The History of Poweshiek County, Iowa : containing a history of the County, its cities, towns, &c.,., Part 87

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MILLER, ABSALOM-Farmer and stock-raiser, section 6, P. O. Brook- lyn. Was born January 31, 1832, in Rockingham county, Virginia, where, after finishing his education, he engaged in farming till the spring of 1868,. when he came to Iowa and settled where he now lives and owns, in three pieces, 420 acres of well improved land, having some fine thorough-bred stock thereon. He was married, August 26, 1855, in Delaware county,. Indiana, to Miss Mary D. McKimmey, who was born there in 1837. They have ten children: John L. (born August 30, 1856; married, and lives in Warren township), Sarah Ann (born December 3, 1858), Margaret P. (born January 1, 1860; now the wife of Wm. A. Polk, of Warren township), Wm. H. (born January 1, 1862; died September 28, 1862), Rebecca C. (born August 9, 1863), Mary E. (born October 6, 1865), Lydia M. (born November 3, 1870), Jessie (born November 12, 1872), Eliza Jane (born March 12, 1874), Charles (born November 18, 1877, and died March 14, 1878).

MORRISON, A. W .- Farmer and stock-raiser, section 33, P. O. Brook- lyn. Was born February 23, 1828, in Greenbrier county, West Virginia, where he attended school till 1839, when, in company with his parents, he moved to Allen county, Ohio. There, after finishing his education, he learned the shoemaker's trade, at which he worked until 1859, then came to Iowa and engaged in farming in Lincoln township till 1871, when he bought and settled where he now lives and owns 160 acres of improved land. Mr. Morrison was married in November, 1851, in Putnam county,. Ohio, to Miss Margaret Hooper, a resident and native of Ohio, and from this union they have ten children: John S. (born April 16, 1854), Milton W. (born February 28, 1856), Sarah C. (born September 19, 1858), Wil- lard L. (born January 14, 1861), Andrew W. (born January 20, 1863; died October 2, 1864), Mary M. (born February 2, 1866, and died October 1, 1880), Rutha J. (born December 10, 1867), Almeda F. (August 14, 1870),. Estella E. (born March 27, 1875), Bertha M. (born May 3, 1878).

N EGLEY, W. A .- Farmer and stock-raiser, section 24, P. O. Victor .. Was born April 20, 1832, in Cumberland county, Pennsylvania,

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where, after finishing his education, he engaged in farming, blacksmithing and carpenter work till 1850, when he went to Ohio and engaged fin farm- ing for a short time, then went to Springfield, Illinois, where he worked at farm work for a few months, then removed to Dubuque, Iowa, {where he remained a short time. In the fall of 1851 he went to Naplesville, Illinois, where he worked at blacksmithing till the spring of 1852, and then he commenced to work on the Mississippi River, and continued the same till fall. Returning to Naplesville, hie again worked at his trade, continuing the same till the fall of 1853, then went to Crawford county, Indiana, there remained till the fall of 1854, when he came to Iowa and settled where he now lives and owns 455 acres of well improved and stocked land, he being one of the most extensive stock dealers in the county. Mr. Negley was married, October 23, 1860, in Iowa City, to Miss Sarah A. Armington, who was a resident of the same place, born in Vermont, October 1, 1834. From this union there are five children: William Ernest (born December 15, 1861), L. Mabel (born June 5, 1863), Sarah Bertha (born November 14, 1864), Oris Armington (born June 2, 1867) and Stella May (born February 28, 1869).

NUSSBAUM, MIss ELIZABETH-Section 32, P. O. Brooklyn. Was born April 24, 1839, in Holmes county, Ohio, where she lived and attended school till 1845, then, in company with her parents, she moved to Tusca- rawas county, Ohio, where she lived on a farm with her parents till 1854, when, with her parents, she came to Iowa and settled where she now lives and owns eighty acres of good, well improved land. Her father, Nicholas, died in 1870, aged seventy-six years. He was widely known and respected by all who knew him. Mrs. Nussbaum, mother of the subject of this sketch, died July, 1879, after a lingering illness, leaving many friends and relations to mourn her loss. She was born in Pennsylvania, February 12, 1815.

