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B AKER, JOEL, farmer and stock raiser; Sec. 9; P. O. Mineral Ridge; was born in Rock Castle county, Kentucky, December 26, 1820, and when ten years of age his parents emigrated to Indiana; he made this his home till he came to this State in the fall of 1851; he spent the winter in Polk county, and the following winter located on section 26 of this township, where he opened out a farm in the timber and occupied it till he came to his present location in 1869; he now owns 617 acres of land, mostly im- proved; he has served two terms as justice of the peace, two as town- ship assessor and one as township clerk; he was married in Clay county, Indiana, April 9, 1842, to Miss Ollie Mitchell, of Kentucky; they have by this union a family of twelve children, eleven of whom are now living-two sons and nine danghters: Julia A., Louisa, Sarah, Mary, Winnie, Annie, Martha, John (deceased), Prusilla, Elizabeth,
George and Elias; his ancestors were all early settlers of the South- ern States.
BRITTAIN, I., farmer; Sec. 32; P. O. Boone; was born in Luzerne county, Pennsylvania; on the 26th day of May, 1812, and was raised here till about eighteen years of age, when he emigrated with his parents to the State of Ohio; when twenty years of age he engaged in the mer- cantile business which he followed up to the time he camne to this coun- ty in 1865, and since that time has followed agricultural pursuits as an occupation; he owns an improved farm of 400 acres; he has been twice married, first in Ohio in 1838, to Miss Sarah Gibbons, of that State, who died in 1870; his second mar- riage was in this county, in 1875, to Susan Gibbons, a native of the State of Ohio; they have no family; Mr. Brittian is of English origin on his father's side, and on that of his moth- er of German descent.
BUECHLER, JONATHAN.
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farmer; Sec. 18; P. O. Miner- al Ridge; was born in Schuyl- kill county, Pennsylvania, May 1st, 1831, and when only six years of age his parents emigrated in Ohio and six years later removed to Indiana, and remained here till he came to this State, in the fall of 1853, and located in Marion county, and the following year he came to this coun- ty ; he has been connected with va- rious offices of the township ; he was married in Indiana, September 4, 1853, to Miss Martha A., dangh- ter of David Miller, of this town- ship; by this union they have a fam- ily of nine children living: Mary A. (wife of James Martin), Sarah T. (wife of Wm. H. Jennings), Re- becca A. (wife of H. Ferguson), John A., Eva M., Geo. C., Emma A., Charles S. and Elizabeth E .; and two deceased: William H. and David R.
YOLE, M. R., farmer and stock C raiser; Sec. 19; P. O. Miner- al Ridge; was born in East Tennes- see, January 26, 1824; he was only a child when his parents emigrated to Clay county, Indiana; he was raised there at farming as an occupa- tion, which he has followed all his life; he came to this county and set- tled on his present homestead of 280 acres in June of 1854; he was mar- ried in Clay county, Indiana, March 15th, 1850, to Miss Matilda Bass, born .in North Carolina, but her par- ents brought her to Indiana, when she was only a child; they are now living in this country; they have by this union four children living: Jno. W., Dora A., Nancy C. and Char- lotta; they have lost five; his an- cestry were all early settlers of the Southern States.
COLLINS, WILLIAM, JR., farmer; Sec. 34; P. O. Boone; the subject of this sketch was born in the State of Virginia in the year 1830, and when quite young he was brought by his parents to Ohio,
where he was raised to the age of maturity; he came to this country in November, of 1854, and has been a resident of this township since 1858; his present homestead con- sists of 160 acres of land; he was mar- ried in this county, March 4, 1857, to Miss Margaret A., daughter of James John of this township; they have, by this union, a family of two sons and two daughters: E. W., Cora A., G. G. and Clara V.
CONDEN, HENRY, retired farmer, Mineral Point; was born in Licking county, Ohio, in 1822, and was raised there on a farm till eight- een years of age, and as early as 1839 he came to this State with an idea of settling, but being young and inexperienced in pioneer life, he returned as far east as Clarke coun- ty, Illinois, where he remained till 1865, when he came to his present location and engaged in the hotel business, which he followed for six years; he then purchased a farm, which is now under the manage- ment of two of his sons; he held the office of justice of the peace two terms, and various township offices; he was married in Clarke county, Illinois, in 1844, to Miss Elizabeth Dixon of Ohio; they have a family of six sons living: Joseph D., James F., Harvey G., John B., Irwin G. and Albert; they have lost one child : Sarah J.
