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Charles E. McIntire was educated in the schools of Neponset, Illinois. He was reared on the home farm, and upon coming to Iowa he took up farm- ing with his father. In about 1901 he bought one hundred and eighty-eight acres of the old homestead, and there he has been successfully engaged in general farming and stock raising. He is a feeder of shorthorn cattle for the market, and has kept the place well improved in every respect.
Politically, Mr. McIntire is a Republican. He and his wife are members of the Brotherhood of the American Yeomen lodge. His wife is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church.
Mr. McIntire was married in 1892 to Elizabeth Lowry, a native of Jas- per county and the daughter of James and Susannah Lowry, who spent their early lives in Indiana, moving from there to Minnesota, thence to Iowa, being among the early settlers in Poweshiek township, Jasper county. Mr. Lowry was a carpenter by trade, which he followed most of his life, but upon coming to Iowa he divided his attention between carpentering and farming, having bought a farm here. His death occurred on April 7, 1878. His widow is still
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living in Poweshiek township, being now advanced in years. Their family consisted of twelve children, ten of whom are living at this writing.
Four children were born to Mr. and Mrs. McIntire, namely : Ruth, a student in the West high school at Des Moines; Violet, Florence and Maud.
FREMONT LINCOLN TIFFANY.
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Upon the roll of representative citizens and energetic agriculturists of Clear Creek township, Jasper county, appears the name of Fremont Lincoln Tiffany, who has been a resident of this community since his advent into "the struggle which men call life," having never cared to risk the caprices of fate and fortune in other countries, well knowing that right here at home existed as good if not better opportunities than could be met with elsewhere. He has, practically unaided, worked his own way to a position of precedence in local affairs, while his conduct has ever been such as to inspire the confidence of those who have been thrown into contact with him.
Mr. Tiffany was born in the township where he still resides on August 18, 1860, and here he grew up on the home farm and was educated in the local schools. He is the son of Sylvester and Esther (Campbell) Tiffany, the father born in Erie county, New York, March II, 1825, and he came to Dubuque, Iowa, in 1842, and for a number of years worked in the lead mines of that place. In 1849 he came to Jasper county, but continued this journey, went to California, a member of that famous band of gold hunters, being one of thou- sands. He returned to Jasper county, Iowa, in 1853, and here continued to make this his home until his death, which occurred in Clear Creek township. . August 30, 1910, having reached an advanced age. He had outlived his wife over twenty years. She was born on November 21, 1831, came to Jasper county in 1855, and her death occurred at Colfax, this county, on April 3, 1889. Their family consisted of four children, two sons and two daughters, namely : Mrs. Martha R. Tripp, born May 27, 1858, lives at Colfax; Fremont L., of this review ; Franz Sigel, born July 4, 1864, lives in Clear Creek town- ship: Mrs. Mary Eliza Leonard lives in Boulder, Colorado. These children were all born at the homestead now occupied by the subject, who owns one hundred and twenty acres of the home farm and two hundred and thirteen acres near the hamlet of Clyde, known as the R. R. Hampton place. He has kept them both under a high state of improvement and cultivation and for a long time successfully carried on general farming and stock raising on a large scale. He has a pleasant home in the midst of attractive surroundings.
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On February 18, 1880, Mr. Tiffany was united in marriage with Mary Ellen Stock, who was born in Clear Creek township, this county, December 13, 1863, and here she was reared and educated, her mother and grandmother being among the earliest settlers of this vicinity, having come here in 1851. Her father, Joseph Stock, was born in Ohio, August 30, 1842, and his death occurred in Colfax, August 7, 1908. His wife was known in her maidenhood as Rachel DeWitt, and was born in Bradford county, Indiana, February 9, 1847, and she is still living at Colfax .. There were three children in this family, of which Mrs. Tiffany is the eldest; Joseph Riley Stock died in this township, October 23, 1888; Mrs. Leecy Ann Smith lives at Carpenter, Wyoming.
