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of Iowa county), Martha A. (born January 31, 1855, and married October 22, 1875, to Eugene S. Daly, a minister of the Iowa M. E. Conference), William H. (born February 8, 1857), James R. (born May 27, 1859), Cath- arine C. (born April 14, 1862) and Josiah C. (born May 10, 1864). Mr. Correll was licensed to preach by the M. P. Church, Pittsburgh Annual Conference, in Pennsylvania, November 12, 1842, and regularly ordained deacon September 11, 1847, and to elder's orders September 9, 1852, by the authority of the same church in the Iowa Annual Conference. He was first appointed to Burlington Mission, December 21, 1844, and two years afterward was appointed to serve the church at Oskaloosa, which circum- stances compelled him to forego. In 1852 he joined the Iowa Annual Con- ference, then but recently organized, and was sent to Montezuma Circuit, which then comprised a territory of about twenty miles in all directions from the central point. For this two years of unceasing labors on this circuit he received but $140. He then went to farming, and purchased his present place. Mr. Correl may be properly reckoned among the hard- worked pioneer preachers of the Northwest, often denying himself to pros- ecute his calling amid the darkest clouds and deepest discouragements. In addition to his labors as a son of toil, often working as a son of the gos- pel, without hope of compensation.
COX, CHRISTOPHER-Section 22, P. O. Deep River. His grand- father Cox was probably of German descent, but born in America, and was a farmer. His mother's father was a Scotchman, and came from his native country to this to fight in the Revolutionary War. His father's name was Ephraim, and he was born in Jefferson county, Ohio, on the 25th of July, 1802. He was a prosperous farmer in his native State, and emi- grated with his family to this State, in October, 1854. His family con- sisted of Mary J. (afterward Mrs. Cochran), Robert, Samuel F., Christopher, Sarah A. (afterward Mrs. Farmer, now living in Iowa county), Margaret (afterward Mrs. John Wherry) and George. Besides these one daughter, Nancy (who married George Huffman and settled in Delaware county, Indiana). The spring before his emigration the father visited this county and took up 400 acres of land from the government, and subsequently pur- chased 140 acres from Albert Morgan, just east of Dresden, where he lived until his death, which occurred on the 13th of March, 1862. His large estate was equally divided among his children. In 1855 this old settler built one of the first mills in the county, and run it successfully two or three years, when he sold it and farmed for the remainder of his life. His son Samuel was instantly killed by the explosion of the boiler belonging to this mill, on the 13th of August, 1856. The subject of this sketch,
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Christopher, was born on the 13th of June, 1832, in Ohio, and was educa- ted in his native State. He chose for his first wife Miss Mary E. Morgan, who was a native of Ogle county, Illinois. His children by this lady are as follows: Samuel (born May 6, 1859, and died June 4, 1864), William E. (born February 18, 1861), Margaret E. (born May 17, 1862), Mary (born in May of 1864, and died the following January). Mrs. Cox died the 16th of May, 1864, and Mr. Cox re-married the 10th of May, 1866. Miss Mary E. Rosecrans became his second wife, and she was also a native of Ogle county, Illinois, and was born the 7th of September, 1842. The fruits of this union were: George E. (born April 15, 1867), Clement L. (born January 19, 1869), Lela E. (born March 1, 1873), Emma J. (born May 12, 1874), Roy A. (born August 3, 1877) and Inez L. (born March 14, 1879). Mr. Cox owns 690 acres of good farming land. He is an extensive dealer in lumber and grain in the village of Thornburg; has dealt largely in stock, and still pays some attention to that business. He is free from debt.
