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& Western R. R., and it is largely owing to his efforts and energy that the northern portion of the county now has railroad com- munications; he is also proprietor of the "Western Herald," a jour-
nal that has quite a circulation in both this and adjoining counties; is a man of independent thought, but of a kind and obliging na- ture; a man of the people and one true to the highest principles of honor and morality; as a citizen, quiet and unostentatious, cordial- ly supporting any measure of real public benefit; he started in life without funds or favor with which to pave his pathway to success; he has a sanguine temperament, strong in his prejudices and warm in his friendships; a good conver- sationalist and a gentleman whom one meets only to wish for a more extended and intimate acquaint- ance; we are convinced that to him this township. as well as the northern part of the county, is indebted, and that he deserves his success, his fortune and his friends; he married Miss Maria Thompson, December 4, 1854; she is a native of Morgan county, Indiana; they have four children: Virgil E., Theodore E., Williard W., and Elvina; have lost one daughter: Amazetta; Virgil E. and Theodore E. are associated with their father in business; the latter is married to Miss Alice Knox, a native of this county.
White, Godfrey, farmer, Sec. 8; P. O. White Pigeon.
Wiggins, T. J., farmer, Sec. 6; P. O. White Pigeon.
Wiggins, Edward, farmer, Sec. 24; P. O. South English.
Wiggins, Henry, farmer, Sec. 15; P. O. South English.
Williams, J. A., farmer, White Pigeon.
Wise, H. J., farmer, Sec. 27; P. O. South English.
Wolfe, Jeremiah, South English. Wray, John, P. O. Webster.
WYANT, ABRAHAM, farmer, Sec. 6; P. O. White Pigeon; born in Jefferson county, Ohio,
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January 30, 1812; he was raised in that State; moved to Lawrence county, Illinois, in 1839, and re- mained there two years, and came to Jackson county, Iowa, and in 1849, located where he now lives; he owns 153 acres or choice land; when he came to this county he bought a portable saw-mill to which in 1850 he added a run of of stone; this was the first mill in the township; his princi- pal occupation through life has been farming, in connection with which he has been for some years in the mercantile business; mar- ried Miss Catharine Baringer of Baltimore, February 22, 1838; have five children: Mollie, Luan- da, Permelia, Sarah E. and Corde- delia; lost four: John B., Peter, Lavinda and Ellen.
WYANT. SAMUEL, farmer and merchant, White Pigeon; born in Harrison county, Ohio, March 11, 1808; lived there nntil nine- teen years of age, receiving a fair common school education, and then removed with his parents to Carroll county, where he lived until 1855, then coming to this county and locating where he now resides; has a farm of 220 acres under good cultivation; he has followed farming all his life; in 1872 in connection with farming he entered into the mercantile business, keeping a general store; was married May, 1832, to Miss Eliza J. McCombs, of Ohio; she died in 1858, leaving eight chil- dren, six of whom are now living; James B., Peter J., Abraham, Margaretta, Archibald B. and Samuel; two have died: Isabelle and Bartlett; married again in September, 1859, to Miss Sarah J. Loun, a native of Ohio; have eight children by this union: Ann, Lettie J., Elizabeth, Wil-
liam, Minnie, Bertha, Richard, and Arthur; lost one in infancy. TOAKAM, THOMAS, farmer, Y Sec. 18; P. O. Webster.
YOAKAM, S., farmer, stock-raiser and stock-feeder, P. O. Webster; born in Knox county, Ohio, March 8, 1823; he lived there until he was fourteen years of age, when he with his father moved to Ma- rion county, where the subject of this sketch spent his youth and early manhood; in 1853 he removed to where he
now resides; he owns 400 acres of as choice land as can be found in the county; he has it all fenced with a splendid hedge of some nine miles in length; he also has a very fine residence and some out-houses; he makes stock-raising and feeding his prin- cipal business, which he conducts with admirable judgment, feeding and shipping his stock himself; he has given 360 acres of land to his children; he has never specu- lated but attended to farming, etc., exclusively; October 5, 1852, he married Miss Eliza Scovill, of Ohio; they have four children: Mina (now Mrs. Marion Wheel- er, of this county), Emma (now Mrs. A. Hall, of this county), Marion and Marietta (wife of James Wilhight, of this county; have lost three: Grant, Henry and an infant; Mr. Y. commenced without any help and very little means; he is therefore a self-made man; he is honest above reproach, and independent in thought.
