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HENRY W. SIMS, farmer, Sec. 31; P. O. Maquoketa ; was born in Brad- ford Co., Penn., on the 19th of March, 1827, where he was raised until 11 years of age, when his father moved to Ogle Co., Ill., where he lived until he was 24, when he moved to Jackson Co. and located where he lives at present ; he was School Director of his township several years, and was also President of the School Board for one year ; he is a Republican in politics. He married Jeanette Bunton, a native of Scotland, in Ogle Co., Ill., on the 20th day of March, 1849, and had six children, five of whom are living at the writing of this history-Alice A., Agnes E., George H., Alexander W. and Annie M. He and his family are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. When he first came to Jackson Co., he was very poor and had but little capital to start with, and now has a fine homestead and a fortune of about $6,000 or $7,000; owns 115 acres in Jackson and 30 in Clinton Co.
A. B. SMITH, farmer, Sec. 17; P. O. Union Center; owns 125 acres of land. He was born in Vermont April 3, 1814, and when but 2 years old, his par- ents removed to Cayuga Co., N. Y., where he received his education ; in 1840, his father and mother dying in New York, he removed to Washtenaw Co., Mich., and
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commenced farming, which he followed continually until 1854, when, becoming dissat- isfied, he removed to Jackson Co. and settled in Fairfield Township, where he has since resided. His first wife was Eliza Hudson, a native of New York, whom he married in that State in 1842; she died in Michigan a few years later; they had three children, one only survives-James Henry, who is married and resides in Shelby Co., Iowa ; he married again, Mary W. Hull, a native of Vermont, in Washtenaw Co., Mich., in 1851, and had eleven children, six still living-Edwin D., George H., Helen E., Agnes Mary, Lucy Amelia and Milton C .; his second wife died in Jackson Co. April 10, 1874. He was a very poor man when he started in Iowa, and now, after a life of hard work, economy, and strict attention to business, he has a comfortable homestead and a fortune of from $8,000 to $10,000. He and his family are all members of the Bap- tist Church ; he is a Democrat.
ROBERT L. STEWART, farmer, Sec. 19; P. O. Union Center ; was born in County Down, in Ireland, in 1824, where he lived until he was 22 years old, when he emigrated to the United States and located in Monroe Co., N. Y., where he resided a short time over two years, when he again moved to Butler Co., Ohio, where he lived for four years, and, in 1853, moved to Jackson Co., Iowa, and remained for one year, when he moved back to Butler Co., Ohio, where he lived two or three years, when he again pulled up stakes and came back to Jackson Co., Iowa, in 1856, and has lived there ever since. He has served his township faithfully for two terms as Road Supervisor. He received his education in Ireland before emigrating. He has always been a strong Democrat since he became a naturalized citizen of the United States. He married his second wife, Agnes Clark, a native of County Down in Ireland, in Dubuque, Iowa, on the 28th of March, 1858, and had four children, all of whom are living, namely, Robert Clark, William, Mary and James L .; he married his first wife, Susanah Marshall, a native of County Down in Ireland, in Monroe Co., N. Y., in 1851, and had one child, who is living at the present time, namely, Charles B. He and his family are attendants of the Methodist Episcopal Church. When he first came to Iowa, he was a poor man and totally without capital, but by dint of persever- ance, energy and hard work, he has a nice and comfortable homestead, and a fortune of from $7,000 to $8,000; owns 130 acres of land.
GEORGE STORM, farmer, Sec. 22; P. O. Spragueville; was born in Mecklenburg, Germany, on the 16th day of April, 1833, where he was raised and edu- cated. In 1853, he emigrated to the United States and located in Cook Co., Ill., where he lived nine years, when he removed to Jackson Co., Iowa, where he has lived ever since. He has served his township several years as Township Trustee, School Director and Road Supervisor. Has always been a Democrat since he first became a natural- ized citizen of the United States. He married Lena Burmister, a native of Mecklen- burg in Germany, in the city of Chicago, on the 26th day of March, 1858; had six children, four of whom are living at the writing of this history-Frederick Carl, Charles John, William August and Henry Frederick. He and his family are mem- bers of the 'German Lutheran Church. When he first came to Iowa, he was a com- paratively poor man, with but a limited capital, but, by dint of industry, perseverance, energy and strict attention to business, he has a magnificent homestead and a fortune estimated at $15,000 to $16,000; owns 350 acres of land.
