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Beard, Eliza, farmer, Sec. 17. Belcher & Stranahan, beer saloon. BELCHER, WM., billiard saloon; born in Steuben county, New York, in 1844, and was raised there a farmer; came to this county in 1867 and engaged in farming, and soon turned his at- tention to railroad building, and has been engaged on the B. & M. road, Burlington & Cedar Rapids, Chicago, R. I. & P., Muscatine & Western, St. Louis & Kansas City, and the C. B. & Q .; his lat- est work was building the bridge across the river at Plattsmouth; he was married to Miss Amanda Moore in 1867; she was born in Ohio; they have four children: David, Sidney, Samuel and Harry; Mr. Belcher enlisted in the Eighty- sixth New York Infantry in the late war, and served two years, and was then transferred to the Fourth New York Heavy Artil- lery, and served two years and four months; his service was in the Army of the Potomac.
Bensmiller, Peter, farmer, Sec. 7. BENTON, THOMAS H. M., bar- ber; born in Morgan county, Mis- souri in 1847, and lived there un- til 1861, and then went to Kansas; from here to Monmouth, Illinois, where he resided some time, and then came to Iowa, and settled in Washington county, and came to this county February 27, 1871. Berry, I .. A., horse dealer.
BIRTSCH. PHILIP, billiard sa- loon; born in Germany in 1853, and came to the United States in 1869, and settled in Pekin, Illi- nois, and came to this county in 1871; in 1874 he went to Colora- do, New Mexico, and Utah, re- turning in 1875; he married Miss P. Huodeck in 1879; she was born in Germany, and came to this country when young, and was raised principally in Washington county.
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BIRTSCH, JACOB, meat market; born in Germany in 1833, and rais- ed there until fifteen years of age; in 1848 he emigrated to America, and landed in Baltimore, and in 1851 went to Washington, D. C., and lived there until 1854; he came to Davenport in 1855, and to this county in 1869; he married Miss Catharine B. Jacobs in 1857; she was born in Germany; they have four children: Anna and Mary, twins, Jacob M. and George; lost five sons and two daughters.
Black, Joseph, farmer, Sec. 35.
BOEGEL, H. H., dealer in general merchandise; born in Waynes- burg, Stark county, Ohio, June 1, 1822; he was raised there, and learned the trade of tailor, and followed the occupation in that state until April, 1855, when he came to this county; he owns a farm of forty acres. He was a member of the first city council; he enlisted in the Thirty-third Iowa Infantry, Co. B., and served three years; he married Elizabeth Mang in 1853; she was born in Jefferson county, Ohio; they have five children : Florence, Inez, Wil- liam Charles and Ralph.
Boaton, S. W., retired farmer. Bracken, R. F., merchant.
BROLLIAR, J. C., deputy sheriff; born in Richland township, Keo- kuk county, April 12, 1846, and was raised on a farm, and has di- vided his time between teaching and farming; he has held the of- fice of justice of the peace and other township offices previous to his appointment as deputy sher- iff; he married Miss Sarah Cox, February 28, 1872; she was born in this county; they have two children : Gill B. and Olga. Brown, Grantson, farmer, Sec. 35. BROWN, C. M., attorney, of the firm of Sampson & Brown; born in Knox county, Ohio, November
7, 1845; his early life was that of a farmer, but he had the advan- tage of the common schools and the high schools of the place, and entered the preparatory depart- ment of Kenyon College, Ohio; he came to this State in 1868, and settled in Muscatine county; he read law in the office of the Hon. Thomas Hanna, and was admitted to the bar in 1870, and graduated from the law department of the Iowa State University, in 1871, and July 6, the same year, he came to this county, and engaged in the practice of his profession, and has made it his home since that time; June 18, 1874, he mar- ried Miss Flora Sampson, a daugh- ter of the Hon. E. S. Sampson, his law partner; the fruits of this union are two children: Eunice Anna and Roy Chase.