YOUNKIN, U., proprietor of Na- tional Hotel, South English; born in Summerset county, Virginia, November 15, 1828, and was rais- ed there; in 1857 he removed to Henry county, Illinois, and three years after to Muscatine, Iowa; has resided in this State since
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1860 and in this county since 1872; in youth Mr. Y. had good educational advantages which am- ply fitted him for business; he learned the blacksmith's trade at the age of eighteen, and followed it for about twelve years; his fa- ther was a physician and young Younkin studied medicine for a few years, and at the age of thir- ty years began to practice; he continued this for six years
and was obliged to stop on ac- count of disease in a paralytic form; since that time Mr. Youn- kin has been engaged in the hotel business; November 27, 1852, he married Miss Lydia E. Spaugh; she was born in Virginia; they have four sons: Orlando F., Orin F., Winfield S. and Chester; he is a gentleman well adapted to please the public, and is a cour- teous and genial landlord.
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A CKLEY, GEO. W., farmer, Sec. 38; P. O. Sigourney. Ackley, C. S., farmer, Sec. 31; P. O. Sigourney.
ALLEN, DAVID E., farmer, Sec. 4; P. O. Aurora; born in Knox county, Ohio, December 10, 1838; in 1852 he, with his parents, Alva and Martha (Cary) Allen, came to Muscatine county, Iowa; Mr. Allen was proprietor of the West Liberty House when the C., R. I. & P. R. R. was built through that place; the family removed to this county in 1854, where the subject of this sketch spent his youth and early manhood; he owns 132 acres of choice land under splendid cul- tivation, with good improvements; he enlisted in company F, Eighth Iowa Infantry, and served with his regiment until the close of the war; he was discharged October 4, 1865, having participated in the battles of Shiloh, Corinth, the battles on Red River under Banks, besides others, and numerous skirmishes; he was never wound- ed; December 3, 1865, he mar- ried Miss Lucinda Wyant, of this county; she was born in Jackson county; they have six children: Nellie O., Eva B., Elmer H., Lo- rena E., Alva and Katie Belle.
ALKIRE, J. D., farmer, Sec. 28; P. O. Sigourney; born in Ohio
July 31, 1821; whe young he mnoved with his parents to Sanga- mon county, Illinois, where he was raised a farmer; he continued farming in Illinois until 1855, when he came to this county, set- tling where now resides; he owns a finely improved farm of 140 acres; he came to this county in an early day, and knows to some extent what pioneer life is; in August, 1842, he was married to Miss Elvira Meeker; she died June 30, 1864, leaving six child- ren; he was again married Octo- ber 26, 1864, to Mrs. Mary Scott, a native of Indiana; they have eight children: Sarah E., Joseph, Virgil, Harriet I., William J., Leonard R., Alvin M. and Isaac A .; lost: James A., Jane M., and an infant; Mrs. A. has three children by a former marriage: Barclay M. Scott, Avesta F. Scott and E. E. C. Scott; lost two: Ida L. Scott and Ada L. Scott; are members of the Christian Church at White Pigeon, English River township.
