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JAMES, HENRY, furniture
dealer, Boonesboro; was born in the county of Monmouth, South Wales, October 30, 1818, and is the son of Wm. James, an extensive contractor; Mr. James had good ed- ucational advantages in early life, and at the age of thirteen was ap- prenticed to learn the carpenter and wheelwright's trades, and has fol- lowed his chosen avocation most of . his life; in 1839 he took an active part in the Chartest movement, the
object of which was reform, mainly free ballot without property qualifi- cations; failing in this movement, three of their leaders having been arrested and transported, and Mr. James being disgusted with the gov- ernment, determined to seek a free country, and in 1848 emigrated to the United States, locating in Brook- lyn, New York, and there followed his trade for seven years; he then came to Marietta, Marshall county, this State, in 1867; he then went to Colorado for one year and visited his son, who is engaged in business there; he removed to Clinton, Iowa, and engaged in the manufacturing of sash and doors, remaining there for two years; he then came to this county and settled where he now re- sides and carries on the furniture business quite extensively; he is a man of knowledge and experience, liberal in his views and firm in his convictions, ever ready to defend the truth; in business he has been very successful; in April, 1837. Miss Frances Farr, of Monmoutlı, became his wife; they have four chil- dren: Win. H. (mayor of Leadville, and also of the firm of Eddy & James, who are doing the heaviest smelting business Colorado), John, Rosetta (now Mrs. Orlando J. Halli- day), and Mary; they have lost seven: Hannah, Richard, Henry Farr, Katie, Richard, Katie and an infant.
JOICE, A., farmer and dairy- man; Sec. 26; P. O. Boone; was born in Montpelier, Vermont, Jan -. uary 1, 1825, and in 1832 moved with his parents to Lorain county, Ohio; he was educated in the com- mon schools and attended Oberlin College; when they had been in Ohio about one year his father died, and he was taken into the family of Renben Nichols, where he remained until 1843; he then started out into the world without a cent in his pocket, and went to Cleveland, Ohio,
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and obtained work as clerk in the American House, and remained there for one year; he then went to Akron and engaged in the grain trade, and in 1846 opened the old Hale Hotel in Wilmington, Ohio; in the spring of 1847 he sold out and enlisted in company H, Second Ohio infantry, and went into Mexico, where he remained until the close of the war, and was discharged Sep- tember, 1848; in January of the year following he opened the Mor- row House in Morrow, Ohio, and kept the same for two years; then engaged in the railroad business, building a road from Springfield to Dayton; in 1858 he again engaged in the hotel business at Bellefon- tain, and in 1859 came to Musca- tine, this State, and again com- menced building, which he has fol- lowed more or less since; in 1862 be came to this county, locating where he now lives, owning eighty acres of land; keeps quite an extensive dairy, having abont twenty cows, and sells the milk to his city trade; has been twice married: first in Au- gust, 1848, to Miss Elizabeth Steph- enson, a native of Ohio; she died in September, 1849, leaving one child, who died soon afterward; again, in August, 1853, to Miss Anna M. Sterns, a native of New York; they have seven children: Elizabeth (wife of B. C. Tillit, of this county), Courtney, Belle (wife of West My- ers, of this county), Anna, Maud, Walter and Bertha, living; have lost ·one; Mr. J. is chairman of the board of supervisors of this county.
K EMBEL, ISAAC, carpenter by trade, Boonesboro; was born in Northumberland county, Pennsyl- vania, August 16, 1821, and when eighteen years of age moved to Illi- nois, settling in Ogle county; he there resided for twenty-seven years, and in 1867 came to Iowa, locating in this place, where he has since lived; December, 1856, he was married to
Anna V. Morrison, a native of Ogle connty, Illinois, born March 30, 1840; have four children: Mary E., (born March 9,1861), Henry A.,(born September 25, 1863), Martha A, (born December 23, 1865), and Edna V., (born September 24, 1871); since residing here Mr. K. has been en- gaged the most of the time in work- ing at his trade, although of late years he has done but little at it.
KEMBEL, HENRY, carpenter and contractor, Boonesboro; was born February 18, 1828, in Nor- thumberland county, Pennsylvania, and at the age of twelve years re- moved with his parents to Ogle county, Illinois; he resided there until 1857 when he came to this State, settling in Indiantown, Tama county; he remained there for nine years, then came to this place, Sep- tember 24, 1857; he was married to Maria Hurdle, a native of Washing- ton county, Maryland; she was born November 7, 1832; she was raised in Pickaway county, Ohio; have two children: John H., (born Sep- tember 27, 1859). and Etta P., (born November 20, 1869); M .. Kembel has been actively engaged at his work since residing here, having built many of the substantial houses of the town.