COX, GEORGE-Section 9, P. O. Deep River. He was born in Guern- sey county, Ohio, on the 9th of March, 1839. He came to this county in his boyhood, with his father, Ephriam Cox, and has lived in Deep River township ever since. He married Miss Catharine Funk, the 7th of March, 1866. She is the daughter of Michael Funk, and was born the 27th of Oc- tober, 1848, in Ogle county, Illinois. Her father was born the 15th of March, 1823, and emigrated to this county directly from Ogle county, Illi- nois, on the 10th of July, 1854. Mr. and Mrs. Cox have had four children, as follows: Unnamed male (born January 21, 1867, deceased), Cloyd North (born December 26, 1868), Irwin Roy (born January 19, 1872, and died April 1, 1874) and Alma Margaret (born November 10, 1875). Mr. Cox owns 440 acres of excellent farming land, is free from debt, and is one of the most highly respected citizens of his township.
COX, ROBERT-Section 6, P. O. Deep River. He was born in Har- rison county, Ohio, September 30, 1826. Remained with his father until his twenty-seventh year, when he emigrated to Iowa county, Iowa, preced- ing his father one year, and taking up 160 acres of land from the govern- ment. In May, 1868, he moved to his present place. Besides those whose biographies appear in this book, his other brother and sisters were born as follows: Nancy (born April 10, 1825), Samuel F. (born July 9, 1830), Sarah Ann (born June 14, 1834) and Margaret (born July 19, 1836.) Mr. Cox married July 7, 1859, Miss Lucinda Light, of Deep River township, this county. Five children have been born to them, all of whom died in infancy. Mr. Cox owns 154 acres of land including ten acres of timber. CRANSTON, WESLEY-Section 11, P. O. Deep River. His father
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was born in Ireland, in 1790, and came to America when fourteen years old, settling in Chester county, Pennsylvania, where he married Anna Cum- mings, who was a native of Delaware. In 1812 he removed to Guernsey county, Ohio, where he was proprietor of a large farm until his death in 1875. Wesley was born in Guernsey county, Ohio, July 20, 1827. He was educated in his native county, and worked at home until his majority was attained, when he received a good horse from his father, and otherwise un. aided, began the foundation of his present prosperity. In 1864, he immi- grated to Iowa and bought and cultivated 240 acres of land. He purchased and moved to his present place in 1872. He married August 17, 1848, Rebecca Borton, of Guernsey county, Ohio, who was born March 4, 1825. They have raised five children: Wm. T. (born August 3, 1849, married Mary Bucher), Rueben B. (born December 7, 1850, married Ada Morgan), Jas. H. (born October 6, 1854), Ann Elizabeth (born September 6, 1857) and C. B. (born May 2, 1860). One son, James, deserves special mention for characteristic energy and enterprise, which have crowned him early with an uncommon prosperity. Beginning with the small sum of money obtained by the sale of a bushel of hickory nuts he had gathered, now, at the age of but twenty-six years, he is the owner of several hundred acres of fertile land in California, where he lives and drives a flourishing business. Mr. Cranston owns 108¿ acres, including his excellent farm and fifty acres of timber. He has deeded eighty acres each to his two oldest sons. His place is well stocked, unembarrassed and in splendid condition. The sur- roundings of his residence bear marks of native taste, intelligence and culture.