Five children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Tiffany, named as follows: Clara V., born March 23, 1882, was graduated from the high school at Colfax in the class of 1900, and she was graduated from Drake University in 1904 : she is still with her parents on the farm; Carl Tiffany was born May 9, 1884 and lives on his farm in Clear Creek township; Emma Alta, born May 21, 1886, who attended the Colfax high school, was taking a training course when she died at the Methodist hospital at Des Moines, while acting as nurse; Ray was born July 31, 1888, and is living in Collins township; Joseph Sylvester, born January 25, 1897, is at home, assisting his father with the farm work. Miss Clara Tiffany is in possession of the plat of Palmyra, an embryo city to be located on the E. H. Keyes farm, south of Clyde. This instrument is signed by Elias H. Keyes, William Suthern and Emeritta Southern, and Joseph Dodd, Jr., justice of the peace. It was signed Septem- ber 8, 1855. They also possess an "Arnold's Vocabulary," published in 1784.
Politically, Mr. Tiffany is a Republican, and he has been a member of the school board in his district. Fraternally, he belongs to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows at Mingo.
GEORGE CASTNER. .
The subject of this sketch holds prestige among the enterprising and respected agriculturists of Jasper county and those who have had occasion to look over his well tilled and modernly improved farm in Richmond town- ship are of the opinion that he is entitled to rank among our leading twentieth- century tillers of the soil. He is a man who has been trained to do well what- ever is worth doing at all and consequently his efforts have been justly crowned with success.
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Mr. Castner was born in Bureau county, Illinois, December 31, 1857, the son of S. M. and Mary (Hildebrandt) Castner. His maternal grand- parents, Joseph and Elizabeth Hildebrandt, were natives of New Jersey, but their parents were born in Germany, from which country they emigrated to America in the early days, locating in New Jersey. Joseph Hildebrandt died in that state, but his wife came west and spent many years in Jasper county, Iowa, then went to Illinois where she spent the last three years of her life at the home of her youngest son, Manuel Hildebrandt, dying near Prince- ton, at the ripe old age of ninety-nine years. The paternal grandparents of the subject came to Illinois from the East and died in Stark county, that state. But little is known of their early life.
S. M. Castner, father of the subject, was born, reared and educated in New Jersey and there he was married. He planned to devote his life to the legal profession, and studied law in his native state, but never practiced. About 1847 or 1848 he and his wife came to Illinois and located in Bureau county when the country was mostly a wilderness and Chicago was but a village. They developed a farm from the wild, on which they lived until 1866, in which year they moved to Jasper county, Iowa, and located in Rock Creek township, remaining there until 1877 when they moved to Mahaska county and there Mr. Castner still lives, having reached the advanced age of ninety- three years. His first wife died on November 20, 1874, and he subsequently married Mrs. Elizabeth Carlyle, who is still living. There were twelve chil- dren by the first union, seven of whom are supposed to be living at this writing.
George Castner attended school in Rock Creek township, this county, and in Grinnell township, Poweshiek county, also went to high school at Stew- art, Guthrie county. He returned to Jasper county and has made farming his life work, with the exception of seven years spent in Grinnell engaged in the manufacture of brick; however, most of this period has been lived in Powe- shiek county. In March, 1911, he bought an interest in a farm of two hun- dred acres in Richland township and here he is engaged in general farming and stock raising, being a breeder of Poland-China hogs and graded cattle.
Politically, Mr. Castner was a Republican up to ten years ago, since which time he has been an advocate of socialism; but, conditions having changed since then, he has now returned to the standard of the "grand old party." He has belonged to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows since 1882, having joined the same in Wataga, Illinois. In 1883 he joined Tecumseh Lodge at Kellogg, Iowa, later associating with the Grinnell lodge, with which he is still affiliated. He also belongs to the Modern Woodmen of America, which he joined in 1900. Mrs. Castner is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church.
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On August 23, 1883, Mr. Castner was united in marriage with Kate Marshall, a native of Illinois, and the daughter of John and Martha Marshall, who came to that state from Pennsylvania .:
Eight children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Castner, namely : Lucien Henry, who married Lois Turnman, lives at New Sharon; Lulu May was next in order of birth ; the third child died in infancy ; George A. is at home; the younger ones are, Elma, Leora, Edith Mercedes, Evan Marshall and Ruth Evelyn.
In 1877 Mr. Castner returned to Knox county, Illinois, and worked by the month for two years and then came back to Jasper county and bought eighty acres, which he later rented and returned to Knox county and worked for two years, being in the employ of two well known men there, the Niles brothers. Then in 1883 he came back to Iowa and has been here ever since. It was during his second trip to Illinois that he met his wife.