AXSMEAR, JOHN, farmer, Sec. 1; P. O. White Pigeon; the subject of this sketch, whose portrait ap- pears in this work, was born in Amsterdam, Holland, on the 30th day of November, 1822; his father and grand-father were ship car-
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penters, and the latter was en- gaged for years in building vessels for Napoleon I; Mr. Axsmear had more than ordinary educa- tional advantages until eighteen years of age; he then entered the army and served four years; dur- ing the time he was wounded in the short war between Belgium and Holland; after leaving the army, he had a mercantile expe- rience of four years in the employ of a noted merchant of Amster- dam; he emigrated to the United States in 1848, and settled in Cumberland, Maryland, and lived there one year, and then removed to West Virginia; until the out- break of the Rebellion he was em- ployed by the construction com- pany of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, and held an important and responsible position; but, owing to the war, the business was suspended; he determined to leave,and had to sacrifice all he had made excepting $735; being a strong Union man, he came to Iowa in 1863 and has lived in Keokuk county since that time; he owns 540 acres of choice land, well improved; Mr. A. has been twice married, first to Miss D. Deline, in 1848; she was born in Amsterdam and died in West Virginia January 31, 1860, leav- ing five children: John, Emily, Jacob C., William and George W .; for his second wife he inar- ried Miss Julia A. Martin, a na- tive of Bavaria; they have one daughter: Melissa, living, and have lost two children: Peter and Almeda.
B AILEY, J. A., farmer, Sec. 2; P. O. White Pigeon; born in London, England, March 21, 1833; when two years of age his parents moved to Seneca county, Ohio, where the subject of this sketch was raised a farmer; he was obliged to take the entire charge
of his home and family, as his father was a cripple, unable to do much, and poor Mr. B. had but a very limited education, but has in later years supplemented what he learned in youth by extensive reading; when seventeen years of age he served as an apprentice to the blacksmith trade, which he fol- lowed for about eight years; he then turned his attention to farm- ing; this he followed in that State (Ohio) until 1865, when he re- moxed to Dodge. county, Wiscon- sin; three years later he removed to Iowa county, and in 1871 to where he now resides; he owns 120 acres of choice land, under splendid cultivation and fair im- provements; on commencing life he had not a dollar with which to start in business, but owing to his energy, good judgment, per- severance and economy, he has gained for himself and family a comfortable home; he married February 14, 1855, Miss Martha P. Ford, a native of Tioga coun- ty, New York; they have eight children: Benjamin H., Walter A., Abby A., William C., Rich- ard S., Mary E., Clinton C. and L. V .; have lost one daughter: Martha P., who died October 26, 1862.
Baldwin, A. D., farmer, Sec. 22; P. O. Sigourney.
Bell, Francis, farmer, Sec. 32; P. O. Sigourney.
Branenburgh, J., farmer, Sec. 34; P. O. Sigourney.
Brakel, C. G., farmer, Sec. 3; P. O. Aurora.
Brady, Hugh, farmer, Sec. 10; P. O. Aurora.
Brown, D. P., farmer, Sec. 25; P. O. Webster.
BURDINE, JOHN F., farmer, Sec.
18; P. O. Keswick; born Septem- ber 22, 1832, in Marion county, Ohio, and was there raised a farm- er; came to Iowa in 1866, locating
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in Keokuk county on the place where he now resides; owns 166 acres of land, nicely cultivated; August 8, 1862, he enlisted in Deleware in company C, Ninety- sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry; was taken prisoner April 8. 1864, at the battle of Mansfield, and taken to Fort Texas, where he re- mained until October 23 of the same year; was then exchanged at the mouth of Red river, and was granted a leave of absence for thirty days; at the expiration of that time he again joined his reg- iment at the mouth of the White river, and was mustered out at Columbus, Ohio, July 29, 1865; April 9, 1854, married Miss Mary Flattery, a native of Ohio, and born November 5, 1835; they have seven children : Charles E., Emily, George H., Irene, Fannie O., Plebe and Warren; lost one: Clarinda; Mr. Burdine has held various offices in his township; they are members of the Metho- dist Protestant Church.
