in 1811, and she died in Newton, Iowa, in 1907. Mrs. Betsey Goodhue had been previously married and two sons were born of the first union, James and Thomas Warwick, both now deceased. George Clinton Goodhue, of this sketch, was the oldest of the children born of her last union; the others were David Dexter, born April 13, 1837, lives in Newton, Iowa; Edward Payson, born March 7, 1839, also lives in Newton.
David Goodhue, father of the subject, purchased, in partnership with an uncle of the latter, six hundred acres of choice land upon their arrival in Jasper county in 1854, for which they paid the sum of three thousand dollars. They bought two hundred and forty acres of David Betz for the sum of fourteen hundred dollars, and three hundred and sixty acres of Isaac Cheno- weth for the sum of sixteen hundred dollars. At that time it was considered a very large sum for Iowa land. In 1856 the family settled in Malaka town- ship, where David Goodhue, the father, had purchased one hundred and ninety-five acres, for which he paid twenty-three hundred dollars, and here he became one of the substantial pioneer farmers and influential citizens.
The Goodhue family came west by railroad as far as Rock Island, Illi- nois, from which place the family walked the greater part of the way to Iowa City. They endured many of the hardships and privations encountered by all who cast their lot in a new country.
George Clinton Goodhue, of this sketch, grew to manhood on the home farm, where he found plenty to do as soon as lie was old enough to handle a
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hoe or look over the plow handles; but he was quite a boy when the family started the development of their Jasper county farm and did much in getting the raw land under a good state of cultivation, and he has continued to make his home in this county, with the exception of two years spent in Massachu- setts, where he followed the shoemaker's trade; he also learned the cooper's trade when a young man. Before he returned to Massachusetts he had pur- chased one hundred and twenty acres of land in Malaka township, for which he paid nine hundred dollars. This land is now a part of Mr. Goodhue's home farm. He owns two hundred acres of valuable and well improved land. He has been very successful as a general farmer and stock raiser and has a pleasant, well furnished home.
Mr. Goodhue was married on April 11, 1865, to Lefea S. Thomas, who was born in East Wheatland, Illinois, March 31, 1847, and she died in Jasper county, Iowa, August 17, 1885. She was the daughter of Ira B. and Mary (Munson) Thomas, both natives of New York, from which state they came to Mt. Vernon, Iowa, and lived there the rest of their lives, both being now . deceased. Mrs. Lefea S. Goodhue had one brother, Elihu B. Thomas, now deceased.
The following children have been born to Mr. Goodhue and wife: Mrs. Lizzie M. Farr, born in 1866, lives at Cummings. Iowa ; Elmer C., born July 30, 1869, is living in Malaka township, this county; Franklin Eugene, born in 1873, also lives in this township; Edward Falor, born July 5, 1878, is the youngest of the family. These children were born and reared in Jasper county and they attended the local schools.
Mr. Goodhue has taken an active interest in public affairs. He was the first constable of Malaka township, which office he filled with credit and sat- isfaction. He has also been road supervisor. He is a stanch Republican and he cast his first vote for John C. Fremont, "The Pathfinder." He is a mem- ber of the church at Wittemberg. He has so ordered his actions among his fellow men that he has retained the respect of all with whom he has come into contact.
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JAMES T. VEACH.
While the record of James T. Veach is, in the main, like that of many other men, a general mingling of life's joys and sorrows, triumphs and defeats, yet upon close scrutiny we find that he has been the exponent of right living all along the line and that success has not come to him undeserving, for he has been willing to put forth the proper effort and "hew true to the line,"
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and while he is not one of our largest farmers, his little place in Independence township is a model and ranks well with the best of Jasper county farms in point of productiveness and improvement.
Mr. Veach was born in Hendricks county, Indiana, July 26, 1851, but practically all his life has been spent in Iowa, whither he came with his par- ents in the fall of the year in which he was born, the family settling in Linn county. In 1852 they came on to Jasper county and here they have resided ever since, having seen and taken part in its development from the first stages of its progress to the present.
The father, Samuel Veach, was born in Virginia, August 17, 1828. He came to Indiana early in life and married Maria Jane Parks, who was born in the last named state on November 1, 1831. There they began life on a farm, but emigrated overland to the newer state of Iowa, as before indicated, and they spent their last days in Jasper county, the father's death occurring here on September 30, 1910, and the mother's death occurred on January 13, 19II. They were the parents of the following children : James T., of this re- view, is the eldest : Mrs. Mary J. Hitchler, born September 1, 1855, died in this county, on September 12, 1885 ; John William, born November 13, 1857, is living near Colfax, Iowa ; Mrs. Nancy A. Dales, born August 14. 1860, died in Jasper county ; Samuel H., born September 19, 1862, died May 8, 1893; Flora E., born April 16, 1865, died January 20, 1880, when fifteen years of age ; Mariah C., born October 6, 1868, died March 13, 1889; Charles C., born October 14, 1870, is living on the old homestead near Newton. These children were all reared in Jasper county.
James T. Veach grew up on his father's farm and when but a boy he assisted with the general work on the same; being the oldest child, he was compelled to lend a helping hand in rearing the smaller children, and, also, the farm being new it required a great deal of hard work by somebody to develop it; but all this training was good for him in later life, if it was some- what trying on his young spirit. On February 19, 1874, he was united in marriage with Martha J. Callison, who was born in Jasper county, December 6, 1858, and here she grew to womanhood. Her father, Andrew P. Callison, was born in Tennessee June 20, 1835, and early in life he came to Jasper county, Iowa, and when the Civil war broke out he enlisted at Newton in Company K, Fourteenth Iowa Volunteer Infantry, and was killed at the battle of Champion's Hill, May 18, 1863. His widow, known in her maidenhood as Amelia Draper, was born November 22, 1838, and is living in Baxter, Iowa. Their family consisted of five children, named as follows: James E., born March 7, 1856, is living at Newton and he owns the old homestead;
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George H., born May 21, 1859, lives in Des Moines; Martha J., wife of Mr. Veach of this sketch; Anderson L., born February 6, 1860, lives at Mt. Pleas- ant; Andrew P., born November 6, 1862, died February 9, 1863.
To Mr. and Mrs. Veach four children have been born as follows: Shelby C., born June 26, 1876, lives at Gering, Nebraska; Mrs. Clara O. Hampton, born February 23, 1878, lives in Jasper county ; James H., born November 30, 1880, died May 23, 1906; Charles S., born October 5, 1882, lives at Gering, Nebraska.
Mr. Veach has devoted his life to farming and he is now the owner of forty-three and one-half acres in Independence township, and on this he is making a very comfortable living, and he has a neat home and has laid by something for the rainy days ahead. He and his wife are members of the Reorganized Church of Latter-Day Saints. He has been a member of the local board of education and has been road supervisor.
PLEASANT HODGES.
One of the sterling and honored citizens of Independence township, Jas- per county, is Pleasant Hodges, the owner of one of the choice farms of his community. In the locality in which he has lived the better part of his life he is favorably looked upon as an upright and honest man and as an industrious farmer whose success is well deserved.
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