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J. W. MILLER. photograph artist, Anamosa ; is a native of Fairfield Co., Ohio, and was born July 1, 1941; when 3 years of age, in 1844, his parents came to Iowa by wagon ; they were about six weeks on the way and arrived in Jones Co. in the fall of 1844; they located in Rome Township; he grew up and attended the common schools and completed his education at Lisbon, in Linn Co .; he learned the trade of watchmaking and jeweler and engaged in that business ; he also studied photography here and in Dubuque; he carried on the business together with the jewelry business
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for some years; on account of his health, he gave up the jewelry trade, and, for the past seven years, has earried on photographing, and has the oldest gallery in Anamosa. He held the office of Postmaster of Mechanicsville for four years. He married Miss Emma G. Tyson, a native of Indiana. Oct. 3, 1865 ; they have one son -- Virgil Clifford, born Oct. 30, 1868. Mr. Miller's father and mother are still living in Rome Township and are the oldest settlers now living there.
C. H. MONGER, publisher of the Anamosa Journal, the organ of the Democratic party for Jones Co.
ERASTUS MOREY, farmer, Sec. 1 ; P. O. Anamosa ; was born in Wash- ington Co., N. Y., Feb. 19, 1815 : he grew up to manhood and lived there until 40 years of age; in the spring of 1855, he came West to Iowa and located in Jones Co., where he now lives; he bought 120 acres for $5 per acre and engaged in farming ; he has lived on this farm twenty-four years ; he had nothing when he began life; he has sold wheat for 30 cents per bushel and corn for 15 cents ; he now owns 280 aeres of good land, finely improved, all paid for; his success in life is owing to his own efforts and good management. On the 26th of April, 1845, he married Miss Electa A. Carr, a native of Washington Co., N. Y .; she was raised in Vermont ; they have five chil- dren-Edwin S. (in this eounty), Austin H. (in this county), Eugene C. (lives in Chicago), Albert A. (lives in Chicago), Adeline I. (at home).
JOHN MORELAND, merchant dealer in groceries, Main street, Ana- mosa; is a native of England and was born Nov. 19, 1842; his parents came to America in 1848 ; he came to Linn Co., Iowa, in 1858. After the breaking-out of the rebellion, he entered the army, enlisting in Co. F, 20th I. V. I .; he was wounded in the siege of Fort Blakely, Ala. ; he was in the service three years. Ile came to Ana- mosa in 1876, and was appointed one of the guards at the Penitentiary and served in that position three years, then engaged in his present business. In 1862, he married Miss Elizabeth Ross, a native of England; they have five children -- Eliza, Charles. Mary, Ida and Lillie.
PHILIP HOYER, farmer, See. 27; P. O. Anamosa ; born Dee. 19, 1808, in Center Co., Penn .; he came to Stark Co .. Ohio, when a boy, thence to Marion Co., Ohio ; in 1853, he came to Jones Co .; owns 130 acres land. Married Elizabeth Spade in 1831 ; she was born in 1818 in Pennsylvania, died in 1866; have ten children- Margaret, John, Albert, Levina, Eliza, Daniel, Harvey, Elizabeth, Samnel and Catharine. Second marriage to Mary Bechtol in 1868; she was born in 1825 in Pennsylvania. Samuel enlisted in 1863 and served till the end of the war. Democrat ; member of the Lutheran Church.
SERVITUS NEEDHAM, of the firm of Needham & Burritt, livery and boarding stable, Anamosa ; is a native of Addison Co., Vt., and was born Aug. 3, 1820. He grew up to manhood, and lived in that State until 1855, when he came West to Illinois ; lived in La Salle Co. two years ; then came to Whiteside Co., where he lived seven years, and, in 1866, he came to Jones Co. and located in Anamosa, and estab- lished his present business, and has eontinned it for thirteen years. Needham & Bur- ritt are the oldest livery firm in Anamosa. Mr. Needham was united in marriage to Miss Ilannah M. Burritt, from Chittenden Co., Vt., Jun- 20, 1854; they have one son-Oscar M .; now attending Beloit College. MIr. Needham has had the office of City Councilman.