CRANE, GEORGE-Section 35, P. O. Thornburg. Three brothers emigrated from England to America together, one settling in Pennsylva- nia, one in New Jersey and one in Connecticut. He is probably descended from the latter. His grandfather Crane was born in New Haven, Con- necticut, October 7, 1790; followed his father's trade of blacksmithing, in connection with some farming, all his life; fought in the War of 1812, and died in Morrow county, Ohio, in 1862. His father (Alson B.) was born, one of nine children, in Putnam county, New York, April 25, 1814; raised a farmer and blacksmith; enlisted in company F, Thirty-fourth Illi- nois volunteers, and participated in the battle of Pittsburg Landing; was in the hospital at Louisville, Kentucky, 111 days, during six weeks of which time his wife was with him, and received his honorable discharge February 9, 1863, his health having been permanently impaired in the army; mar- ried in Bennington township, Morrow county, Ohio, August 22, 1835, Mary A. Wilson, who was born in Morrow county, Ohio, August 4, 1817,
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and emigrated to the present family home July 18, 1866; owns a well stocked farm of eighty acres; and has raised a family as follows: Adelia M. (born April 1, 1836; married December 10, 1854, to George Yates, who died June 7, 1877), Albasinda (born April 3, 1838, died November 5, 1838), Susan (born October 9, 1840, died July 1, 1841), Amza (born June 14, 1842, married Achsah Baily, who died January 14, 1872, and he remarried in June, 1872, Elizabeth McDonald, the widowed sister of his first wife), Zebulon (born August 25, 1844, married in June, 1867, Jane Shearer), and George, the subject of this sketch. He was born in Taylor township, Ogle county, Illinois, January 7, 1853; was raised in Gran Detour, Illinois, where he attended school until thirteen years old. He married in Prairie town- ship, Keokuk county, Iowa, December 28, 1876, Zearalda Miner, of that township, who was born in Jefferson county, Indiana, September 26, 1864, They have the following children: Harry H. (born July 25, 1877), Charles H. (born April 8, 1879, died September 30, 1879), and Mary (born Au- gust 12, 1880). Mr. C. owns the west half of the northeast quarter of section 35, of Deep River township, comprising eighty acres of good land. He is serving his township as school director, and is a young man of en- terprise, frugality, and energy, upon whose brow the goddess of fortune will ultimately place a golden crown.
CRIETZ, SAMUEL F .- Section 28, P. O. Deep River. His ancestors for many generations back were born in this country, and are of the stock known as Pennsylvania Germans. He was born in Lehigh county, Penn- sylvania, on the 9th of November, 1836. He was raised a farmer lad, and when twenty-three years of age enlisted in the Fifty-fourth Pennsylvania volunteers, as a member of the brass band of the regiment. He served his country about one year, when he was honorably discharged two years be- tore the expiration of his term of his enlistment. Shortly after returning home he made a temporary visit to his brother, who was serving the govern- ment as army quartermaster, and, at the time stationed at Middletown, Ten- nessee. After roaming about this place, going on foraging expeditions every short day in the interest of the soldiers' stomachs, he returned home, and in a time immigrated to this State in 1866, first settling in Muscatine county, and afterward upon his present place. Mr. Crietz married March 12th, 1865, Miss Louisa Wildisan. They have three children: Samuel Franklin (born in Muscatine county, Iowa, August 17, 1866), Mary Ellen (born in Muscatine county, Iowa, August 8, 1868), and Hattie Elizabeth (born in this county, March 12, 1872). Mr. Crietz owns 480 acres of good farming land, including about fifty acres of excellent timber, on which is situated one of the most beautiful homes in the county. He enjoys the confidence
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and esteem of his neighbors as a man of honor and unyielding business integrity.