PLAMBECK, H. C .- Farmer, section 34, P. O. Victor. Was born September 11, 1853, in Holstein, Germany; there attended school till fifteen years old, when he was admitted as a cadet in Berlin, where he grad- nated September, 1870, then served in the German army during the Franco- Prussian War till March 5, 1873; the same year he left Germany for Amer- ica, crossing the Atlantic in the steamer Thuringia, then on her second voyage, and landed in New York, March 19, after a stormy voyage, then came to Davenport, Iowa, and engaged to work on a farm in Scott county summers and taught school winters till the spring of 1875, when he mar- ried Miss Annie Fraser, who was born there in 1856. They now have three children: Theodora (born January 23, 1876), Adolph (born Novem-

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ber 5, 1877) and Maxwell (born August 9, 1879). Mr. Plambeck and wife came to this county April 28, 1875, and settled where they now live and own eighty acres of good land, with good brick residence on the same.

PORTS, JOHN T .- Farmer, section 34, P. O. Victor. Was born March 19, 1838, in Baltimore county, Maryland, and after completing his educa- tion he engaged in farming till the spring of 1866, when he came to Iowa and settled on T. Wheeler's farm, which he worked till the spring of 1869, then bought and settled where he now lives and owns eighty acres of im- proved land with a good house on the same. He is an active member of the M. E. Church, and is now one of the stewards of that denomination. Mr. Ports was married, January 18, 1865, in Baltimore county, Maryland, to Miss Serena H. Wheeler, who was born there May 18, 1847. They have four children: Edgar G. (born February 3, 1866), Willie F. (born October 8, 1872), Howard T. (born August 11, 1875) and Stanley B. (born August 24, 1879). Richard D., father of Mrs. Ports, died January 12, 1863, in Maryland, aged sixty-five. Dorotha W., her mother, now lives in Bal- timore county, Maryland, aged eighty years.

POSTIN, MRS. MARY A .- Section 1, P. O. Victor. Widow of Wil- liam Postin, who was born in Butler county, Ohio, July, 1825, and when four years old went with his parents to Crawford, Indiana, where he at- tended school till 1844, when he came to Iowa, settling in Scott county, and engaged in surveying throughout the State. He, in company with Captain Morehead, surveyed the greater part of Iowa, often suffering much in the storms of those times. He also owned and operated a number of coal mines in Scott county, employing some thirty men in the same, and continued in that till his death, which occurred March 28, 1872, he being widely known and highly esteemed. He was married December 2, 1849, in Davenport, to Miss M. A. Kearns, a resident of Davenport, born in Zanesville, Ohio, in 1830, and from this union there were born seven chil- dren, as follows: Mary L. B. (born October 23, 1850; now the wife of J. Blair, of Warren township), Thos. J. (born August 13, 1852; married and lives in Decatur county, Iowa), William F. (born July 24, 1854), Lovinia (born July 26, 1856; now the wife of David Daugherty, of Scott county, Iowa), Annetta (born March 2, 1859; died November 12, 1862), Edwin Richard (born January 2, 1864), Rosie Nell (August 8, 1870). Mrs. Postin, with her family, came to this county in March, 1875, and bought eighty acres of improved land and settled on the same, where she now lives, and with the aid of her sons, Wm. F. and Edwin R., farms the same.

S' AGE, MRS. MIRIAM-Widow of the late Levi Sage, who was born in Canada, February 23, 1816, and after finishing his education engaged