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AMERON, ALLEN, farmer, Sec. 22; of the firm of Cameron & Son, druggists, Keswick; born in Montgomery county, New York, January 3, 1820, and is of Scotch ancestry; the subject of this sketch received the advantages of the common schools in his youtlı, attending them until eigh- teen years of age; having a desire for a more thorough education he entered the Fredonia Academy, in the city of Fredonia, and attended three terms, and in the meantime taught school during the winter, in order to obtain means to pur- sue his studies; after pursuing his academical course he engaged in teaching, and followed it as an avocation for seven years, and has had an experience of thirty terms in teaching; in the autumn of 1841 he removed to Hamilton
county, Ohio; September 5, 1844, married Miss Maria Broadwell, a dangliter of Ira Broadwell, Esq., of thiat county ; by this union they have three children: Ira F., Cath- arine I. (now Mrs. J. Irwin, of this township), and Allen; they lost one daughter: Alberta, August 29, 1863; in 1852 Mr. Cameron came to this county and purchased a claim of Jesse Eller, and after- ward entered the land, and in 1857 he removed on it with his family, and now owns 320 acres of choice land, well improved; has filled most of the offices of the township with credit to himself and to the entire satisfaction of his constituents; has all his life been an earnest and conscientious advocate of educational enter- prises, and has contributed his time, means, and influence in rais- ing the standard of the schools in his locality; has served as secre- tary of the school board since 1858; has never sought political preferment, finding the social en- joyments of a happy home far more congenial to his taste; is a man of strong convictions, and bold and fearless in advocating them; is quiet and unassuming in his habits and manners, an up- right citizen, enjoying the confi- dence of all who know him; Mr. Cameron's success is attributable in no small measure to the sound judgment and wise counsels of his excellent wife-a woman of rare ability, attractiveness, and win- ning manners; in their home love and kindness reign supreme; in thirty-five years of their married life not an unkind word has grated harshly on the ear.
CAMERON, I. K., physician, Keswick; the subject of this sketch is a son of Allen and Ma- ria (Broadwell) Cameron, of this county, and was born
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in Hamilton county, Ohio, June 20, 1847, and came with his parents to this county in 1857; he was brought up on a farm, attend- ing the common schools until he was eighteen years of age; he then entered the Iowa State Uni- versity, of Iowa City, studying there for two years; he taught school for some time, and in 1874 entered the Eclectic Medical Insti- tution of Cincinnati, and gradua- ted from that institution with high honors; in January, 1876, he returned to this county, and entered upon the practice of his profession at Aurora; has been very successful and has an extend- ed practice in both this and ad- joining counties; in connection with his practice he is a member of the firm of Cameron & Son, druggists at Keswick; they have a fine established business and give the most careful atten- tion to all their customers; on the 3d of March, 1870, he was married to Miss Martha Connelly, a native of Delaware county, Ohio; she is a lady of high at- tainments and grace and rare musical talents; they have one daughter: Mabel.
CHURCHILL, A. W., farmer and wool-grower, Sec. 16; P. O. Kes- wick; born in Morrow county, Ohio, February 18, 1837; his early life was that of a farmer, and he was educated in this and the stock-raising business; he came to Iowa in 1864, and se- lected his farm with an especial view to sheep-raising ; he owns 1,700 acres of improved land, his home farın containing 1,300 acres; he has at the present time 2,200 head of sheep, and makes a spec- ialty of fine Cotswold and mutton sheep; he clipped about 9,000 pounds of wool during the past season; his stock is in a very healthy condition, and he consid-
ers his location one of the best adapted for the business in the county ; his brother, C. P. Churc- hill, was associated with him in business until 1874, when he died leaving a wife and son: Willie R. surviving; Mrs. Churchill is now Mrs. J. A. Sanders, of Poweshiek county; the subject of this sketch was married January 30, 1866, to Miss Dulana F. Connelly ; she was born in Delaware county, Ohio, August 14, 1844; she remained there with her parents until her marriage; they have three chil- dren: Frank O., born April 18, 1869, Charles N., born June 14, 1875, George S, born March 22, 1879.
Cochran, Ephraim, farmer, Sec. 24; P. O. Webster.
Conley John, farmer, Sec. 8; P. O. Aurora.
Cover, Thomas, farmer, Sec. 10; P. O. Aurora.
Craven, S. J., farmer, Sec. 21; P. O. Sigourney.
Cress, Jeremiah, farmer, Sec. 24; P. O. Webster.
Cross, Wm. farmer, Sec. 27; P. O. Sigourney.
Cuddihey. S. and J., farmers, Sec 36; P. O. Webster.