CRISWELL, WILLIAM H. H .- Section 1, P. O. Deep River. His great- grandfather Criswell came from Ireland, and his mother's ancestors were from Scotland. Both his grandfathers fought under General Washington. During the latter part of the War of 1812, his grandfather, with a party of sixteen others, attempted to emigrate to Ohio, making their way down the Ohio River on a keel-boat. On the way, they were surprised and captured by the Indians; not, however, without a brave struggle, during which Mr. Criswell shot four Indians and wounded the chief. Having observed this, after the capture had been accomplished, the chief walked up to him with upraised tomahawk, with the intention of dashing out his brains. Without a quiver, Mr. Criswell gazed cooly and steadfastly into the warrior's mur- derous eye. The chief was conquered, and instead of driving the weapon through his skull, patted him on the head with it, and complimented him with the remark: "Brave white man." The entire party, including Mr. Criswell, his wife and four children, were then marched on foot through the wilderness of Indiana, cruelly treated and almost starved on the way, to where Detroit, Michigan, now stands, when they were sold to the British for three dollars per head. During the skirmish the party threw over- board all their kitchen utensils, and two years later, thirteen of their num- ber, Mr. Criswell among them, passing the same point, recovered many of the articles from the bottom of the river, the place having been marked by a range of trees. One of the recovered pieces, an iron kettle, is a family heirloom now in possession of the subject of this sketch. This kettle also enjoys the distinction of having been cast in the first iron works (the Juni- etta) ever projected in the United States. Mr. Criswell's father (James) was born in Brown county, Ohio, in 1799, farmed all his life, and died March 31, 1869. His mother, whose maided name was Lucretia Ross, was born in Durbin county, Indiana, May 11, 1806, and died in Rock Island, Illinois, September 10, 1880. William was born in Ripley county, Indiana, September 2, 1836. When six years old, his father moved to Rock Island county Illinois, where he was raised on a farm, and educated. He emi- grated to his present place March 11, 1880. He married, in Rock Island county, Illinois, May 21, 1865, Miss Mary L. Bromley of New York, who was born in Otsego county, New York, February 17, 1843. They have had eight children; six of whom are living: Cora P. (born March 6, 1867), Anna J. (born March 22, 1869), Clara B. (born January 13, 1871), Lillie May (born December 11, 1872) and James G. (born February 22, 1878). Lost two: William E. (born December 12, 1874, died April 18, 1880) and
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an infant. Mr. Criswell owns 115 acres of excellent land, 100 acres of which are under good cultivation and well stocked; the other fifteen acres being in timber.
CRONE, JOSEPH, JR .- Section 16, P. O. Deep River. His father, Joseph Crone, was among the earliest settlers of this county, and was born in York county, Pennsylvania, November 14, 1800. He followed shoe- making for about thirty-eight years, when he returned to the occupation of his youth and has farmed ever since. He married April 7, 1822, Miss Sarah J. Watts, of Pennsylvania, who died in August, 1831, leaving five children. He again married June 17, 1832, Miss Jane Burns, who is the mother of Joseph, Jr. The subject of this sketch was born July 5, 1850, in Huntingdon county, Pennsylvania. His father having emigrated to this county when he was four years old, he has lived here ever since the fall of 1854. He married Miss Nancy A. Taylor of Deep River township March 13, 1877, and they have two children: Nellie Samantha (born March 12, 1878) and Maggie (born January 1, 1880). Mr. Crone is a temperance man and a straight Republican.
CUTTING, MRS. GEORGE W .- Section 24, P. O. Deep River. Her maiden name was Mary Ann McBride, and she was born May 24, 1818, in Belmont county, Ohio, and was raised in New Athens, Ohio. She was married October 2, 1837, to Emmor Bales, of Uniontown, who was born in Virginia, December 25, 1801; he was a prosperous mechanic; served as justice of the peace in Uniontown for fifteen years; was a gentleman of scholarly attainments; a class-leader in the Methodist Episcopal Church, and a zealous christian. He emigrated to this State in 1863, and a few years later moved to Illinois, where, in Henderson county, he died, May 14, 1870, leaving six children: Wilson S. (born August 4, 1839; married), Rebecca J. (born August 17, 1845; married John Keslor), George W. (born August 3, 1849; married Emily Hubbell), Oscar K. (born August 22, 1852; married Frankie Rosecrans), Emmor (born November 12, 1856) and Anna V. (born July 17, 1860). She married in Victor, Iowa, October 9, 1878, to George W. Cutting, a minister of the Baptist Church who was born in Vermont, January 24, 1805. He was converted in his thirteenth year; secured a good education; was licensed to preach on his twenty-fifth birthday, and entered upon an active ministerial life, having charge success- ively of different churches of his denomination in New Hampshire and Vermont. He came to Iowa and entered on the present estate about 1868. Here, in addition to his farming, he became exceedingly popular as a preacher of broad and liberal views, and died April 7, 1880. His first marriage was with Emily Hunt who was born July 12, 1806; she bore
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him: Eliza A. (born March 3, 1828; married James L. Cook, June 7, 1849), James Colman (born September 25, 1832) and George W. (born August 6, 1837; married Jane McGowin, November 24, 1864). His first wife died September 8, 1838; and on January 22, 1840, he married Hannah Rowell, to whom one child (Emily H.) was born (July 31, 1841; now the wife of Dr. E. E. Ennis), and she (the second wife) died April 19, 1877. Mr. Cut- ting left his entire estate, including an excellent farm of eighty acres, to the care of his widow until final adjustments are made. He was a man whose pure christian character and great popularity make his death felt and lamented, not only by his family, but by all who knew him.