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in farming till October, 1865, when he came to Iowa and settled where his widow now lives and owns forty acres of well-improved land. He was mar- ried February 23, 1841, in Canada, to Miss Miriam Swayze, who was born in 1819. From this union there were eleven children, as follows: Martha (born May 25, 1842, and died in June, 1842), Emerson W. (born May 3, 1843; married and is an Methodist minister in Story county, Nevada), Mary H. (born October 17, 1844, and died March 18, 1870), Susan C. (born October 16, 1847; now the wife of Edward Canum, a farmer in Iowa county), Levi L. (born March 28, 1849; married; lives in Blue Earth county, Minnesota), James Emory (born September 28, 1852; married; is a miller in Iowa City), Elias A. (born January 25, 1854; died June 17, 1854), Mar- tha M. (born September 6, 1856; now the wife of Solon McBurney, a farmer in Warren township), Joseph B. (born February 14, 1859; now in Colorado), Wendell E. (born February 20, 1862; lives with his mother and works the farm), Miriam E. (born March 20, 1864). Mr. Sage, after many years of suffering from rheumatism, died in January, 1870. He was an active, earnest worker and member of the M. E. Church, a kind neighbor, a loving husband and father, and being known and respected by all who knew him his loss was felt by his many relatives and friends.

SANDERS, JAMES E .- Farmer, section 34, P. O. Victor. Was born June 24, 1844, in Pennsylvania, and when quite young accompanied his parents to Ohio, Jefferson county, where, after finishing his education, he engaged in farming till August 22, 1862, when he enlisted in the Fifty- second Ohio infantry and was in the battles of Perrysville, Nashville, Mufreesborough and many others. In the summer of 1864 he was assigned to the Second Illinois light artillery and was at the surrender of Atlanta and with Sherman to the sea. After receiving his discharge he returned to Ohio, where he remained a few months, then, after spending a few months in Missouri, he came to Iowa and worked on his father's farm in this county till the spring of 1871, then rented a farm in Lincoln township and worked the same till the spring of 1876, when he settled where he now lives and owns fifty acres of well-improved land. Mr. S. was married No- vember 30, 1871, to Miss Ella C. Wherry, who was born in 1850, in Ohio. They have four children living: Esther J. (aged seven years), Joseph E. (aged five years), Celia Ann (aged three years) and an infant son. They buried an infant son (born in 1872).

SAWTELL, J. P .- Farmer, section 2, P. O. Victor. Was born December 13, 1814, in Windsor county, Vermont, where, after fin- ishing his education, he learned the shoemaker's trade, at which he worked in Chester, Vermont, till 1844, then moved to Knox county, Illi-

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nois, where he continued to work at his trade till 1868, then came to Iowa. and settled where he now lives and owns eighty acres of good land. He was married, May 13, 1841, in Chester, Vermont, to Miss Orra A. Cone, a resident of the same place, born in New Hampshire in 1821. They have had eight children, as follows: Geo. P. (born April 2, 1842; died May 10, 1845), Orra A. (born May 12, 1843; died June 8, 1864), Chas. S. (born May 19, 1849), William (born December 6, 1850, and died December 8, 1850), Frederick E. (born July 26, 1853; married and lives in Jefferson. township), Henry F. (born November 10, 1855), Frank A. (born August 4, 1861) and Alfred E. (born February 10, 1864).

SCHOLES, R .- Farmer, section 24, P. O. Victor. Was born December 28, 1820, in Belmont county, Ohio, where he attended school until nine- years old; then went with his parents to Ashland county, Ohio, where he- attended school winters, and summers engaged in tilling the soil, also in carpenter work till 1843, when he moved to Athens county, where he- farmed and worked at his trade till the fall of 1849. He came to Iowa and settled in this county where he worked at his trade four years. Then en- gaged in farming and in the spring of 1866 bought and settled where he- now lives and owns forty acres of well-improved land, he having recently sold 200 acres of his farm. Mr. S. has been twice married: First, July 28, 1842, in Belmont county, Ohio, to Miss Cordelia Clary, a resident of Guernsey county, Ohio. From this union there were eight children: Joanna (aged thirty-four years), Samuel (aged thirty-three years), Joshua (aged thirty-one years), Reuben (died when five months old), John (aged twenty-five years), Geo. W. (aged twenty-two years; married and lives in Nebraska), Henry C. (aged twenty-one years), Thomas J. (aged nineteen years). Mrs. S., after a short illness, died, January 3, 1875, leaving a wide circle of friends and relatives to mourn her loss. Mr. S., for his second wife, mar- ried, September 2, 1877, Miss Susan Ann Gwin, of this county, who was born in Holmes county, Ohio, in 1832.