JOHN STORM, farmer, Sec. 23; P. O. Spragueville ; was born in Meck- lenburg, Germany, Aug. 18, 1836, where he was raised and educated. He emigrated to the United States and located in Illinois in 1852, where he lived for one year and a half, and, in 1854, he came to Iowa and has lived there ever since. He has served his township several years as Road Supervisor. During the war of the rebellion, he did gallant service in Company A, 24th I. V. I. He married Mena Hiland, a native of Germany, in Jackson Co., on the 19th day of April, 1868; had five children-Caro- line, Mena, Louis, Dora and Ennie. He is now worth about $15,000, after starting without any capital whatever. He and his family are attendants of the German Luth- eran Church. He is a strong Democrat and has ever been so since he first became a naturalized citizen of the United States. He was badly wounded in the battles of Champion Hills, Miss., and Winchester, Va. Owns 257 acres of land.
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A. D. STROMEYER, farmer, Sec. 24; P. O. Spragueville. Owns 180 acres of land ; he is also the owner of the celebrated Norman French horse " Pino," which cost him $2,500, besides the expense attendant upon bringing him to this country. Mr. S. was born in Hanover, in Germany, on the 1st of February, 1844, where he lived until 3 years of age, when his parents emigrated to the United States and located iu Cook Co., Ill., about fifteen miles from the city of Chicago; where he lived until 1854, and attended school. It was then he came to Iowa and located in Jackson Co., where he has lived ever since, and has been publicly identified with the county and its interests ever since. He has served his township long and faithfully as Road Supervisor. He is a strong Republican in his politics. He married Minnie Bramer, a native of Germany, in Jackson Co., Iowa, on the 9th of June, 1869; had four children, three of whom are living-Louis, Adelia and Dora. He and his family are attendants of the German Lutheran Church. When he first began life in Jackson Co., he was a very poor man, with but a limited capital, and now, after a few years of industry and perseverance, he has a fine homestead, and a fortune of from $8,000 to $10,000.
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ELIZA WRIGHT GOODENOW was born in town of Bolton, county of Warren, State of New York, March 9, 1818; her early life was passed amid rural scenes, in the happiest of homes, and within sight of Lake George, of historic interest. IIcr father, Thomas M. Wright, a native of Connecticut, was a man of more than usual executive ability and philanthropic purpose ; he was a leader in good works, and, although not a member of any church, was liberal in support of the same ; was devotional in his nature, and a constant student of the Bible; he was devotedly attached to the Masonic Order, of which he was an honored member ; he was kind and generous to all, emphatically the poor man's friend, a noble humanitarian. In 1798, he married Miss Eliza Smead, of Massachusetts, and, in 1803, they, with a small col- ony from Massachusetts, emigrated to Warren Co., N. Y., which was then a wilderness; this earnest, harmonious colony was successful, and soon the wilderness bloomed with the beauty of fruit and flower, of schoolhouse and church ; the first church erected was large and substantial, and long remained the well-frequented house of God; the high- backed family pews with closed doors were occupied each Sabbath with religious regu- larity ; the good Pastor taught inclosed in high box pulpit, and the choir stood in a row in the gallery and sang God's praises with the accompaniment of a bass-viol, which was made and played by Thomas Wright, the oldest brother of the subject of this sketch ; he is now living in Maquoketa. Eliza Smead Wright, mother of Mrs. Good- enow, was a consistent member of the Presbyterian Church, and all her children- eight in number-were early baptized communicants ; she was a wise, loving mother, a sympathizing friend, one whose every-day life gave evidence of the indwelling spirit of Christ ; she was removed to a higher life in 1828 (Nov. 15) and though but 47 years of age, she left the record of a well-proportioned, successful Christian life. Her com- panion continued the lonely pilgrimage of life nearly thirty-six years longer, and passed to the glory-land at the ripe age of 88, on the 8th of February, 1864. Mrs. Goode- now was reared in a happy home, where practical labor and Christian charity were cardinal virtues. On the 3d of October, 1839, she married John E. Goodenow, whose biography appears elsewhere in this volume ; the winter after her marriage, her husband and herself went from New York to Iowa with their own conveyance; the varied experiences of that journey would grace a modern novel ; they settled in Jackson Co., and were pioneer sovereigns of the region in and about the present site of Maquoketa ; her father and all her brothers and sisters came to Iowa at different times between 1839 and 1846, and settled in or near Maquoketa, which has been her home for nearly forty years. " Goodenow's Cabin " was widely famed in early days as the traveler's home.