WILLIAM F. RIPPEY.
The best history of a community or state is the one that deals most with the lives and activities of its people, especially those who, by their own en- deavor and indomitable energy, have forged to the front and placed them- selves where they well deserve the title of progressive men. In the following paragraph will be found the record of one who has outstripped the less active plodders on the highway of life and achieved a career surpassed by few of his contemporaries, a career of marked success in agricultural affairs and a name which all who know him delight to honor owing to his upright life and habits of thrift and industry.
William F. Rippey, one of Jasper county's leading pioneer citizens, living on his beautiful farmstead near the viallage of Ira, was born in Kosciusko county, Indiana, April 9, 1838, and there he grew up and received what edu- cation he could in the schools of the early days. He is the son of Joseph and Elizabeth (Jeffries) Rippey. The father, born in Henry county, Indiana, died in Kosciusko county, that state, at the early age of thirty-four years. The mother, who was born in Rush county, that state, came to Iowa late in life and her death occurred in Independence township, Jasper county, at the age of seventy-six years. Their family consisted of five sons, four of whom fought for the preservation of the Union during the Civil war, William F., of this review, being the eldest; Matthew J. was killed at the battle of Cham- pion's Hill; James Allen received wounds at the battle of Jonesboro from
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which he died a few days later; John was captured during the service, but was paroled; after the war he came to Iowa and became owner of the land where the town of Baxter now stands, and finally died while in Indiana on a visit ; Milton D. died when twenty-two years of age. The four step-brothers, Wilson, Charles, Winfield and Allen, were all Union soldiers, and they are now all deceased but the youngest, who lives at Manchester, Indiana, and Winfield, who lives in Kosciusko county, Indiana.
When a young man William F. Rippey came to Iowa, reaching Jasper county in March, 1854, and he located on a farm of one hundred and twenty acres which he entered from the government, and established his permanent home near the town of Marietta, when this country was all a wild prairie, his nearest neighbor being four miles distant, but, being a man of excellent fore- sight, he knew that this was to be a rich and populous country as the years advanced. He traded his first farm for one hundred and sixty acres where the village of Ira now stands. He was at this time only. seventeen years old. Not many youngsters would have displayed so much courage and business sagacity. In order to get a start he went to Greene county, this state, where he worked two years. In 1857 he began breaking prairie, and he hauled the timber that went into the construction of the first court house in Greene county. He then returned to Indiana and attended school, but his funds becoming ex- hausted he went back to Iowa, where he has since made his home continuously. Working hard and economizing and managing well, he prospered and added to his original purchase as the years advanced until he at one time owned one thousand acres of valuable land. Not caring to be burdened in his declining years with the care of so much land, he now retains six hundred and fifty acres, all well improved and well cultivated, in fact, his home place is one of the model farms of this part of the county. The rest of his land he gave to his children, to each eighty acres. He has a modern, substantial and beautiful home. among its equipment being one of the best private libraries in the county. He has kept well abreast of the times in all matters relating to the world's affairs.
William F. Rippey was one of the patriotic sons of the North who gave his services to the Union in the great conflict between the states, having en- listed at Newton, Iowa, in Company I, Tenth Iowa Volunteer Infantry, in which he served with much credit for a period of three years under Generals Sullivan, Logan and Sherman. His regiment was among the troops that captured five thousand prisoners at Tiptonville, and he was in the siege of Vicksburg and the following battles: Shiloh, Corinth, Champion's Hill, Big Black River, Jackson, Iuka, Raymond, Missionary Ridge, Decatur, New
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Madrid, Charleston, Bloomfield, Holly Springs. Upon his retirement from the service he received an honorable discharge.
Mr. Rippey was united in marriage on July 6, 1859, to Ann Armsworth, who was born in Kosciusko county, Indiana, April II, 1838, there being but one intervening day between her birth and that of Mr. Rippey. She was the daughter of Willis and Ann (Clifton) Armsworth, natives of Pennsylvania and Ohio, respectively. The father died in Indiana and the mother came to Jasper county, Iowa, and lived in Independence township until her death. They were the parents of two sons and four daughters, all now deceased except the youngest daughter, Mary Crawford, Mrs. Rippey having passed away on June 23, 1908.