BROWN A. G., farmer and stock raiser; born in Virginia, in Octo- ber, 1823, and lived there until 1833, and then removed to Greene county, Ohio, and remained there until 1855, when he emigrated to Iowa, and settled in Sigourney, and engaged in banking and mer- cantile pursuits, and in this was very successful; he gradually bought up a large tract of land near the city, and now owns 1,140 acres of choice land; he closed out his mercantile business, and lias since devoted his time to raising stock, and his returns from this, as well as other investments, have been attended with satisfac- tory results; he has always taken great interest in educational mat- ters, and has been on the school board a large portion of the time; he is one of the directors of the First National Bank, and one of the largest taxpayers of Keokuk county; he married Miss Ettie Yerger in 1862; she was a native of Pennsylvania; they have two children: Harry B. and Stock.
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Bowen, James, Sigourney.
BRUNT. J. M., born in Madison county, Indiana, in 1837; when ten years of age his parents remov- ed to Keokuk county and settled in Lancaster township; he was raised a farmer; he enlisted in the Thirty-third Iowa Infantry, Au- gust 13, 1862, and served three years; he was in various engage- ments, and was wounded at Hel- ena, Arkansas; he has served the county four years as clerk of the courts, and one term as treasurer; he married Miss Mary A. Davis in 1859; she was born in Morgan county, Indiana; they have seven children: Viola M., Samuel, Ly- dia M., Isaac, Homer, John, and Ralph W.
Buck, Dudley, farmer, Sigourney.
Burkholder, Geo., farmer, Sec. 2.
Byrne, N. P., farmer, Sec. 35.
Butler, M. H., grocer.
C ATTELL, J. B., dealer in gen- eral merchandise; is a son of Samuel G. Cattell, and Elizabeth, nee Hair; born in Ohio; his father was a native of New Jersey, and his mother of Pennsylvania; when young his parents removed ยท to Indiana, where the boyhood of the subject of this sketch was spent as a farmer boy ; in 1857 his parents removed to this county, where he remained engaged in agricultural pursuits until he en- listed in the Thirty-third Iowa Infantry, and served three years; in 1867 his father engaged in mercantile pursuits, and became the successor of Brown & Yerger, in what was known as the New York Store; the house is one of the prominent ones of the city, and commands a full share of public patronage; he married Miss Eliza Loffer in 1867; she was born in Ohio; they have two children: Willie and Rettie.
Cattell & Co., merchants.
Cissna & Selby, merchants. Cissna, G. W., merchant. Cissna, J. B., carpenter.
CLARK, J. T., stock-raiser and stock dealer; was born in New Hampshire in 1823, and moved to Ohio when young, and remained there until 1844, and then settled in Indiana, and lived there four years, coming to this county in 1850; for eight years he was en- gaged in the hotel business, and it was at his house that John Brown and James Lane of Kansas fame, had their first meeting; of late he has devoted his time to the stock business; he owns about 500 acres of land; he has been twice mar- ried, first to Miss Nancy Richards, in 1850; she was born in Ohio, and died in March, 1873; he married for his second wife Margaret Marks; their family consists of seven children: Mary (now Mrs. Shean), Kate, Charlie, Ella, Jen- nie, Nettie and George.
Clark, C. C., stock dealer.
Clubb, James, stock dealer. Cook, G. B., retired.
COOK, S. D., M. D., physician and surgeon; was born in Knox coun- ty, Ohio, in 1832, and was raised in Knox and Delaware counties; he received a common school edu- cation, which was supplemented by attendence at the Wesleyan University at Mount Pleasant; he commenced the study of medicine in 1851, and was educated at the Starling Medical College at Co- lumbus, Ohio, and the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Keo- kuk, Iowa; in 1855 he came to Henry county, and engaged in the practice of his profession, and has been in constant practice since that time, excepting a short time he commanded a Company in the Thirtieth Iowa Infantry, previous to his being promoted to the Medical Staff of the Eighth
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Iowa Infantry; he was in the ser- vice three years; has pursued his chosen calling with untiring zeal and energy; he started on his professional career with a laudable ambition to succeed, and has not been disappointed; Dr. Cook is a man of acknowledged ability as a physician, and his services are recognized by a host of apprecia- ting friends, and his kind and sympathetic nature makes him a welcome visitor in the sick room; he is known all over the county, and the respect shown him is as wide as his acquaintance: he is very kind to the poor and has rid- den hundreds of miles to adminis- ter to their necessities without ex- pectation of any compensation; he married Miss Jennie Moore in 1865; she was born in Henry county, Iowa; their family con- sists of five children: Ida E., Lulu, Homer, Roscoe and Minnie.