NEWTON S. NOBLE, retired, Anamosa; is a native of Southwick, Hampden Co., Mass., and was born March 6, 1831. He grew up to manhood in that State. He was united in marriage Jan. 26, 1852, to Miss Sarah L. Pepper, a native of Southwick, Hampden Co., Mass. In 1855, they came to Iowa and located at Ana- mosa ; the following year, he was appointed Deputy Sheriff, and, in 1857, he was elected Sheriff of Jones Co., and held that office between two and three years. He afterward returned to Massachusetts, and gave his attention to raising tobacco. He went South and was engaged in contracting and building railroads in Texas. He returned to Ana- mosa, and, for the past five years, he has been engaged in cultivating and raising tobacco. He was the first to introduce the culture of tobacco to any extent in this State, and he
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has fully demonstrated that it can be raised with success and profit. Following his example, many others are giving attention to the same pursuit quite extensively. At the County Convention recently held, Mr. Noble was chosen as candidate for Represent- ative to the State Legislature.
A. B. OAKLEY, attorney at law, of the firm of Oakley & Jamison, Ana- mosa ; is a native of Fairfield Co., Conn., and was born Aug. 8, 1835. He grew up and attended school there. When 20 years of age, he came to Illinois, and attended school at Mount Morris. In the spring of 1861, he came to Cedar Co., Iowa, and located at Mechanicsville, and engaged in teaching. He began reading law in Connect- ieut, and was admitted to the bar. In the spring of IS77. he came to Anamosa, and associated with Mr. Jamison, and since then has practiced his profession here. He held the office of Superintendent of Schools of Cedar Co. In April, 1858, he married Miss Hannah Miller, from New York ; they have had three children ; only one son survives- Raymond. born April 2, 1876.
AMBROSE PARSONS. deceased ; was born in Knox Co., Ky .. in November, 1804, and, with his parents, moved to Monroe Co., Ind., when 11 years old. After reaching manhood, April 4, 1829, he married Miss Susannah Beall, of Blooming- ton, Ind. In the spring of 1836, they moved to Kane Co., Ill. In the spring of 1838, he came to Iowa, and arrived in Jones Co., at Fairview, on the 9th of May. He was one of the earliest settlers. Dubuque was only a small town, and was his nearest market. The first time he went to mill after he settled here was to his old home in Kane Co., Ill. He went with an ox team, and was gone six weeks. He took up a elaim according to the laws of the neighborhood, and engaged in farming and stock- raising. Upon the removal of the county seat from Edinburg, he was one of the Com- missioners to make the new location. He continued to live in Fairview. where he first settled, for thirty-five years, until his death, which occurred Feb. 14, 1873. He was a man of great kindness of heart, socially and morally a good citizen, and noted for his integrity, and no man's word went farther than his. His funeral was one of the largest that ever took place in that neighborhood. He left a large estate, entirely unineum- bered, which, by frugality and a life of industry, he had accumulated. Mr. and Mrs. Parsons had twelve children, ten of whom are living. One of his sons was the first person buried in the present Fairview Cemetery. Mrs. Parsons is still living on the old home place, west of Fairview.
T. E. PATTERSON. County Treasurer, Anamosa; is a native of Fred- ericktown, Ohio, and was born Nov. 30, 1840. When 13 years of age, he came to Iowa, and lived in Cedar Co. until he came to Jones Co. in 1861. During the war, be enlisted in Co. E, 1st I. V. C., and was in a number of battles and many fights and skirmishes. After the war elosed, he returned to Jones Co. In 1875, he was elected County Treasurer, and was re-elected in 1877, and was again re-elected in 1879. He has also held town and school offiees. He married Miss Emma Gillette, a native of Westfield, Mass., Oct. 14, 1861 ; they have three children -- Nellie K., Louie and Fordham.