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She is the mother of eight children, seven of whom still live; one, a married daughter, is a resident of Chicago ; the remaining six, whether married or single, still linger near the " ancestral tree," and claim Maquoketa as their first and only home. Mrs. Goode- now inherited the practical sense and benignant nature of both parents ; she is never weary in well-doing; all classes call on her for counsel and aid; she is the trusted friend of young and old ; her religion is " to do good." She is the worthy consort of the honored founder of the city. and is lovingly known as the " Mother of Maquoketa." MRS. JULIETT CARMAN, daughter of Henry and Catharine Smith, of New York City ; was born December 13, 1813; her father was a prominent carriage manufacturer ; her childhood home still stands on Broadway, N. Y., between Howard and Grand streets, but the old landmarks are nearly all removed by the wondrous expansion of the city during the last half-century. Mrs. Carman was educated in New York City. On the 2d of June, 1831, she was married to Lewis Carman, and remained in the East until 1843, when she, with her husband, two sons and two daugh- ters, came West and settled iu Sabula, where they continue to reside. A younger sister -Kate Louisa Smith, also came West with them ; when she landed at Sabula and saw the log cabin on the river bank, and the few houses in sight, and the wild, lonely scene of nature, she was overcome with homesickness, and ran back upon the boat and hid ; she was never contented in Iowa, and, as my informant declares, " wept aprons full of tears." Another sister, Mrs. Hubble, had lived West five years, and was the cause of the family coming West. Mrs. Carman took the sister, who was so unreconciled to pio- neer life, and visited relatives in New Orleans, passing the winter there, and then returned to St. Louis, where her sister remained, and Mrs. Carman once more united with her husband in preparing a permanent home in Sabula. In 1845, a log house was put up on the farm where they now live. The farm was christened " Paulding Grove." About the beginning of the rebellion, they built the fine residence which is now their home. Mr. and Mrs. Carman have had six children-the first-born died unnamed; William was born Nov. 16, 1837, and died at home Dec. 25, 1862; Lewis Augustus, born Nov. 30, 1842, died in Winchester Hospital Nov. 14, 1864, from wounds received in the battle of Cedar Creek, Va., under Sheridan ; Catharine Louisa, the oldest daughter, married Orrin Miller, of Chicago, and since his decease she has lived with her parents; Maria Josephine, married Benjamin W. Seaward, banker, in Bellevue, Iowa ; Charles Paulding, married Calista Hickox, daughter of Charles and Cordelia Hickox, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Mr. Carman is a man of culture-an edu- cated farmer ; as an honest man, respected by all, he is passing to a ripe age, possessed of a competency. Their forty-eighth marriage anniversary was made a very pleasant affair by a large gathering of friends at their home; their golden wedding, which will occur June 2, 1881, will be made a memorable occasion. Before coming West, Mrs. Carman was a member of the Dutch Reformed Church at New Brunswick, N. J., but has since affiliated with the Congregationalists. She is a woman of advanced ideas, believes iu the capabilities of woman, and that the future will give enlarged privileges and opportunities to the disfranchised half of humanity. She is public spirited, and the friend of temperance and all moral reforms. "She looketh well to the ways of her household," but lives
" For the cause that lacks assistance ; For the wrongs that need resistance ; And the good that she can do."
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