Corbin, S. L., salesman. Cowell, John, farmer, Sec. 18.
Covey, A., foundry.
Coy, John, farmer, Sec. 36.
Croneweth, J. W., grocer.
Croneweth, P., painter.
Crouse, N., farmer, Sec. 6.
Crouse, John, farmer, Sec. 5.
CUNNINGHAM, T. C., dealer in hardware, agricultural implements and farm machinery; was born in Franklin county, Indiana, in 1842, where he was educated and raised in mercantile pursuits; he came to this State in 1868, and settled in Washington county, and in 1872 came to Sigourney and en- gaged in his present business; du- ring the war he enlisted in the 11th Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and was discharged on account of disability; he afterwards re-en- listed, and was appointed quar- termaster sergeant of the 134th Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and a considerable portion of the time
was the acting quartermaster of the regiment; he married Miss Emma M. Pickett in 1878; she was born in Ohio; they have one daughter: Charlotte V.
D' ANA, G. B., farmer, Sec. 1; P. O. Sigourney.
Darner, P. J., farmer, Sec. 11; P. O. Sigourney.
DAUT, GEORGE, bakery, lunch and refreshment house; born in Germany in 1827, and was en- gaged in mercantile pursuits and learned the trade of baker; he came to the United States in 1848; after a residence in various places he visited Australia, Alaska, Cali- fornia, Caraboo, Mexico and South America; when he concluded to return to the United States he was without money and worked his passage on board a steamer, and arriving in New York he bor- rowed $75 and returned to Ger- many, and came back in 1866, bringing with him $25,000 in gold and U. S. bonds; he in- vested largely in real estate in Sigourney and has made valuable improvements; he married Miss Mary T. Mitchell in 1866; she was born in Germany; their fam- ily consists of five children: Pe- ter, Katie, Rosa, Lizzie and Wil- lie; they lost one son: George. Dern, W., grocer.
Detchon, F. R.
Disney, J. B., harness-maker.
Dobie, G. W.
Donnell, R. L., attorney.
DONNELL, JOHN A., attorney and counselor at law, was born in Decatur county, Indiana, in 1838; when sixteen years old he came to Iowa; he was educated at Washington College, and grad- uated in 1861; about the time of graduation, and a short time be- fore, in conversation with the judge of the District Court, and a num- ber of lawyers, about the war of
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Rebellion which had begun shortly previons, he stated his determina- tion to enlist as a volunteer, which he did shortly afterward in a com- pany which afterward became a part of the first cavalry; entering the service, he was promoted from one rank to another till he finally became adjutant of the regiment. which office he held at the time he resigned to accept the office of county clerk, to which he had just been elected; after serving acceptably in this office till the expiration of the term, he began the study of law under the in- struction of G. D. Woodin; he was admitted to the bar in 1867, and the success which has at- tended him in the practice of his profession has been most extraor- dinary; there are few men of Mr. Donnell's age and experience to whom has been committed the management of such important cases; the skill and ability which characterized his management of the " White murder case" became a matter of common report in this and adjoining counties; be- sides being a close student in mat- ters pertaining to his profession, Mr. Donnell gives a portion of his time to literary pursuits, and to him more than to any other one belongs the credit of main- taining one of the most interest- ing and successful literary socie- ties in the State; Mr. Donnell is yet a comparatively young man, and has a long career of useful- ness in store for him; in 1867 he married Miss Sue C. Hogin, daughter of Hon. J. C. Hogin; his family consists of five child- ren: Una Z., Willie W., Birney, Orrella M., and an infant.