F. F. PARSONS. carpenter and builder, Anamosa; is a native of Berk- shire Co., Mass., and was born Jan. 7, 1848. He came to Iowa in 1864, and located in Anamosa, and learned the trade of earpenter and joiner, and since then has been engaged in building. In 1872, he married Miss Elizabeth Crombie, a native of Can- ada ; she was brought up in Illinois; they have two children-James and Charlotte.
ALBERT L. PEET. farmer, See. 31; P. O. Martelle; born Sept. 14, 1847, in Jones Co., Iowa ; he owns 325 acres of land. Married Miss Ella Zimmer- man Sept. 12, 1875 ; she was born in Greenfield Township. Jones Co .; have two chil- dren-Julius D. and Susanna. Democrat.
D. A. PEET, of the firm of D. A. Peet & Son, dealers in dry goods and groceries, Main street. Anamuosa ; is a native of Fulton Co., N. Y .. and was born Dec. 26, 1830 ; he lived there until 16 years of age, when he came to lowa with his parents ; they came by wagon and were five weeks on the road, and arrived in this county in November, 1846; they settled in Fairview, and were among the early settlers there.
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When 18 years of age, Mr. Peet entered a store as elerk, and he has been connected with the mercantile business in this county since then, over thirty years; when he first began, he had nothing. and his success is owing to his own efforts. In the spring of 1856, he was united in marriage to Miss Emily A. Crain, a native of Kala- mazoo, Mich .; they have two children-one son, George S. (engaged in business with his father), and one daughter. Emily A.
JAMES M. PEET. retired farmer ; was born in Solon, Cortland Co., N. Y., Sept. 1, 1821 ; was the son of Gideon Peet and Abigail Wildman, of same county, but orig- inally from Connecticut ; his father was a good mechanic and a hard-working farmer. and the subject of this sketch was early trained to habits of industry, while toiling upon a rugged farm in Central New York. He was one of a family of nine children. eight sons and a daughter. each of whom lived to become the head of a numerous fat- ily. At the age of 19, he, with his parents and six brothers, came to Fairview Town- ship, Jones Co., Iowa, and settled on 560 acres of land five miles southwest from Ana- mosa, the county seat of Jones County. Mr. Peet now owns this land, which was entered by his father, at the Land Office in Dubuque, in 1840; the father died in 1842, but the sons and mother continued to carry on the farm together until the death of the inother, in 1847, when Mr. Peet bought out the other heirs and became sole proprietor of the pioneer homestead. By subsequent acquirement. he is now owner of about nine hundred acres, of which fully eight hundred are under good cultivation : his home farm has taken five first premiums as the best farm and as the best-managed farmu in the county. He was married June 5, 1845, to Miss Ann Dallas, at Red Oak Grove, Cedar Co., Iowa ; she was the daughter of Robert Dallas and Isabel Couts. of that place. Mr. Peet bas had four children-William G., born May 8. 1846; Lorada E., born Dec. 3, 1848, and died March 17, 1877 : Robert M., born March 20. 1-56. aud Orra D .. born July 30. 1864. His son, William G., was married Feb. 8, 1872. to Miss Eliza E. Saum, daughter of George Saum, Walnut Grove. Jones Co., a wealthy and prominent farmer. Robert M. was married Nov. 26 ( Thanksgiving ), 1-78. to Miss Carrie B. Carbee, daughter of Capt. William Carbee, of Linn Co .. Iowa, who was killed during a charge at the head of a company in an attack on New Orleans in 1864. Both these sous are prosperous farmers and successful stock-breeders in Jones Co. For nearly forty years. Mr. Peet was a laborious, enterprising farmer, enthusiastic in raising blooded stock, and judicious in the selection of his crops for profitable general farm- ing. His improvements were first-class and his farm was attractive to all members of his family ; his wife, after nearly thirty years of joint pilgrimage, went before to the land of rest on the 22d of September, 1874. The oldest daughter, for years an invalid, followed the mother ere the leaves of three autumns had fallen. The farm having lost its charm, he gave charge of it to his son Robert and moved to Anamosa, where he purchased a home and now resides; industry and economy, combined with practical judgment and business capacity, have rendered him financially independent : he has retired from active service and is passing his later years in the serene enjoyment of domestic life and ample competency. He was married to Miss Matilda Weaver, of Anamosa, on the 5th of July, 1877. Mr. Peet is not a member of any church organ- ization or secret society, neither is he elosely bound to any political party-is a conserv- ative Independent. has more faith in practices than professions. Ile is a publie-spirited and honorable citizen ; he enjoys recounting the experiences of pioneer life; he laughs at the memory of the beautiful coverlet of snow which sometimes fell upon his bel in his airy chamber. He smilingly tells of social calls upon neighbors fifty miles distant . tells with pride of the good crops raised on land tilled with the bungling plow having a wooden molding-board ; tells cautiously of the " Vigilance" exploits with the out- laws who were compelled to " hug a black-jack" and their eurses were changed. by stinging persuasiens, to abject promises and piteous prayers ; tells of convicted crimi- nals " reported" to have been run into the Mississippi and bound to lous, which they Were advised to keep " right side up with care," as they floated to the Gulf; tells of grain 61 cents per bushel, of frozen feet, of threatened " bear-hugs; " tells, with enthusiasm, of the varied hopes and fears, trials and triumphs of the Western pioneer.