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ILLON, PETER C .- Section 24, P. O. Deep River. His grand- father was probably from Ireland, but married a German lady. His father (John) was born December 18, 1803, in Fiat county, Pennsylvania, and in his boyhood he emigrated with his parents to Belmont county, Ohio, where he was raised on a farm and educated, and where he married, De- cember 25, 1830, Jane Badd, a lady of Scotch-Irish descent, who was born October, 1809; and in 1856 they emigrated to Iowa, and in 1859 to Deep River township, this county, where, at his residence, in Dresden, he died suddenly of heart disease, August 7, 1880. Peter, one among six children, was born September 14, 1838, in Belmont county, Ohio, where he was raised on a farm and educated. Emigrating with his father to Iowa, he farmed one year in Cedar county, when he came to this county, where his father entered 160 acres of land. In August, 1862, he enlisted in company C of the Twenty-eighth Iowa infantry; participated in the battles of Port Gibson, Champion's Hill, Seige of Vicksburg, and Cedar Creek, besides numerous skirmishes. At Port Gibson he received a wound in his left leg, and, during the summer of 1864 he was confined to the hospital. He contracted rheumatism while in the army from which his health is perma- nently impaired. He received his honorable discharge in August, 1865, when he returned to the family estate, on which he has farmed and lived ever since. He married, March 17, 1867, Martha E. Ferneau, of Pleasant township, who was born in Pike county, Ohio, August 24, 1848. To them have been born: Mary B. (born January 15, 1868; Tena Jane (born Octo- ber 30, 1870), Sadie (born September 20, 1872; died November 7, 1876), Olive M. (born May 30, 1877) and John E. (born May 13, 1879). Mr. and Mrs. Dillon own eighty acres of good farming land, which is in a fine state of cultivation and unencumbered.
E HRET, WILLIAM-Section 30, P. O. Tilton. His parents were natives of Germany, and born in Baden, but were married in this country. His father still lives, and is eighty years old. William was
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born in Erie county, Pennsylvania, June 14, 1833; was raised on a farm, and educated in a German school. When sixteen, his father gave him money to travel with, and he went pretty much everywhere, winding up in Illinois, where he went into the nursery business for five years. In the fall of 1859 he emigrated to his present place, where he has prospered. He helped to build the first and all other school-houses ever built in his township. He married in Bloomington, Illinois, on the 22d of August, 1859, Miss Catharine C. Lynk, of New Rutland, Illinois, who was born in Columbia county, New York, April 4, 1838. They have nine children: Mary E. (born May 13, 1860), Frank A. (born April 5, 1862), Charles H. (born February 20, 1864), Fred W. (born May 5, 1866), George W. (born April 29, 1868), Edward E. (born November 10, 1870), Curtis J. (born March 1, 1873), Emma E. (born December 20, 1874) and Anna Lillian (born February 4, 1877). He owns 317 acres, and is out of debt.