Eight children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Rippey, namely: Mrs. Fan- nie E. Lowe, born February 18, 1861, died May 2, 1886, at Salubra, Idaho; Mrs. Elizabeth A. Parker, born June 30, 1865, lives in Sherman township, this county; Mrs. Edna Hansen, of Clear Creek township, born March 7, 1867; Mrs. Martha Byall, born December 3, 1868, lives in Clear Creek town- ship, this county ; Francis J., born March 18, 1870, lives near Ira, this county ; Frederick Grant, born September 10, 1872, died February 9, 1873; Mary, born December 18, 1873, died in September, 1874; Jessie M., born February 12, 1874, died February 23, 1907. They were all born in this township, and those reaching maturity grew up here.
Mr. Rippey was again married in November, 1910, to Eva Blackwood, who was born in Jasper county, Iowa, May 25, 1867. Her father, Birch Blackwood, resides at Newton, her mother having died near that city.
Politically, Mr. Rippey is a Republican, a member of the Methodist church and of Lodge No. 520, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, at Baxter. He has held all the local township offices, having been township trustee for sixteen years. He has always taken a deep interest in any public enterprise and his duties as a public servant reflected much credit upon himself and elicited the hearty approval of all concerned. He is a man of straightforward, generous and wholesome impulses, whom to know is to respect and admire.
THOMAS A. STREETER.
This honored pioneer is to be designated as one of the progressive and influential citizens of Clear Creek township, Jasper county, where, for more than a half century, he has maintained his home, figuring as one of the build- ers of the community and is especially worthy of consideration in this work.
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In many ways he has lent his time and influence in the promulgation of various uplifting movements, and he ably served his country during the Civil war.
Mr. Streeter was born in Luzerne county, Pennsylvania, September 15. 1840. He came with his parents to Ohio when four years old, coming o11 with the family in 1858 to Clear Creek township, Jasper county, Iowa, and with the exception of three years spent in Missouri he has continued to reside here. He is the son of Henry and Lydia (Faulkner) Streeter, both born in the state of New York, the mother in Delaware county, on October 28, 1811, and the father was born on November 15, 1808. They grew up in the Empire state and there were married and spent the early part of their lives, coming to Jasper county, Iowa, in an early day and developed a farm, dying in Clear Creek township, the mother on November 29, 1877, and the father on June 21, 1892. Their family consisted of the following children: Mrs. Mary Ann Beard-Stratton, born in New York, April 24, 1835, died May 2, 1912; Mrs. Eurelia Jane Ashton, born January 12, 1837, died in March, 1912; Mrs. Eliza Emeline Harsh-Cox, born May 19, 1839, is living in Colfax; Thomas A., of this sketch; Edward Murray, born November 2, 1842, died June 8, 1910: Chloe Adelia, born January 17, 1845. died in infancy ; George Henry, born September 27, 1847, died in Des Moines in 1902; James Monroe, born November 11, 1850, is living near Denver, Colorado; William Anson, born March 30, 1853, lives near Omaha, Nebraska; Mrs. Lydia Rosella Snyder, born August 30. 1856, is living in Colfax. These children were reared in Jasper county, Iowa.
Thomas A. Streeter grew up on his father's farm and worked hard on the same when a boy, experiencing the usual hardships of the average boy in a new country. „On February 7, 1861, he was united in marriage with Eliza- beth Stock, who was born in Summit county, Ohio, September 22, 1841. From there she came with her parents, James and Sarah (McCloughan) Stock, overland to Jasper county, Iowa, in 1856, this being one of the pioneer families here. Her father was born in England, August 1, 1815, and her mother was born in Pennsylvania, August 29, 1818; they spent the latter half of their lives in Clear Creek township, this county, the death of Mr. Stock occurring in August, 1902, his wife having passed away on February 8. 1899.
To Mr. and Mrs. James Stock eleven children were born, namely: Mrs. Catherine Priest, born March 1, 1840, died August 19, 1911; Mrs. Elizabeth Streeter, of this sketch; Richard, born November 30, 1842, is deceased ; Mrs. Sarah Ann Streeter, born July 7. 1844, is living in Clear Creek township, this county ; James, born in 1845, lives in Jasper county ; George Washington is also living here; Mrs. Mary Evans lives in Colfax; Zachary T. lives in
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California; Mr. Cass Stock died in 1883; Mrs. Ann D. Day, of Marysville, Missouri.