CRIM, JOHN, farmer; Sec. 8; P. O. Mineral Ridge; was born in Lon- don county, Virginia, October 2, 1825, and when only an infant his parents brought him to Carroll county, Ohio; he was raised on a farm and has always followed that occupation; he came from Ohio to this county in 1855, and located on his present farm in the following spring; it consists of 200 acres of improved land; he was married in Carroll county, Ohio, November 11, 1847, to Miss Salina Cale, a native of that county; they have a family
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of nine children living: Charles W., Margaret, Virginia, Albert, Sophia, Etta, Beldon, Carrie and Dora, and have lost two infants; his ancestors were early settlers of Virginia, and his grandfather (Crim) was a soldier under General Washington.
CROUTHAMEL, JONAS, far- mer; Sec. 35; P. O. Boone; was born in Bedminster township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, in 1833, and was raised there up to the time he came to this county in 1866, except one year that he lived in the State of Illinois; his present farm consists of eighty acres of improved land; he learned the trade of stone mason at sixteen years of age, which he followed till he came west; he also learned the cigarmaker's trade when twenty years of age, which he followed dur- ing the winters; he laid the second stone basement for a brick building in the town of Boone; he was mar- ried in Pennsylvania in 1857 to Miss Elizabeth Yost, of Hilltown township, Bucks county, Pennsyl- vania; they have four children liv- ing: Remantus, Isaiah, Elmina, and Elmer; they have lost two: Su- sie and Ida.
D AWKINS, B. M., druggist, Mineral Ridge; was born in Old- ham county, Kentucky, January 26, 1835, and made it his home up to nineteen years of age, when he emi- grated with his father to Tippica- noe county, Indiana, and remained there two years and then came to this county in the fall of 1856, and has made it his home since; his first occupation in this county was farm- ing, which he followed up to 1875; in 1867 he was elected member of the board of county supervisors, which office he held for four years, and has also been elected to various offices of his township; his ancestry were all early settlers of the south- ern States and of English origin.
DEFORE, HON. W. L., farmer, stock-raiser and feeder; Sec.
29; P. O. Boone; the subject of this sketch (whose portrait appears else- where), is a native of Clay county, Indiana; was born July 12, 1826; he was raised here at farming as an oc- cupation, and also received his edu- cation in the schools of this county; as early as 1849 he came to this county on a prospecting tour, and for the purpose of locating some land, in which he failed, through some mistake of his agent, whom he secured to attend to the matter for him; he remained but a short time, and returned to Indiana, and in June, of 1850, he came back to this county; in 1851 he permanently located on his present homestead, which now consists of 640 acres, with splendid improvements; Mr. D., heeding his country's call in the late rebellion, and feeling it his duty to lend a helping hand in its sup- pression, enlisted in company D, of the Thirty-second Iowa, in 1862, and served till the expiration of his term of enlistment; in 1874 the peo- ple of this county manifested their appreciation for him by electing him to represent them in the Fifteenth General Assembly of the State of Iowa, and the citizens of his own township have often elected him to their various offices of trust; he was married in Indiana in 1848 to Miss Rachael C. Friedley, a native of that State; by this union they have ten children, of whom seven are . now living: Julia, H. C., James A., Ma- ry S., Belle, Minnie and Viola; the names of those deceased were Charles A., Daniel L. and Eddie N .; he is a man of kind heart and oblig- ing disposition, combined with social qualities, that have made him many friends, and his business qualifica- tions may be inferred from the suc- cess that has attended his career.
E MERSON, LEVI, farmer; Sec. 24; P. O. Mineral Ridge; was born in Delaware county, Ohio, November 20th, 1830, and was
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raised here at farming as an occupa- tion; he received his early education in the schools of his native com- monwealth, which he supplemented with a course at the Ohio Central University, of Columbus, that State; he then engaged in teaching, and in 1855 he came out and entered a quarter section of land in this town- ship, but only remained a short time, and returned, and in 1856 came back and permanently located in this county; his present home consists of 160 acres of well im- proved land, which he has occupied since 1865; he served one term as superintendent of the public schools of this county, and was also a mem- ber of the board of supervisors, when there was one from each township; he was married in 1860 to Miss Priscilla Richey, a native of Ohio, and a lady of, education and refine- ment, and one of the pioneer teach- ers of this part of the State; they have one son and one daughter liv- ing: Mary and Loyd, and one de- ceased: Rosa; his father was of Scotch origin; his mother was born in the fort at Marietta, and was supposed to be the first child born therein; her name was Stacey, and her grandfather was an officer in the Revolutionary War.