SCOTT, WILLIAM-Section 22, farmer, P. O. Victor. Was born in 1808, in Ireland, where he lived till four years old, then came with his pa- rents to America, and settled in Somerset county, Pennsylvania, where he lived and attended school a few years. He moved to Ohio, and engaged in tilling the soil until 1849, when he came to Iowa, and settled in this county, where he now lives and owns a good farm of 375 acres of well im- proved and stocked land. Mr. Scott was married in 1838, in Holmes county, Ohio, to Miss Eliza Manatt, who was born in 1818, in Ohio; from this union they have two sons: Robert (born July 20, 1840; now married and lives in Warren township) and William (born September 18, 1842;

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who, while drawing wood from the timber, March 12, 1874, was caught between a limb of a tree and his load doubling him in such a manner as to injure his spine, from which he has never recovered and now uses crutches). Mr. and Mrs. Scott have also buried two infants.

SCOTT, ROBERT-Farmer and stock-raiser, section 25, P. O. Victor. Was born July 20, 1840, in Holmes county, Ohio, where he lived eight years, then in company with his parents came to Iowa, and settled in this county, where he attended school some years and engaged in working on his father's farm till 1877, when he settled where he now lives and owns 360 acres of land including timber, with good improvements. He was married in this county in July, 1864, to Miss Julia Knox, of Keokuk county, born there in 1844; they have four children: Mary Jane (born June 3, 1866), Eliza Ann (born November 16, 1867), William F. (born July 21, 1869) and Robert D. (born January 3, 1871). Mrs. Julia Scott's parents are both enjoying good health and live on a farm in Keokuk county, Iowa; they were formerly from Ohio.

SHIMER, R. C .- Farmer, section 8, P. O. Brooklyn. Was born De- .cember 10, 1829, in Berlin, Homes county, Ohio, where he lived and at- tended school till his twentieth year. When fourteen, he commenced to learn the blacksmith's trade, his father being a blacksmith, and in the fall of 1850, he engaged in dealing in groceries, which business he continued till July, 1852, then sold out and came to this county, engaging in farm- ing and working at his trade, also teaching school, residing in Brooklyn till the spring of 1855, he owning and living in the first house in Brooklyn. At that time he returned to his farin and engaged in tilling the same, where he now lives and owns 200 acres of good land, forty of the same being tim- ber, the balance in a good state of cultivation. He was the first clerk of" the township, which office he now fills with satisfaction to all. He was married November 10, 1853, to Miss Mary E. Melvin, a resident of this. county, who was born in Clark county, Ohio, August 15, 1831, and from this union there are seven children: William A. (born November 4, 1854), Ella (born January 5, 1857; now the wife of George W. Tisdale, of Mo- nona county, Iowa), Silas M. (born November 30, 1861), James J. (born March 21, 1866), Howard (born April 18, 1870) and Alma (born December 7, 1872). Mr. Shimer taught the first term of school taught in Bear Creek township.

SNOOK, WESLEY-Farmer and stock-raiser, section 10, P. O. Victor. Was born June 12, 1842, in Jasper county, Iowa, where he lived three years, then in company with his parents came to this county and settled in the grove which now bears his name, where young Snook attended school

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till 1866, working on the farm some till the spring of 1870, when he settled where he now lives and owns 200 acres of well improved land, having some Short-Horns on the same. He was married January 16, 1868, in Marengo, Iowa, to Miss M. C. Boden, who was a resident of the same place, born in Indiana, in 1846. They have no children.