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S. T. PIERCE, attorney at law, Anamosa ; is a native of Canton, St. Law- rence Co., N. Y., and was horn March 1, 1830; he grew up to manhood and received his education in that State; he studied law in the office of Hon. John L. Russell, and was admitted to the bar in September, 1853; he camne West to Iowa the same year. and located in Anamosa and engaged in the practice of law. Shortly after he came, he was elected District Attorney ; in 1856, he was appointed District Attorney of Dubuque County ; there is no attorney in practice in Jones Co. that was here when he came, in 1853, and since then he has practiced his profession in this county and in the north part of the State. Among those who have read law under him, five or six have been elected Judges in the different courts.
L. N. PITCHER, Anamosa ; buying and shipping horses; is a native of Cattaraugus Co., N. Y. ; his parents came to Du Page Co., Ill., when he was only six years of age; he grew up mostly there and in Kane Co., Ill., and came to Iowa in 1856 and located in Jones Co., Cass Township; he was engaged in farming for some years. In November. 1871, he came to Anamosa and engaged in the livery business and continued two years, and since then has been engaged buying and shipping horses East. While living in Cass Township, he spent five years in Colorado and on the Pacific Coast ; at the Democratic Convention recently held to nominate county officers. Mr. Pitcher received the nomination for Sheriff. He married Miss Lena Seroggs, from Anamosa, March 30, 1865 ; they have three children-Allen, Samantha and Irwin.
MATHEW PORTER, farmer. Sec. 29; P. O. Fairview ; born Sept. 20, 1818, in Adams Co., Ohio; when a boy he came with his parents to Indiana, and, in 1842, he came to Jones Co .; he has made all the improvements on his present farm since coming to it. Married Maria McFarlin Jan. 2, 1840; she was born in October, 1820, in Virginia ; have eleven children-Rachel Ann, now Mrs. C. W. Breed; Minerva Jane, now Mrs. F. S. Dumont; John William; Mary, now Mrs. S. H. Myers ; David ; Ellemina, now Mrs. A. H. Sherman; Charles F., Francis Marion, Harry and Fred. Has been Township Trustee and School Direc- tor; Democrat.
WILLIAM PORT, milk dairy business, Anamosa ; is a native of England ; was born Sept. 16, 1833 ; he grew up to manhood and received his education there ; he emigrated to. America in 1852, and came to Iowa the same year and located in Jones Co .; he arrived in Anamosa in August, and was one of the early settlers here; he learned the milling business, taught school four years, and afterward engaged in farming for eight years, and since then has been engaged in his present business; he owns his stock and the place where he lives. On the 8th of October, 1857, he married Miss Angeline Lockwood. a native of Indiana ; she came to Iowa when very young; they have five children-Frank W., William H., Rebecca A .. Minnie B. and Glenn A.