F ORSTER, H. D., farmer; Sec. 13; P. O. Boone; was born in the State of Hesse Darmstadt, Ger- many, October 26, 1829; at the age of fourteen he learned the trade of miller and millwright, and traveled for two years, an old time-honored custom among all tradesman of that country ; in 1849 he came to Ameri- ca and followed any occupation that presented itself; his first permanent settlement was in Putnam county, Illinois, when he engaged in farm- ing; he afterward moved to Lee county, of that State, where he lived till he came to this county in the fall of 1868, and stopped in Boone till the following spring, when he
came to his present farm of 120 acres of well improved land; he was married in Putnam county, Illinois, in 1856, to Miss Elizabeth Yetter, of Germany; they have a family of fourteen children living: Margaret, Lawrence, Lizzie, Henry, George, John, Anna, Philip, Julia, Carl, Ed- die, Herman, Mena and Willie.
FRIEDLEY,' H., farmer: Sec. 16; P. O. Mineral Ridge; was born in Clarke county, Indiana, February 20, 1834, and when quite young his parents moved to Clay county, of that State, and he was raised there till sixteen years of age, and then came to this county in 1850, and to this township in April of 1851; in the spring of 1859 he came to his present homestead, which consists of 250 acres of improved land, with ten acres of fine, young orchard; he was one of the frontier guards sent out in behalf of the State to protect the citizens; he was married in the fall of 1858 to Miss M. B. Coe, of Ohio; they have a family of five children living: John S., Florence M., Clara, Edgar and Ida.
| OULD, SHERMAN, farmer;
G Sec. 22; P. O. Boone; the subject of the following sketch owes his nativity to Jefferson county, New York, where he was born on the thirtieth day of November, 1832, where he was raised, and also received his education in the schools of that State: as an occupation he has always followed farming, and located on his present home of 100 acres in 1870; although Mr. Gould is not a pioneer of this township, his farm is well improved, and bears marks of New England enterprise; he was married in New York, March 12, 1861, to Miss Lnsippa Chesbrough, a native of that State, and they have by this union a fami- ly of three children: Charlotte J., John N. and Edwin; he is a man of pleasant manners and genial dispo-
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sition, and one only meets him to wish to form a better acquaintance. INMAN, ORLIN, farmer;
H Sec. 8; P. O. Mineral Ridge;
was born in Ashtabula county, Ohio, April 15, 1817, and was raised here till fifteen years of age; he then spent most of his time in Licking county, of that State, till he came West; he came to this county in the fall of 1854; he then learned the carpenter's trade when twenty years old; when he first came he en- gaged at farming near Mineral Ridge, and about the year 1857 he took charge of the old Boonesboro Hotel, and continued in this for six months, and then returned to his home at Mineral Ridge; in 1857 he went to Pikes Peak in May, and re- turned in December of the same year; he came to his present loca- tion about twelve years ago, and his homestead consists of 300 acres of land; he held the office of township clerk in an early day for two terms, and in 1858 was appointed postmast- er under Buchanan's administra- tion; he was married in Ohio in 1840, to Miss Louisa F. Wilcox, of Pennsylvania, and they have a fami- ly of four sons living: Lewis S., Clif- ford I., Frank and Alfred; they have lost four: Eva (late wife of Alfred Schleiter), Albert and two infants; his ancestors were all na- tives of the New England States. OHN, JAMES, farmer; Sec. 34; J P. O. Boone; was born in Ches- ter county, Pennsylvania, November 16th, 1801; he was raised there on a farm till eighteen years of age and also received his education in the schools of that county; in 1819 he emigrated to Muskingum county, Ohio, and made it his home till he came to this county in 1855; he has lived on his present farm since 1858 and now owns 520 acres of land; he was elected justice of the peace in an early day and has also held vari- ous township offices; he was married
in Muskingum county, Ohio, in 1828, to Miss Mary Gibbons, of that State, who died June 14th, 1873, and left a family of three sons and one daughter now living: Edward D., Jas. W., George J. and Margaret (now the wife of William Collins, of this township); his ancestry, on his fath- er's side, were of Welsh descent, his grandfather having come from Wales, and on his mother's side, of German origin.
JOHNSON, T. A., farmer and stock raiser; Sec. 26; P. O. Boone; was born in the State of Pennsyl- vania in the year 1822, and when eleven years of age his parents emi- grated to Ohio, and he was princi- pally raised in Muskingum county, of that State; he was raised on a farın, and has always followed agri- cultural pursuits as his occupation ; in 1861 he came to Wapello, this State, and the following year came to this county; he has lived in this township for fifteen years; he owns 154 acres of improved land; he was married, in Ohio, June 15th, 1848, to Miss Mary A. Atwood, a native of that State; they have eight chil- dren living: James A., Andrew C., John W., T. A. Jr., Catharine E., Harvey P., Silas P. and Lydia A.