KETCHUM, D. C., jeweler, Boone; was born in Lorain county, Ohio, in 1816, and lived there until seven years of age, then removing to Massachusetts; he learned the jew- eler's trade, and has worked at it as an occupation more or less since that time; he came to Illinois and settled in Marengo, McHenry county, and lived there two years, and thence to Elgin, Illinois, and remained there three years, and after a residence of four or five years in Freeport, removed to Wisconsin, where he lived twelve years; he came to this county in 1863, and while he has been engaged in his chosen calling, he has devoted a
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great deal of time and attention to the raising of fine horses, and in which he has been very successful, and the county is largely indebted to him for the reputation it has for the improvement made in its fine grade of road horses; he was mar- ried to Miss C. Cummings in 1844; she was a native of Massachusetts; they have one daughter: Josephine (now Mrs. James McIntosh).
KIDDER, I. N., attorney, Boone; stands prominent among the lead- ing lawyers of central Iowa; his firin purpose from the beginning of his legal career has been to honor his profession, and his success in this regard is attested by the high esteem in which he is held by members of the bar; he was born in Massachu- setts and received an academical ed- ucation in his native State; after se- lecting law as an occupation, he at- tended the Albany Law School and graduated in 1861 and admitted to the bar; in 1864 he decided to locate in Boone county, and since making his home here has built up a large practice, and commands the confidence of all with whom he has business relations; he is no political aspirant, but has been honored as a presidential elector, and at present holds the office of Supervisor of the Census for this district: he was mar- ried to Miss Eliza Luce of his native State.
KNEELAND, H. P., Boone; was born in Vermont, March 2, 1843; was there raised and learned the the trade of a tanner, which occupa- tion he followed until August, 1862; he then enlisted in the Thirteenth Vermont infantry, company I, serv- ing for nine months; his regiment participated in the memorable battle of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, being one of the regiments whose time had expired a few days previous to that battle, but at that time had not been mustered out of service; in 1864 he came West, locating in Chi-
cago, where he remained until 1869, when he came to Boone and engaged in working for the C. & N. W. rail- road which he followed until March, 1877; during the time he was on the road he held various positions, being in charge of a freight train when he left the road; in the spring of 1877 he went to the Black Hills, remaining, however, but a short time when he returned to Boone; he was married in October, 1873, to Elinor C. Warner, of Boone; they have two children: Zol M. and Per- cy H.
L INCOLN, JAMES RUSH, dep-
uty treasurer of Boone county, Boonesboro; was born in Maryland, February 3, 1845; his mother died when he was quite young, and in company with his father he traveled through the south most of the time until ten years of age; he was edu- cated at the Pennsylvania Military Academy, entering the same in 1857, when it was then located in Dela- ware; he remained there four years, during which time he received a thorough military education; in 1861 he left school for the purpose of following the dictates of his con- science, and accordingly entered the Confederate service, enlisting as a private in company A, First Mary- land cavalry; on account of merito- rious conduct he won for himself the rank of captain, and served until the close of the war; after the re- bellion he traveled for several years, and in 1869 came North, locat- ing in Harrison township, this coun- ty; in 1871 he removed to Boones- boro, where he engaged in the coal business for some time; the latter part of 1873 he served as deputy treasurer under Epperson, and in January, 1880, was appointed to the same position under Williams; in 1872 he was married to Lottie C: Hicks, of Three Rivers, Michigan; they have four children: Willis B., Charles S., Theresa and Francis H .;
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Mr. Lincoln takes quite an interest in military affairs, and it is mainly through his exertions that the com- pany, which belongs to the two towns, was organized, he being com- missioned captain of the company at the time of its organization; at the present time, 1880, he holds the position of major in the Eighth regiment, I. N. G .; the Lincoln Guards, of Boone, were named in honor of Mr. Lincoln, which shows conclusively the esteem in which he is held by his fellow associates.