W TALKER, C. C .- Mason, section 15, P. O. Victor. Was born Feb- ruary 10, 1831, in Euphemia, Upper Canada, where he lived and attended school until 1849, then went to Kalamazoo, Michigan, and re- mained but a few years, when he moved to Wisconsin, where he resided one year. Thence to Henry county, Illinois, there engaged in the mann- facture of brick till 1867, when he came to Iowa and located in Grinnell, and again engaged in the manufacture of brick and at bricklaying till March, 1880, when he came upon his farm of forty acres, which he had bought in 1876; he is now working at his trade in Victor. He was mar- ried December 4, 1859, in Kewanee, Illinois, to Miss Mary M. Davis, a res- ident of the same place, who was born in Wyoming county, New York, March 31, 1842; from this union six children have been born, as follows: Jennie I. (born December 15, 1860), Hattie (born November 8, 1864), Syba L. (born October 19, 1865), Minnie A. (born June 18, 1868), Freder- ick E. (born January 5, 1872) and Herbert C. (born August 16, 1874). Mrs. Walker's mother (Sybil) died in Crawford county, Iowa, July 16, 1879; she was born January 5, 1806, in Otsego county, New York. John J. Davis, her father, was born January 2, 1804, in Schoharie, New York, and died in Crawford county, October 2, 1880.

WHERRY, D. P .- Farmer, section 31, P. O. Brooklyn. Was born March 28, 1837, in Guernsey county, Ohio, where he lived the life of a farmer boy attending school winters and working on the farm summers till 1850, then came to Iowa, and after stopping in this county some months, went to Jones county, where he engaged in farming till September 1, 1860. Then re- turned to Ohio and remained till the fall of 1863, when he helped his cousin bring out a drove of sheep to Jones county, Iowa. After remaining there a few months he came to this county, locating in Lincoln township, where he engaged in farming his father's farm, then bought and worked the same, selling it in 1865, when he bought 240 acres and after improving the same sold it in 1868, then traveled around till the spring of 1874, when he settled where he now lives, having lately sold his farm of 160 acres of well improved land. Mr. Wherry was married March 12, 1873, in Lin- coln township, to Miss Margaret R. Pagitt, who was born in 1847, in Ohio; they have four children: James H. (aged six), David T. (aged three), Sam-

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uel E. (aged two) and Daisy (born in June, 1880). Joseph Wherry, father of D. P., died in Ohio, July, 1876, aged eighty-four years.

WHEELER, JOHN R .- Farmer, section 34, P. O. Victor. Was born September 20, 1829, in Baltimore county, Maryland, where, after finish- ing his education, he worked on his father's farm till 1848, when he went to Pennsylvania and learned the carpenter trade and there worked till 1850. Then he went to Maryland, remaining till 1856, when he came to Iowa and engaged in farming in various places, and working at his trade till 1865, when he settled where he now lives, and owns forty acres of good land, he also owns a good threshing machine, having run one for eleven years. Mr. Wheeler was married September 16, 1851, in Pennsylvania, to Miss Ann Eliza Boyd, who was born there in October, 1831; from this union they have eight children: Mary (born December 1, 1852; now the wife of A. Wilson of Lincoln township); Wm. Henry (born May 1, 1855; died July 22, 1855); John Thomas (born April 22, 1858), Emma Jane (born March 15, 1860), Grace (born October 15, 1862), Charles (born September 16, 1865), Cora May (born February 25, 1867), Eva P. (born October 21, 1873.)

WHEELER, T. G .- Farmer and stock-raiser, section 31, P. O. Brook- lyn. Was born October 24, 1832, in Baltimore county, Maryland, where after attending school for some years, he went to Baltimore and there learned the trade of bricklaying. Then went to Washington, D. C., where he worked on the U. S. capitol, from July 2, 1852, till November, 1852; the summer of 1853 he worked in Alexandria, Virginia; then in 1855 again worked a few months on the capitol, and on the U. S. insane asylum. In the summer of 1855 he worked in Davenport at his trade, then in May 1856 commenced to work on the U. S. treasury building, and continued the same till February 15, 1862. May 2, 1862, commenced to work in the capitol grounds, having charge of the same till April 1, 1868, when he resigned his position and came to Iowa and settled where he now lives, and owns one hundred and sixty acres of well-improved land; he has on his farm some good Cotswold sheep and Poland-China pigs. Mr. Wheeler was married January 10, 1856, in Washington City, to Miss Grace R. Moore, a resident and native of Charles county, Maryland, born in 1834; they have nine children living: Mary A. (born October 30, 1856; now the wife of W. Hicks of Maryland); Clara A. (born July 30, 1858, and died Sep- tember 22, 1859); James F. (born November 10, 1859; married, and lives in this county); Geo. R. (born January 23, 1862), Thomas A. (born June 15, 1864), Lillie G. and Ella May, twins (born September 16, 1866), Effie V.