K ELLY, JOHN, steward of county farm; P. O. Boone; the subject of the following sketch was born in Kentucky in the year 1823, and was taken to Indiana by his parents when quite young; he was raised there at farming as an oc- cupation, and came to this county in 1855, and has always resided in this township; since he took charge of the county farm he has given the best of satisfaction, and seems espe- cially adapted to the calling: he was married in Indiana, in 1845, to Miss- N. Case of Kentucky; they have, by this union, a family of four children living: Marcus L., Lorenzo D., Anzy J. and Jennie.
KNIGHT, DANIEL, farmer and
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stock raiser; Sec. 25; P. O. Boone; was born in England in the year 1821; he was raised there and re- ceived his education in the schools of that country; in 1855 he came to America and first settled in the State of Wisconsin, and came to this county in 1858 and settled on his present homestead, which consists of 450 acres; he has been connected with various township offices: super- visor, trustee and others; he was married in his native country, in 1847, to Miss Emma Dimery; they have, as the fruits of this union, nine children: Rosina, Pauline, El- len, Daniel, Henry, Bertha, John, Zeph. and Viola; his ancestry were all natives of England.
L EININGER, ADAM, farmer; Sec. 25; P. O. Boone; the sub- ject of this sketch was born in Ful- ton county, Ohio, in 1846, and in 1856 he came to this county with his parents; his farm consists of 80 acres of well improved land; he was married in this county, November 20th, 1867, to Miss Fannie Sherm, of Bucks county, Pennsylvania; they have, by this union, a family of two sons and three daughters: John W., Abbie C. M., Emma D. R., Mary L. M. and George F .; his pa- rents were both born in France.
M ERTZ, LEWIS L., farmer and stock raiser; Sec. 12; P. O. Mineral Ridge; the subject of this sketch was born in Bavaria, Ger- many, on the 22d day of February, 1847, and at nine years of age he came to the United States with a widowed mother, who located at Rochester, New York; he here be- came an apprentice at the machinist trade at twelve years of age; heed- ing his country's call for troops in the late rebellion, he enlisted (when he became old enough) in March, 1863, in Battery L, First New York light artillery, and served his country till the close of the war, after which he followed his trade of
engineering throughout the oil reg- ions of Pennsylvania; he then went to Keithsburg, Mercer county, Illi- nois, and engaged in the furniture business with his brother in the fall of 1865; in 1867 he was engaged with a surveying party on the U. P. R. R .; after this he went to Helena, Montana, and there had charge of the machinery for the Col- umbia Mining Company; he then went to Chicago and engaged with a furniture manufactory,having charge of their steam-heating apparatus and machinery; after severing his connection in this regard, he came to this county in 1874 and engaged in his present occupation with a farm of 320 acres; he found a wife in the person of Miss Jennette Keith, of Keithsburg, Illinois, whom he mar- ried at that place in 1871; the com- pliment of their family circle are four children: Sibyl, Jacob, Willie and Minnie.
P HIPPS, ELI, farmer; Sec. 35; P. O. Boone; is among the early settlers of this township, and was born in Washington county, Virginia, on the 27th day of De- cember, 1812, and lived there until 1831, and then removed to Vigo county, Indiana, where he remained until 1831, and thence to Hancock county, Illinois, and was a resident of that county until 1849; he then went overland to California and lived there seven years, engaged in min- ing, and with satisfactory results; in 1856 he returned to the States and settled where he now lives, on land he located for the benefit of his children before he went to the Pa- cific Coast; he now owns in this and adjoining counties about 1,000 acres, and is one of the large tax-payers of the county; nearly 800 acres of the land he has improved himself, and 360 acres of his homestead is timber land that he has cleared, and it is to such sturdy pioneers as Mr. Phipps that the rising generation are in-
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debted for the reputation that Boone county enjoys; a large portion of his home farm is underlaid with coal of choice quailty, and the vein averages from four to four-and-a-half feet in thickness; Mr. Phipps has been twice married; first, to Miss Nancy Wood, in 1831; she was a native of Virginia; Mrs. Phipps died in 1847, leaving three children : David, Pasha and Emily Jane; he married for his second wife Rebecca Griffith, in 1860; she was born in Kentucky; they have by this union five chil- dren: Jennie, William, Cora, Charles, Lonie and Lennie.