To Mr. and Mrs. Thomas A. Streeter have been born seven. children, three of whom are living, namely: Sarah E. died in 1866, when four years old; Thomas A., Jr., born September 16, 1866, died at the age of one year ; Mrs. Lydia Mills, born July 18, 1868, lives in Clear Creek township; Eliza Jane died when ten years of age, October 28, 1881; Mrs. Ann Emeline Leonard, born April II, 1875, lives in Warren county, Iowa ; Mrs. Edna May Funk lives in Nevada, Iowa; James Henry, born March 29, 1878, died when four years of age, on December 15, 1881. These children were born in Clear Creek township, this county, with the exception of Eliza, who was born in Collins township, Story county.
Mr. Streeter enlisted for service for the Union at Clyde, this county, and was mustered in at Camp Pope, Iowa City, August 22, 1862, and he started to the front as corporal of Company E, Fortieth Iowa Volunteer Infantry, in which he served with much credit until the close of the war, when he was honorably discharged at Fort Gibson, Indian Territory. He participated in the siege of Vicksburg, in the capture of Little Rock, and was in the engage- ments at Okalona, Elkin's Ford, Prairie D'Anne, Moscow, Camden, Marks Mills and Jenkins Ferry.
Mr. Streeter has devoted his life to farming and he is the owner of forty acres in Clear Creek township where he has a pleasant home and on which he has made a good living.
Politically, he is a Democrat; he has been road supervisor and school director. He is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, the E. H. Keyes Post at Mingo.
Mr. Streeter tells many interesting things of the early days here. Some- thing of the hard life of those who braved the wilds of Jasper county may be gained from the following incident, one of many in his experience. When a young man he started to mill with eighteen bushels of buckwheat, which he first hauled to Newton and back, thirty-two miles; then to Des Moines and back, fifty miles; then hauled it to Peoria, Polk county, and from there to Pella, and, returning, left it at Pella to be ground, later returning for the ground product, making in his last trip one hundred and eighty miles or a total distance of two hundred and sixty-two mlies. Few of the rising genera- tion would have the courage and stick-to-itiveness to succeed in a country where such trials were common.
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DANIEL HALEY.
There could be no more comprehensive history written of a city or county, or even of a state and its people, than that which deals with the life work of those who, by their own endeavor and indomitable energy, have placed them- selves where they well deserve the title of "progressive," and in this sketch will be found the record of one who has outstripped the less active and less able plodders on the highway of life, one who has not been subdued by the many obstacles and failures that come to everyone, but who has made them stepping-stones to higher things and at the same time that he was winning his way in the material affairs of life gained a reputation for uprightness and honor.
Mr. Haley was born at Benson, Vermont, August 15, 1848, the son of Patrick and Bridget (Foley) Haley, both born in Ireland, where they grew up and from which country they emigrated to the United States in early life, established a good home in Vermont and both died there. Their family con- sisted of ten children, an equal number of sons and daughters, the sons all soldiers in the Union army during the Civil war; these children were named as `follows : Mrs. Margaret Logan, deceased; Mrs. Catherine Gilligan, de- ceased; Thomas was shot and killed in the army by a sharpshooter while in the act of writing a letter to his wife; Mrs. Hannah Elliott, deceased ; Mrs. Bridget Landers, deceased; Edward was shot in the battle of the Wilderness, was captured and died in Libby prison ; Mrs. Mary Elliott lives in Moline. Illinois ; James died at the soldiers' home at Tilton, New Hampshire ; John's residence is unknown; Daniel, of this sketch, is the youngest.
The record of the subject as a soldier is one of which his family may well be proud. He enlisted in Company I, Seventeenth Vermont Volunteer Infantry, March 31, 1864, and he served with much credit until the close of the war, receiving an honorable discharge, having been only fifteen years and eight months old at the time of his enlistment, but he went through it all with · the courage of a veteran. He was at the capture of the Weldon railroad, and the battles of Poplar Grove, Hatcher's Run, siege of Petersburg and Richmond and was present at the surrender of Appomattox, April 9. 1865. After being honorably discharged he returned home and took up farming for a livelihood, and later came to Jasper county, Iowa, where he has become one of our leading farmers, now owning three hundred and forty acres of well improved and productive land in Clear Creek township, on which stand two good sets of buildings, and he has been very successful as a general farmer and stock raiser.
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