ENNIS, DR. EDGAR H .-- A physician of high standing, who resides at Dresden. Was born in Berlin, Worcester county, Maryland, August 30, 1835. He was raised a farmer boy, and his advantages of education were quite limited; nevertheless, he aspired to an education, and his knowledge, attainments, and success in life are due to his own unaided efforts. Before reaching his majority he had acquired some little education at the public school in his neighborhood. Upon attaining the age of manhood he chose the medical profession as his course in life, for which purpose he attended the Medical College of Ohio, located at Cincinnati, during the years 1856-7, after which time he returned to his native place, where for the next three years he was engaged in reading medicine in the office of a practitioner. In the spring of 1861 he came to Iowa and begun the practice of his pro- fession in South English, Keokuk county, where he soon gained a large practice. In 1864 the Doctor removed to this county and immediately en- tered upon an extensive practice. Dr. Ennis has been twice married -- his first wife being Miss Huldah C. Sprague, of Ohio, whom he married March 12, 1863, and by whom he had three children: Maud V. (born May 10, 1865), Elizabeth Ettie (born January 20, 1867; died March 8, 1870) and Edgar O. S. (born February 4, 1870). His first wife died August 8, 1871. His second wife is Miss Emily H. Cutting, of Deep River township, whom he married February 1, 1872, and by whom he has had three children: Ettie E. (born April 17, 1873), George H. (born September 3, 1874; died January 21, 1875) and May E. H. (born March 10, 1876). The Doctor owns, besides his residence, two town lots and eighty acres of good farming land.
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EVANS, DAVID S .-- Section 22, P. O. Deep River. He was born in Jefferson county, Ohio, June 17, 1823. His mother died during his in- fancy, and his father when he was six years old. He was bound to a Qua- ker, Michael Yost, with whom he lived until he was fifteen years old, when he learned carpentering with his brother, William. He emigrated directly from Ohio to Iowa, in the fall of 1846, and lived the first winter in Hickory Grove, while he built a house on two acres of land he had purchased in Deep River township, to which he moved the following spring. Here he lived, working for himself and others, until he traded for his present place. He moved his house from C. Cox's farm, and first occupied it in the spring of 1871. He married, in Jefferson county, Ohio, October 17, 1850, Miss Mary B. Cepehart, who was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, September 28, 1834. Their children are: Rosella A. (born February 2, 1852; died November 8, 1876), Clarence J. (born June 17, 1855), Lydia W. (born May 22, 1859; married December 19, 1878, to Martin H. Wolf), Elizabeth Viola (born in 1863; died May 7, 1866), Sarah (born September 22, 1869) and William (born June 22, 1873). Mr. E. owns forty acres of good farming land, and is an honest, industrious and hard-working man.
F UNK, MRS. ISAAC-Section 22, P. O. Deep River. Her maiden name was Mary Ann Myerly. Was born in Carroll county, Mary- land, April 15, 1842. Her husband was born in the same county, January 20, 1837, and they were married December 1, 1859, in Ogle county, Illinois. The fruits of their union are: Martha J. (born June 24, 1861; married December 28, 1879, to Joseph S. McKee), John P. (born March 15, 1863), David (born April 17, 1865), Samuel W. (born December 25, 1867), Ida M. (born April 2, 1870), Mary E. (born August 6, 1872) and Emma E. (born June 17, 1878). Mr. Funk was raised on a farm, and educated in Ogle county, Illinois, where his father settled when he was three years old. His father died when he was fifteen years old, and he then lived with his brother William until of age. When twenty-three years of age he bought a farm in Illinois, which he sold in 1867, and emigrated to Iowa, where he bought and settled upon the present estate. He was instantly killed by accident- ally falling from a hay-stack upon a sharp pointed stick, September 28, 1877. Mr. F. joined the Dunkard Church in 1861, and in 1875 was elected by his brethren to preach the gospel. He was a leader in his church, and a man of influence in the community; honored and beloved by all who knew him intimately, and instinctively respected by strangers. His funeral was attended by probably the largest procession ever known in the township. He left an estate of 160 acres of good farming land, and five of timber, to
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