HAEFFER, WILLIAM, black-
S smith, Mineral Ridge; was born in White county, Indiana, in 1851, on the 27th day of April; he came to this county with his parents in 1855, who located in Pilot Mound township; when eighteen years of age he learned his trade; he came to his present location in 1872, and in 1874 he sold out and removed to Story county, and in 1877 came back, and has since remained here; he married in this county in 1872 to Miss Mary Hanson, a native of Sweden; they have by this union a family of four children: John, Fred- erick, Henry and Annie.
SHAEFFER, A. M., farmer; Sec. 35; P. O. Boone; was born in White county, Indiana, January 26, 1843, and came from there to this county in 1855, and first located in Pilot Mound township; in 1862 he came to this township, and has lived here since, except two years that he made his home in Hamilton county; he settled on his present farm in 1867; he has been connected with various offices of the township, and at pres- ent is constable, road supervisor and school director; in February, 1862, he enlisted in company K, Sixteenth Iowa infantry, and served three years; he was married in this coun- ty in 1865 to Miss Dorotha Goetz- man, a native of Ohio; they have
by this union three children living: Maggie L., Samuel P. and Elsie E .; they have lost two: L. M. and Mar- cus L.
SHURTS, W. R., farmer; Sec. 21; P. O. Boone; the subject of this. sketch was born in Indiana on the 6th day of January, 1846, and when about six years of age his parents moved to Wisconsin, and when sev- enteen years old he moved back to Indiana, and in 1866 he permanent- ly located in this county, where he owns an improved farm of ninety acres; he was married, January 9, 1870, to Miss Elizabeth Pollard, of Indiana; they have by this union a family of two sons and two daugh- ters: Mira M., William R. Jr., Amy A. and Oneida P.
SILVER, A. T., farmer; Sec. 18; P. O. Mineral Ridge; was born in Warren county, Ohio, February 25, 1827, and when five years of age his parents came to Indiana; he was raised in this State till he came West, in 1853, and settled in this county, but had made three trips to it prior to this date; he was at the first lot sale at Boonsboro, and was engaged in assisting to select the swamp lands under an act of Con- gress; after this he engaged in clerk- ing at Boonesboro for McCall & Sypher, and in 1856 engaged in the mercantile business for himself at Mineral Ridge, which he continued for two years, also holding the office of postmaster and justice of the peace; he then engaged in his pres- ent occupation; his farm consists of 120 acres; he was married in this county April 15, 1855, to Miss S. E. Friedley, of Indiana; they have one adopted son: George W.
SMITH, I. D., miner; Sec. 3; P. O. Boone; was born in Armstrong county, Pennsylvania, on the 7th day of May, 1845; his father was a practical miner, and the son since he was ten years old has been en- gaged in the saine business; he
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came to this county in 1865; in 1879, after prospecting for coal in several localities, he leased eighty acres of coal land of E. Phipps for twenty-five years and purchased for- ty acres adjoining, and since that period has been operating with flat- tering prospects and satisfactory re- sults; the vein he first struck is about three and one-half feet in thickness and constantly increasing, and he has good reason to think in a short time it will reach four and one-half feet and the coal of superior quality.
STERRETT, SAMUEL M., farm- er; Sec. 21; P. O. Mineral Ridge; was born in Tippecanoe county, In- diana, in the year 1835, and was raised there and made it his home up to the time that he came to this county, in the fall of 1865; he also received his early education in the schools of that State; since he came to this county he has been engaged in agricultural pursuits; his farm consists of 396 acres; he has held the office of township supervisor and is the present incumbent of the office of trustee; he has been twice married: first in this State, August 21, 1859, to Miss Mary J. Dawkins, of Kentucky, who died January 14, 1869, and left three children: Toli- tha J., Celista A. and Margaret E .; was married a second time in this county to Miss Minnie Baker, daughter of Joel Baker; they have by this union a family of three children: May, Sarah and Robert L.
SWANSON, P. A., of the firm of Swainson Bros., dealers in gener- al merchandise, Mineral Ridge; was born in East Gothland, Sweden, in the year 1840; at eight years of age he came with his parents to America · and followed various occupations till he engaged in the mercantile business in 1865 as clerk for Mr. Ericson, in the same building he
now occupies himself; he continued in this capacity till 1871, when he and his brother purchased the stock and have since carried on the business under the present firm name; he was appointed postmaster at this place May 6, 1872, under Grant's first administration and has held it since; during the years 1863-4 he was in the provost marshal's office at Burlington, of the first district.
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