F. H. PRENTICE, engineer of the Anamosa Water-Works, Anamosa : is a native of Onondaga Co., N. Y., and was born in 1811 ; he grew up to manhood and lived in that State until 1850, then came West and lived in Illinois five years, and in Wisconsin fifteen years ; he came to Iowa in 1871. and located at Independence; in 1873, he came to Jones Co. and located at Anamosa ; he has occupied his present posi- tion as engineer of the water-works since their completion in September, 1575 ; he hss held town and school offices. lle married Miss Catharine Tyler, a native of Canada, in 1835 ; she died in April, 1872 ; they had five children. three of whom are living- Tyler S., Engineer on the C. & N. W. R'y; Theresa, now Mrs. Ives, living in Buchanan Co. : Elizabeth, now Mrs. Ross, living in Wisconsin.
CHARLES O. RHODEN, watchmaker and jeweler, and dealer in watches, clocks, jewelry and silver ware, Anamosa ; is a native of Sweden, and was born March 14, 1845; he grew up to manhood and learned the trade of watchmaker; he emigrated to America in 1865, came to Chicago and lived there four years, and came to Iowa in 1870, and located in Monticello and engaged in the jewelry business ; Mr. Rhoden is a practical watchmaker, and thoroughly understands the making and repair- ing of fine watches, and does the leading business here. He married Miss Lillian
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Sayles, from New York State, November 18, 1873 ; they have had three children ; only one son survives, William O
JOHN RHODES. merchant, dealer in groceries, Anamosa ; is a native of Akron, Ohio, and was born Oct. 16, 1813; he grew up to manhood and lived there until 1851, then went to South Bend. Ind. ; in 1856. he came to Webster City. Iowa; he built the .first brick store in that town, and remained there eleven years, then removed to Belvidere, Boone Co .. Ill., and remained there eight years, and in 1875, came to Jones Co. and located in Anamosa, and engaged in his present business ; Mr. Rhodes has been engaged in mercantile business over thirty years ; he has held the office of Postmaster and other town offices ; he owns a good farm and 230 acres finely improved in Wayne Township. He married Miss Rebecca Smith, a native of Akron. Ohio ; they have had eight children, four of whom are living: E. Henry. in California ; John E., in California; Ella, now Mrs. Roach, living in Chicago ; Mary Eidora. at home. Mr. Rhodes has one sister living in Oakland, Cal., and one living in Carson City, and another living in Sacramento ; the latter married Judge Crocker, one of the originators of the Central Pacific Railroad. .
JAMES RIDINGS, farmer, See. 28; P. O. Fairview ; born Oet. 2, 1826, in Surrey Co., N. C .; in 1834. came to Greene Co., Ill. ; in 1851, he came to Jones Co .; owns 240 acres of land. Married Charlotte Sutherland in 1851 ; she was born in British America in February, 1835; have nine children-Isabelle, Jane. Isaac, Thomas. Leroy, Mary, Jessie, Carrie and Bessie E. Enlisted in 1861 in Co. D, 9th I. V. I., and served about fourteen months ; was discharged on account of physical disability. Repub- liean.
M. F. RICK, proprietor of Rick's Brewery, Anamosa; was born in Germany Oct. 5, 1836; when 18 years of age, he emigrated to America in 1854. lived one year in Pennsylvania, and came to Wisconsin, where he lived eight years, and came to Iowa in 1862, and located at Anamosa and engaged in the brewing business, and has carried on the business since then. In 1874, he built his present brewery, which has a capacity of making from fifty to sixty barrels per month. He married Theresa Grosbietch, a native of Germany, in 1857 ; they have four children-Frank, Michael. William and Mary.
L. SCHOONOVER, Cashier of the banking-house of Shaw, Schoonover & Co., Shaw's Block, Anamosa ; is a native of Bradford Co., Penn., and was born Dee. 12, 1828 ; when quite small, his parents removed to Indiana, and he was brought up and lived there and in Illinois until coming to Iowa in 1853; he located in Jones Co., and engaged in farming ; upon the breaking-out of the rebellion, he was the first man from Jones Co. to enlist in the three-year's service. He was in Co. G. Ist I. V. C .. and wis in a number of battles ; he was in the service three and a half years; after his return. in 1865, he was elected Treasurer of Jones Co .. and held that office for eight years ; he, has been a member of the banking-house of Shaw, Schoonover & Co. since its organiza- tion in 1873, and holds the position of Cashier. Mr. Schoonover was a member of the first Board of Supervisors of Jones C'o., and is a member of the present Board. He was united in marriage to Miss Amelia J. Tanner, from Jefferson Co., N. Y., Nov. 5, 1867 ; they have had three children, none of whom are living.