LOWRY, C., of the firm of Low- ry & Ames, dealers in dry goods, notions, etc., Boone; is a native of Geauga county, Ohio, and was born on the 2Ed day of September, 1827, and was raised in Ohio until 1843, and then removed to Winnebago county, Illinois, and resided there twenty years, his time being divided between farming and selling goods; he came to this county in 1866, and has been selling goods since that time, and as a merchant, is held in high esteem by his patrons; he is a man of excellent character, a valua- ble citizen, and one who, with others, has given to the city its high com- mercial standing; he was married to Miss S. M. Burnside, a native of New York; by this union they have three children: Albert C., Butler, and Ann Eliza.
LOWRIE. C. W., attorney, Boone; was born in Luzerene county, Penn- sylvania. on the 19th day of April, 1826, and is the son of John Lowrie and Sallie, nee Cobb, the former of Scotch-Irish descent and the latter of English extraction; his father was one of the early settlers of his native town, and here the subject spent his early life, receiving the advantages of the common schools, and having a desire for a thorough education, he had recourse to the oc- cupation of aspiring youth-school- teaching; he supplemented his early education by attendance at the How-
ard University; he made choice of law as a profession. and read with Hon. Francis W. Hughes, of Potts- ville, Pennsylvania, Attorney-Gen- eral, and attended the National Law School; in 1853 he came to Michi- gan and settled at Battle Creek. re- maining there two years; January 14, 1856, he removed to Keokuk, Iowa, and engaged in the practice of his profession; in 1860 he was se- lected by his friends to represent the county in the Ninth General As- sembly of the State Legislature, and served with credit to himself and honor to his constituents; he was appointed on the staff of Governor Kirkwood, and assisted in equipping and assigning the troops to their re- spective commands; he came to Boone county after the passage of the bank- rupt law, was appointed Register in Bankruptcy, and his district em- braced thirty-seven counties; he held the office until the law was re- pealed; he was married December 19, 1854, to Miss R. Brown, a daughter of Dr. D. E. Brown, a resident of Michigan, but a native of Virginia; their family consists of one daughter: Alice Maud (born September 1, 1862); they have lost four children.
M cFARLAND, J. I., cashier of of the bank of J. A. McFar- land, Boone; was born in Boones- boro, May 14, 1854; he has been connected with the bank since 1872, and it may be said he has grown up to the business, and in the manage- inent of its interests he has been very successful; he was married June 20, 1876, to Miss Addie Hull; she was born in Erie county, New York; they have one child: Irvin H.
MCFARLAND, JOHN A., the pioneer banker of Boone county, whose portrait appears in this work, was born in Knox county, Ohio, July 8, 1819, and was raised there as a farmer; he remained in his na- tive State until the breaking out of
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the Mexican War and enlisted in the Second Ohio infantry, and served under Morgan and Taylor; in 1848 he came to this State, and in 1849 he settled in Des Moines, where he had a mercantile experience; his ob- ject in coming to Boone county was to locate lands with the warrant which he received for his services in Mexico, and others which he had purchased; he soon engaged in gen- eral merchandise, and was the pio- neer merchant of the town, and con- tinued the business for three years; he was induced by the stock-buyers and merchants of the place to en- gage in the banking business, which he still continues; he has been prom- inently identified with Boone county since he first came to the county; although no political aspirant, he has ever labored for the promotion of those he considered best to fill the offices; in a business point his life has been a success, and he is one of the large tax-payers of the county; he was married to Miss Lucina Vance, who died in-, leaving one son: Johnson I., now cashier of the bank.
McINTOSH, JAMES, deputy anditor; was born in Putnam county, Indiana, on the 30th day of December, 1844, and accompanied his parents to this county in 1852, and has lived in this county since that time; his father has long been one of the prominent citizens of the county; the subject of this sketch was married in 1868 to Miss Jose- phine L. Ketchum, resident of Boone county, but a native of Massachu- setts; they have a family of three children: Maud C., Sybil M. and James L .; lost one daughter : Emily C.
McINTOSH, WILLIAM, retired farmer, Boonesboro; was born in Harrison county, Indiana, August 29, 1820, and was raised in Putnam county; his grandfather emigrated from Scotland and settled in Ken-
tucky, and was a soldier in the Rev- olutionary War; in 1850 our subject came to this county and settled where he now resides; his home consists of thirty acres in the north- ern limits of Boonesboro, embel- lished by an artificial grove and ev- ergreens; he also owns several good farms in the vicinity; Mr. McIntosh has been actively engaged in farm - ing and has been identified with the development of the county and with its best interests; April 19, 1840, he married Miss Emma Parker, a na- tive of Oldham county, Kentucky; they have four children living: Al- ma (wife of Wright Harris), James, Mary F. and Nett; lost one son : De- wit Clinton, who died November 3, 1869.