D AUGHERTY, MOSES, farm- er, Sec. 22; P. O. Webster. DUNNE, JOHN, farmer, Sec. 24; P. O. Webster; born in Ire. land, June 24, 1817, where he was raised; he had only the ad- vantages of the night schools, but he has acquired a no mean knowl- edge by reading whenever he had an opportunity ; in 1844 he em- igrated to this country, and set- tled in Washington county, Wis- consin; lived there until 1876, when he came this country,settling where he now resides ; owns 160 acres of choice land, and under good improvement; on arrival in this country his cash capital con- sisted of one five franc-piece, and
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upon this small beginning he has, by honest industry, economy, hard work and wonderful energy, surrounded himself and family with a good home where hospital- ities abound; in November 1855 he married Miss Mary Fitzgerald, born in Ireland, but raised in Wisconsin; they have eight chil- dren: John, Mary Ann, James, Elizabeth, Margaret, C., Katie and Hannah; lost one son: Char- lie.
F ANCHER, AMOS, farmer, Sec. 2; P. O. White Pigeon. Fancher, Wm. N., farmer, Sec. 2; P. O. White Pigeon.
Finch, Samuel, farmer, Sec. 1; P. O. White Pigeon.
G REEN,G.W., farmer, and stock- dealer, Sec.3; P. O. Keswick; born in Watertown, Oneida coun- ty, New York, February 22, 1833; his parents moved to Portage conn- ty, Ohio, in 1837, and to Geauga county one year later; there the subject of this sketch was raised on a farm, and like most of farm- er boys attended school winters and farmed during the summers; in 1867 he removed to this coun- ty, where he now resides; owns 300 acres of choice land, under excellent improvement, his resi- dence being the best in the town- ship; the grounds surrounding his homestead are beautifully embellished with shade trees, evergreens, etc .; he also has a fine orchard of five hundred apple- trees; Mr. G. has made farming and stock-dealing his principal business, and has displayed a great deal of
taste; in manners he is conservative, but courteous and hospitable, a man whom to know is to esteem, just in his dealing and irreproachable in his character; March 8, 1856, he married Miss Louetta Crafts, a · native of Portage county; they
have four children: Eva, Etta, Willie and Frankie.
GREEN, ASAHEL, retired me- chanic and farmer, Sec. 3; P. O. Keswick; born in Otisfield, Maine, October 9, 1802; his fath- er was picked up on the sea shore near Boston after a shipwreck, and was adopted by a family named John Green; the subject of this sketch was taken by his- parents to Oneida county, New York, where he was raised on a. farm, farming in summer, and winter his time was occupied in in making half-bushel el measures; he early de- veloped a mechanical genius and afterward gave a great deal of attention to inventions; he can . be accredited with making the first cheese-box in Ohio about 1840, and invented the first buzz- saw for cutting heading, also in- vented a patent for curling hair for mattresses, and more recently has invented a fence-wire tighten- er, that promises to be very pop- ular, and the best inachine of the kind yet invented; in 1867 Mr. Green moved to this county and settled where he now lives; he was married December 25, 1826, to Miss Mary Everet, a native of Connecticut; their family consists of four children: Mary, (now Mrs. S. McKee), Susan, (now Mrs. J. Hawkins, of Cleveland, Ohio), Geo. W., a prominent stock-dealer of Keokuk county, and Jane, (now Mrs. Mowan, of Cleveland); they have lost one in- fant son.
Gibson, Alex., farmer, Sec. 6; P. O.
Gilbraith, John, farmer, Sec. 6; P. O. Webster.
Goodnough, Mrs. E. E., farmer, Sec. 7; P. O.
HA
ALL, A., farmer, Sec. 26; P. O. Webster.