Downing, T., laborer.
Durland, A. F., coal dealer. Dwyer, E., tailor.
Dwyer, James, farmer, Sec. 35;
E ASTBURN, WILLIAM, farmer, Sec. 5.
ECKLEY. T. R., grain dealer; born in Ohio in 1831 and lived there until 17 years of age, and then came to this State in 1848; he learned the trade of blacksmith and wagon-maker and followed it as an occupation for many years; he spent two years in Van Buren county, and came to Lancaster, Keokuk county, in 1855; he owns 520 acres of land and his home is one of the choicest locations of the county; he held the office of post- master in Lancaster for sixteen years; he married Miss Honora D. Hart in 1852; she was born in Washington county, Ohio, Sept. 29, 1829; by this union they have five children living: William T., Abraham L., Romaine, Mary and Maggie; Mrs. Eckely died Oct. 5, 1879, and we copy the following from the Sigourney News in a no- tice of her death : "She was a woman of retiring nature; had to be known to know her true worth; she had a strong desire for knowl- edge; she was a graduate of the Ladies' Seminary at Harmar, Ohio; to the last, her intellect was kept polished by study; granted a home, she neglected it not; blessed with children, for them she cared; a faithful wife and true mother, yet the ambition of her life was to educate her children; nothing prevented her fromn lead- ing them into the sphere of knowl- edge; while in this sphere with them the morning came to her a brighter day ; years ago she united with the Presbyterian church; clouds of doubt at times flitted across her sky of faith; those getting nearest to her Christ- ian life should not her doubt; they caught the gleams that shone from a bright inner life-gleams that shone upon the path along
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which her spirit quietly ascended into a world of cloudless faith and higher knowledge."
ECKLEY, P. L. , dealer in grocer- ies and provisions; born in Ohio in 1824, and raised there a farmer; in 1848 he emigrated to Jefferson county, Iowa, and came to this county in 1852, and in 1856 he came to Sigourney; during the late war he enlisted as a private in the Eighth Iowa Infantry, and af- ter serving three and one-half years was mustered out as second lieutenant; he engaged in his present business in 1869; has held the office of town trustee; he mar- ried Miss Mary Martin in 1849; she was born in Ohio and died in January, 1871, leaving two daugh- ters: Elcina (now Mrs. Corbin), and Ella; he married for his sec- ond wife Mrs. Isabella Mckibben, in May, 1879; she was a native of Gloucester county, New Jersey, and was previously married, in 1851, to Robert Mckibben, a na- tive of Scotland, who died October 8th, 1865, leaving three sons: Robert, James and Joseph. Ellis, E., restaurant.
F ARRA, J. R., proprietor of the Paragon Job Printing Office; born in Shenandoah county, Vir- ginia, in 1837, and lived there un- til eighteen years of age; he learn- ed the printer's trade in the offices of the "Stanton Messenger " and "True American "; he came to Iowa in 1857 and settled in Sig- ourney, and in 1858 established the " Iowa Democrat," in connec- tion with S. B. Evans, now of Ot- tumwa, and continued it until the outbreak of the war, when he en- listed in Co. D, Thirteenth Iowa Infantry during the late war, and was captured at Holly Springs in December, 1862, and paroled in April, 1863; he was discharged on account of disability; he returned to Sigourney and bought out the
" Sigourney News," which he af- terwards sold out and established the " Review," in connection with A. J. Kenney, and sold out in 1873; he then bought an interest in the " News" with J. W. Hav- ens, and sold out in 1876 and went to California and had charge of the " California Daily and Weekly Star," Los Angelos, for six months; he married Miss Margaret A. Ad- ams, in 1858; she was born in Washington county, Iowa, and was the first white child born in Washington county, Iowa. Fair, S. C., marble dealer.