McPHERSON, C., master me- chanic at the Northwestern Rail- road shops; was born on the Atlan- tic Ocean on the 13th day of Febru- ary, 1829; his parents were natives of Scotland; in his youth he learned the trade of machinist and has fol- lowed it as an occupation until the present time; in 1852 he emigrated to the United States and settled in Chicago, and worked in the leading shops of the city; he was with the Galena Railroad Company four years, and seven years in the employ of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Rail- road, and then engaged with the Northwestern Railroad, and has worked his way to his present posi- tion; he is a good illustration of what an industrious man can accom- plish by giving his time and atten- tion to one subject, and his example is a worthy one for the young men of Boone county to imitate; his ca- pability and knowledge of his busi- ness as a thorough mechanic may be inferred from the position he holds; he was married to Miss Elizabeth Glover in March, 1851; she was born in Scotland; their family con- sist of four children: Charles (who has charge of company's shop in
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Council Bluffs), James (a partner of L. D. Cook, Boone counties' oldest dealer in general merchandise), John and Maggie.
MARSHALL, O. T., agent of the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad, Boone; was born in Lempster, New Hampshire, on the 13th day of June, 1827; he was raised a farmer until nineteen years of age, and then learned the trade of chair carving, but owing to impaired health was compelled to relinquish the busi- ness; he had a mercantile experience in Nashua and then entered the em- ply of the Worcester & Nashna Railroad as agent; he came to this county in 1869 and entered the em- ply of the company he now repre- sents as cashier, at this place, and was afterward appointed to his pres- ent position, which he fills so satis- factorily; Mr. M. has never been out of a situation a day since he was twenty-one years old; he married Miss Harriett L. Barrett in 1853; she was born in New Hampshire; they have one son: George E.
MASON BROTHERS, dealers in general merchandise, Boone ; as prominent, influential and thorough business men, the subjects of this brief biography are worthy of an honorable mention; the firm is com- posed of C. S. and C. T. T. Mason, who were born in New Hampshire, the former on the 28th day of Oc- tober, 1843, and the latter in 1846; they were both reared with a mer- cantile expericence, and it may well be said were bred men of business; in 1868 they came to Iowa, and es- tablished themselves in business in Moingona, and in 1873 came to this city, and have built up a large and constantly increasing trade; the firm has manifested commendable public spirit in the growth and prosperity of the town, and have taken an active part in every public improvement, and contributed lib- erally to every enterprise; with pru-
dent foresight they have secured two of the choicest business cor- ners in the town, and to accommo- date their large increasing trade are at the present time erecting one of the most convenient, commodions and substantial, as well as ornamen- tal business buildings in central Iowa; a marked feature of their business, when they occupy their new building, will be their attention to the jobbing trade; they are marked as men of broad views, firm adherence to avowed principles, quick perception and sound judg- ment, which, combined with excel- lent business tact, has given them an influence and success well worthy of emulation; C. S. Mason was married in 1872, to Mrs. Arnnetta C. Noyes (whose maiden name was Curry); she was a native ot New Hampshire; by this union they have three children: Howard C., Fannie B. and Kate S .; lost one son: Ar- thur L .; Mrs. Mason has one son by a former marriage: Harry L. Noyes.
MAUCK, ELI K., mason, and of the firm of Smith & Mauck, manu- facturers of pottery, Boonesboro; was born in Harrison county, In- diana, February, 27, 1834, and when eight years of age his parents moved to Henry county, Illinois, where he was raised on a farm, at- tending school during winters; when nineteen years old he chose the mason's trade as his occupation, and followed it principally until August 8, 1862, when he enlisted as private in company G, One Hundred and Twelfth Illinois infantry, remaining with that regi- ment until the close of the war; was made sergeant, and was first lieuten- ant of his company when discharged, having participated in twenty-seven general engagements and 117 skir- mishes, amongst which were some of the most severe engagements of the war; he only received two slight wounds during the time, and was
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discharged July 8, 1865, when he returned to Henry county, Illinois; he remained there a few months, and then returned to Boonesboro, where he has since been actively en- gaged at his trade, in connection with which he is and has been en- gaged in the artificial stone manu- facturing business since 1867, under the firm name of Manck Bro.'s & Briggs; this institution is the only one of the kind in the county, and the excellency of their work may be inferred from the fact that they supply the ornamental trimming to the best edifices in this and adjoin- ing counties; February 14, 1856, he was married to Miss Emily A. Bush, of Cambridge, Illinois; they have four children living: Clara E. (wife of C. E. F. Smith), Harry H., Frank B. and Tom. H; have lost one son : Henry T., who died September 24, 1862.