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HALLETT, SOLOMON, farmer, Sec. -; P. O. Webster; is the son of Isaiah Hallett and Anna nee Kimball, and was born in Water- ville, Kennebeck county, Maine, on the 2d day of March, 1812; his parents were both of English origin; their ancestors came to this country before the revolu- tionary war; his father enlisted in the war of 1812; when the subject of this sketch was six years old his parents removed to Marietta, Washington county, Ohio; here his early boyhood was spent in agricultural pursuits with limited school advantages: after the death of his father in 1823, he lived in the family of a Mr. Stone, and lived with him until his death about 1830; he then started in the world for himself, his worldly effects being $1.18 in money, a few school books and a Bible, and was employed on a keel boat running down the Missis- sippi river, and continued this business principally until 1834, and then purchased a farm; in 1853 he sold his farm and came to Iowa, and purchased a large tract of land, and remained there fourteen years; he then went to Missouri and remained a short time, and came to Keokuk county, and purchased 310 acres of land; he married Miss Sarah A. Parker in 1835; she was a native of Pennsylvania.
Harding, J. H., farmer, Sec. 7; P. O. Aurora.
Harding, O. C., farmer, Sec. 7; P. O. Aurora.
Hartzel, John, farmer, Sec. 34; P. O. Sigourney.
HARMONSON, OBED, farmer, Sec. 28; P. O. Sigourney; born in this county June 25, 1851; was raised a farmer, which occupa- tion he still follows; he moved where he now resides in 1862, and has sixty acres of good land;
January 25, 1872, he married Miss Lucretia Goodrich; she was born October 12, 1850, in Ottawa county, Michigan; she moved to this county with her parents in 1862; Mr. Harmonson's parents are also residents of this county; they have two children: Walter H., and Clara G .; lost one: Wil- liam M .: Mr. and Mrs, H. are members of the Christian Church at What Cheer, Washington town- ship.
Hazlett, J. C. farmer, Sec. 12; P. O. White Pigeon.
HARTZELL, JOHN, farmer, Sec. 34; P.O.Sigourney ; born in Marion county, Indiana, September 21, 1836; he came with his parents to Iowa in 1849, and settled in Van Buren county; after remaining there for about two years he came to this county locating in this township; here he spent his early manhood on a farm; he moved upon his present farm of 160 acres in 1874; he was married November 27, 1855, to Miss Har- riet M. Ronalds, a native of Lick- ing county, Ohio; she was born October 9, 1836; she came to Iowa in 1851, and settled in this county; their family consists of nine children: S. R., Philip B., Ira S., Mary E., Netty M., Char- lie B., Thomas A., John R. and Clarence.
HARDING, J. H., farmer, Sec. 7; P. O. Sigourney; born January 8, 1821, in Richland county, Ohio; he was there raised, following the occupation of a farmer, which he has since adhered to; he remained in Ohio until 1862, when he came to this county and located where he now resides in 1865; he owns 320 acres of well improved land, well stocked with graded cattle; in 1857 he engaged in the mer- cantile business and followed that for five years, and then engaged in farming; he was married May
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£ 7, 1842, to Miss Emily A. Flint, a native of Richland county, Ohio; slie was born June 20, 1823; their family consists of four children : Odelpha H. (now Mrs. R. Davis), Curtis O., Rosella R. (now Mrs. F. M. Brown-Mr. Brown died July 26, 1878, when living in Kansas), and William E .; Mr. H. has held various offices of trust in his township, and is at present holding one; they are active mem- bers of the Baptist Church at Prairie View, Prairie township.
HERVEY, DAVID A., farmer, Sec. 1; P. O. White Pigeon; born in Washington county, Penn., Jan- uary 21, 1814, but raised in Jef- ferson county, Ohio; he lost his mother when ten years of age and he was left under the care of his aunt for some time; when seven- teen years of age he was entered as an apprentice to learn the sad- dlery trade; he followed that for about twelve years, but was oblig- ed to discontinue it on account of ill health; he then engaged in farming and has since followed it; in 1852 he removed to Washing- ton county, Iowa, and lived there until March, 1854, when lie came to this county and settled where he now resides; owns 120 acres of choice land under good im- provement; he married May 12, 1836, Miss Margaret M. Christy, a native of Harrison county, Ohio; they have seven children: John R., Sarah J. (now wife of H. L. Barber. of this county), Wmn. H. H., Samuel C., Nancy E., David L. and Joshua W.
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