FERGUSON, J. M., saddler and harness-maker; born in Ohio, in 1825, and learned the trade of harness making; he moved to Washington county, Iowa, in 1853, and lived there nine years, and came to this county in 1862, and has been in this business continu- ously longer than any man in the county in the same line; he is a member of the Masonic fraternity and the A. O. U. Workmen; he married Miss. Laura M. Coleman, in 1855; she was born in Knox county, Ohio; they have one son: Charles W .; lost one daughter: Ella M.
Fear, J. H., farmer, Sec. 5.
Fidler, D. L., merchant.
Fisher, J., Merchant.
FONDA, S. L., attorney; born in
Saratoga county, New York, No- vember 26, 1848, and raised there and received an academical educa- tion, and, having a preference for the law profession, entered the office of W. T. Odell, in Ballston Spay, and prepared himself for admission to the bar, which occur- red at Schenectady, in April, 1869; September 29th, the same year, he came to Iowa and engaged in his chosen avocation; he is associated with Hon. S. Harned in business, and holds the office of mayor of the city; he married Miss Mattie
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E. Harned in December, 1871; she was born in this county and died March 23d, 1877, leaving one daughter: Ella B., born February 14th, 1873; lost two children: Seward L. and Staats S.
FRANKEN, B., druggist, of the firm of Cook & Franken; born in Siegburg, Prussia, in 1833, and was raised there; he came to the United States in 1852 and settled in New York, and afterward re- moved to Illinois and thence to this State, in 1856; he has held various township offices; he mar- ried Miss L. Schirmer in 1860; she was a native of Bavaria; they have two children: James L. and Edwin; he has been connected with Dr. Cook in the general drug business for ten years.
FREY, REV. J .; born in Knox county, Ohio, in 1827, and was raised there; in his youth he re- ceived the benefits of the common schools and supplemented his edu- cation by attendance at the Gran- ville College, near Newark, Ohio; after preparing for the ministry, he was ordained in Muskingum county, Ohio, in 1851, and his first pastorate was at Tomaka, Coshocton county, Ohio, and this relation existed until 1856, when, owing to his wife's impaired health, he came to Iowa and made Sigourney his home in 1857; and of the eleven congregations of the Baptist denomination in existence in the county at the present time, all but three have organized since he came to the county, and for years he was the only Baptist cler- gyman in the county, and these are largely the outgrowth of his labors; he has served as pastor of the Baptist Churches in Sigour- ney, South English and Keota, Talleyrand, Fairview, Ioka and Rock Creek; he married Miss Louisa Arnold, of Licking coun- ty, Ohio, August 8th, 1851, she
being a daughter of Hon. John H. Arnold, of that county; they have five children: Roger W. (now liv- ing in Livingston county, Illi- nois), Charles E., Sarah P., Samu- el H. and Mary E .; have lost three: Judson C., James N. and Frank A .; Mr. Frey was elected superintendent of schools for Keokuk county in 1861 and 1862. FRITZ, F., saloon keeper, and of the firm of F. Fritz & Sons, cigar manufacturers; born in Bavaria in 1833, and lived there until 1853, when he came to the United States and enlisted in the regular army and served five years, and in 1859 came to Sigourney and learned the cooper's trade; he married Miss Louisa Kleitz, in 1856; she was born in Alsace, Germany; they have six children : Edward, George, Josephine, Nellie, Louisa and Emma.