MAUCK, E. H., of the firm of Mauck & Son, manufacturers of pot- tery, Boonesboro; was born in Har- rison county, Indiana, April 30, 1832, and when ten years of age his parents removed to Mercer county, Illinois; one year afterward they went to Henry county, where our subject grew to manhood; his father was a competent mason and em- ployed his son to assist him, when the latter was quite young; he fol- lowed that trade and farming in Illinois until 1865, when he came to the place, where he now resides; after coming here he engaged in the mason trade exclusively, and has the reputation (and a well-deserved one) of being one of the best in the county; in 1879 he entered into his present business; Angust 13, 1862, Mr. Mauck enlisted in company G, One Hundred and Twelfth Illinois infantry, and served until June 18, 1863, when he was mustered out for disability; he then returned to Illinois and having lost his health was unable to attend much
to business for three years; he was united in marriage November 4, 1855, to Miss Snsan H. Stoddard, a native of Ohio but raised in Henry county, Illinois; they had three children : Carrie (wife of E. Wright), Charlie K. and Henry S.
MEANS, W. B., editor, Boone; was born at Paris, Illinois, Febru- ary 5th, 1846; his parents were farmers and as such was Mr. Means trained in his youth; not satisfied with the common school education which he had received, and, desiring to enter upon a professional career, he began, at the age of twenty years, a regular collegiate course of study; for a while he was a student of Hanover College, Indiana, but, desiring better facilities than were at that time afforded at Hanover, he left the latter institution and en- tered the junior class at Miami Uni- versity, located at Oxford, Ohio; that institution was at that time one of the most renowned colleges throughout the West, it being the first one established west of the Alleghany mountains, and having an alumni, who, for ability and suc- cess in their chosen professions, were second to none in the Union; Mr. Means graduated in the summer of 1869; in: 1870 he removed to Boones- boro, Boone county, Iowa, and en- gaged in the study of law; he was admitted to the bar in 1871, but his tastes and inclinations attracted hin to another field, and it was as an ed- itor, rather than as a lawyer, that he was destined to become identified with the interests of Boone county; in connection with Mr. Lawrence, he purchased the "Boone County Advocate," a Republican newspaper then published at Boonesboro; some time after Mr. Lawrence sold his in- terest to Mr. Downing, and the name of the paper was changed to that of the "Republican "; in connection with the paper, which continued to be published at Boonesboro, the firm
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of Mears & Downing opened a job office in Boone; in the course of a few years the newspaper was re- moved to Boone, and to the senior partner of this firm is not only the success of the paper, but the pro- gress of the city, largely indebted; Mr. Means was married to Miss Helen C. Dennison, daughter of W. W. Dennison, one of the first law- yers of the county, in December, 1874; they have two children: Nel- lie and John.
MITCHELL, HON. I. J .; was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1829; when yet a youth his parents re- moved to a farm in Clermont coun- ty, Ohio, where they remained for a number of years, after which they removed to Brazil, Indiana; when he grew to manhood, young Mitchell taught school and studied medicine; in 1855 he came to Boonesboro and established a drug store; neither the practice of medicine nor the drng business proving congenial to him, he entered upon the study of law, and in 1857 was admitted to the bar; in 1858 he was elected a mein- ber of the State board of education, which office he filled for two years; in 1868 he was elected to the State senate, and in 1870 was appointed trustee of the State Agricultural College at Ames; in 1874 he was elected judge of this judicial dis- trict, his official term expiring in January. 1879; besides these posi- tions, to which he has been elected by the vote of the people, Judge Mitchell has held at least two other important offices by appointment of the - general government, that of draft commissioner, and assessor of internal revenue; as draft commis- sioner during the war, he was called upon to discharge some very ardu- ous and unpleasant duties; these du- ties he discharged with such care, impartiality and fidelity that there never was a breath of suspicion, nor so much as an insinuation bearing
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