J. P. SCROGGS, feed and sale stable, buying and shipping horses, Ana- mosa ; is a native of Greene Co., Ohio, and was born May 20. 1840; his parents came to Jones Co, Iowa, in the spring of 1849, and located in Anamosa : they were early Settlers. He grew up to manhood here. and learned the trade of carpenter and joiner, and was engaged in building for twelve years, and is now engaged in buying and ship- ping horses East. There are only several here now that were here when he came. He married Miss Eliza Graves, a native of New York State, April 2, 1866 ; they have one son-Charlie P., hoon June 4. 1967.
BENJAMIN F. SHAW, Fish Commissioner for the State of Iowa, Ana- mosa. Benjamin Field Shaw is the son of Rufus Shaw, an architect and builder, and Amy Medbury, and was born in Utica, N. Y., on the 12th of February, 1530. His branch of the Shaw family early settled in New England. Rufus Shaw moved with his family 0
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to New Berlin, Chenango Co., when Benjamin was 2 years old, and the son lived with his grandparents several years. he losing his mother when he was 9 years !! His education was limited to the common schools, though he acquired no inconsiderable amount of knowledge outside the recitation-rooms, and has always been inelined to study. At 17 years of age, he went to Canada, learning the blacksmith's and joiner's trades, returning to the United States at the end of four years, and soon afterward starting wagon-shops at Stillwell Prairie and Kingsbury, Ind., and continuing the business three years. During this period, he acquired a knowledge of the Daguerrean business. and. afterward, traveled awhile in Illinois and Wisconsin, also teaching musie, voeal and band, continuing at intervals for seventeen years. After traveling five years as an artist and musician, he engaged in buying lumber and shipping it down the Wisconsin and Mississippi Rivers. In 1858, Mr. Shaw came to Jones Co., Iowa, and, in October of the next year, settled in Anamosa, which has since been his residence. He was County Superintendent of Schools in 1859 and 1860; became proprietor of the Fisher House in October, 1859, and remained in it between two and three years. About this period, having part ownership in a quarry of superior stone, near the city of Anamosa. and, thinking it would be a feasible point at which to locate a penitentiary, he. with others, began to agitate the question of the location of such an institution at this place. He began to build side-tracks from the Dubuque & Southwestern Railroad. put up a perpetual lime-kiln, and commeneed developing the quarry, and the penitentiary was located here. In 1874, Mr. Shaw was appointed one of the three Fish Commissioners of the State, an office created at the session of the General Assembly, held in January to March of that year, and he still holds that office, be being the sole Commissioner since 1876. It was a fortunate appointment, for no other man in the State of Iowa has taken so much inter- est in fish culture, or done so much to interest the people in the subject. He may be called an enthusiast in the science. he having made it his careful study for years. Mr. Shaw inherited in a large degree the mechanical talent of his father, and has recently invented a fish-way that is of a superior quality. Michigan, which has probably paid more attention to fish culture than any other State in the West, has recently, after examining a dozen inventions of the kind, adopted his, and is introducing it into her streams. Commissioner Shaw was a very useful man in Jones Co. before his services were required by the State in the direction here indicated. He was a member of the School Board of the city of Anamosa. and its President four or five years, and has held other offices in the municipality. He is Master Workman of the Anamosa Lodge of United Workmen. Mr. Shaw has uniformly affiliated with the Democratic party. but of late years has given but little attention to politics. His wife was Miss Olive Burling- ame, of Chenango Co., N. Y. Married on the 12th of May, 1851. They have had four children, three of them yet living.
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