FUNK, L.A., miller; born in Ohio in 1845, and in 1846 his parents removed to Van Buren county, Iowa, and remained there until he was eight years of age and then changed their residence to Davis county, this State, and came to this county in 1862; he has grown up in his present busi- ness from boyhood, and can well be termed a practical miller; he built his present mills, known as the Garden City Mills, in 1877; it has four run of burrs and fitted with all the improved machinery; the demand for his flour and the high repute in which it is held speaks creditably for the manufac- tor; he married Miss Mary P. Davis in May, 1868; she was born in Indiana ; lost one son : Claude. Y ASTON, WM. J., attorney; G born in McDonough coun- ty, Illinois, in 1842, and in 1844 1 his parents removed to Keokuk, Iowa, where the sub- ject of this sketch was educat- ed and raised with a mer-
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cantile experience, in which busi- ness he has been engaged since at- taining a proper age, until a short time since; he owns, beside city property, eighty-seven acres of land in Lancaster township; he enlisted in the Thirty-third Iowa Volunteers during the late war, and after serving about eighteen months was discharged at Little Rock, Arkansas, on account of im- paired health; he married Miss C. A. Bottorff, in 1864; she was born in Indiana and died in 1867; he married for his second wife Miss M. McRunnells, in 1872; she was born in Jefferson county, Iowa; has one child by first mar- riage: John J .; and lost one daugli- ter: Cynthia.
Gann, L. O., Sec 35. Gann, A., Sec. 35.
GOLDTHWAIT, C. J., boot and shoe dealer; born in Waterville, Somerset county, Maine, in 1833, and was raised a farmer the early part of his life, and afterward learned the trade of shoe making; he came to this county in 1855, and has been engaged in the shoe business since that time; during the late war he enlisted in the Thirty-third Iowa Infantry and served three years; he was wound- ed at Saline river; he married Miss Fidelia E. Lyon, in March, 1858; she was born in Pennsylva- nia, and died in August, 1875; he married for his second wife Mary Shawhan, in 1876; she was born in Indiana; their family consists of one daughter: Mary, by first marriage; and two sons: John and George, by second marriage.
GORTNER, H. D., attorney; born in Green county, Ohio, in 1847, and was brought by his parents to Washington county in 1850, and from this place removed to Iowa county; he was raised a farmer, and at the age of seventeen com- menced teaching school and taught
eleven years; at the same time he commenced reading law and at- tended the law department of the State University, and was admit- ted to the bar in June, 1877; he married Miss Mary C. Boltz, in 1869; she was born in Ohio; they have one son: Perry S., aged. five years.
H AUGHENBERRY, J. T., la- borer.
HAIR, DR. J. H., physician and surgeon; was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, in 1830, and while young his parents removed to Ohio, where the subject of this sketch was raised on a farm, and having made choice of the medi- cal profession, he prepared him- self to enter the Western Reserve Medical College, and graduated from that institution in 1857; af- ter practicing a few years, he was appointed surgeon of the Thirty- third Ohio Infantry, in which ca- pacity he served faithfully and ac- ceptably; he came to this county in 1866, and established himself in the practice of his profession and in the drug trade, in connec- tion with the late Dr. Parks; he married Miss Mary Gaston in 1854; she was born in Ohio; they have five children : W. Maud, Liz- zie, Mary, L. Roy and Walter.
HANKINS, W. H., of the firm of Johnson & Hankins, abstracters and loan agents; was born in Trumbull county, Ohio, February 13, 1852, and was raised there un- til sixteen years of age, and came to this county in 1869; he re- ceived an academical education, and has been engaged in his pres- ent business since 1877; he mar- ried Miss Ella M. Randall, No- vember 19, 1873; she was born in Keokuk county, her father, W. W. Randall, being one of the old- er settlers of the county; they have one son: Homer H .; and one daughter: Grace G.
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HANSON, J. W., farmer, Sec. 9; P. O. Sigourney; was born in Park county, Indiana, in 1827, where he was raised a farmer; he came to this county in 1853, and settled where he now resides; he owns 270 acres of land, and has made all the improvements since he came here; he has done con- siderable civil engineering since coming to the county; he is the author of the first Greenback plat- form in the State of Iowa, and ran for Congress on the Greenback ticket in 1870, on the same plat- form on which Gen. Weaver was elected in 1878; he married Miss D. Horner, June 3, 1849; she was a native of Ohio; they have five children: Mary E. (now Mrs. John A. Benson, of California), Solon A., civil engineer, Alpheus P., Della (now Mrs. L. D. Bond), and Monta.
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