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(born April 28, 1869), Lulu S. (born September 10, 1871), Nannie L. (born March 15, 1875).

WHEELER, W. H .- Farmer and stock-raiser, section 10, P. O. Brook- lyn. Was born April 14, 1820, in Baltimore county, Maryland, where, after finishing his education, he engaged in farming till 1855, when he came to Iowa and located where he now lives, and owns eight hundred and fifteen acres of improved land, including some timber, having a large brick residence on the same with good orchard adjoining, also has farm well stocked. He was married December 22, 1846, in Baltimore, Maryland, to Miss Nancy Markey a resident and native of same county, aged twenty-six; children as follows are the result of this union: Elizabeth (born Septem- ber 17, 1847; now the wife of Wm. Love in Nebraska), John R. (born Oc- tober 24, 1849), Jacob S. (born January 19, 1852), Clara F. (born July 19, 1854), Lewis P. (born October 29, 1856), Wm. F. (born November 8, 1858), Theodore G. (born April 8, 1861), Charles M. (born March 20, 1863), and Ella G. (born September 19, 1866.)

WILKINS, T. J .- Farmer and stock-raiser, section 25, P. O. Victor. Was born April 2, 1837, in Wayne county, Ohio, where he lived on a farm with his father, who was a farmer, owning one hundred and sixty acres of good land. There young Wilkins attended school till the fall of 1850, when his mother died. In the spring of 1851 his father died. Then in the fall of 1851 young Wilkins went to La Salle county, Illinois, where he lived with his oldest brother and worked on his farm till November, 1844, when he returned to Ohio and attended the Hayesville Academy till the spring of 1856, then returned to Illinois and settled in Henry county where he hired with his oldest brother and engaged in farming till 1859; then went across the plains with a party to California, where he remained till 1863, then re- turned to La Salle county, Illinois, there again farming till the fall of 1875, when he came to Iowa and bought and settled where he now lives, and owns seventy-six acres of well-improved land. Mr. Wilkins is a true, active bus- iness member of the community in which he lives, always ready to help those in need; especially does he take an interest in the education of the young, and has been a member of the school board. He was married De- cember 17, 1864, in Ottawa, Illinois, to Miss R. M. Gibbs, born March 11, 1842, in Illinois. They have three children: Dora Ann (born in 1865), Wal- ter (born September 6, 1872), infant daughter (born March 18, 1880.)

WILLETT, W. C .- Farmer, section 29, P. O. Brooklyn. Was born September 27, 1827, in Charles county, Maryland, where he lived, and at an early age engaged in farming till 1870, when he came to Iowa and set- tled where he now lives, and owns one hundred and forty-five acres of im-

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proved land, with good house on the same, he having lost his home by fire August 7, 1877. Mr. Willett was married April 8, 1862, in Charles county, Maryland, to Miss Eliza Ann Adams, who was born in Maryland in 1844; they have had ten children in all: Eliza C. (born December 22, 1866), William A. (born January 6, 1869), Cornelius E. (born January 1, 1871), Clara F. (March 19, 1873), Anna R. (April 9, 1874; died November, 1875), Effie D. (born June 24, 1877), Richard P. (born February 16, 1879), and three buried, two infant sons and one infant daughter.

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The History of Poweshiek County, Iowa : containing a history of the County, its cities, towns, &c.,., Part 87

Author: Publication date: 1880 Publisher: Des Moines : Union Historical Co. Number of Pages: 1004

Author:
Publication date: 1880
Publisher: Des Moines : Union Historical Co.
Number of Pages: 1004