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HERBIG, P. C., manufacturer of buggies and fine carriages, Oska- loosa; born in Bavaria, Germany, December 25,1808; he was brought up, and learned his trade there; emigrated to America in 1839, liv- ed in South Carolina and North Carolina; then went to Philadel- phia Pa., for a year and a half; then removed to Ohio, and lived there thirteen years, and in Spring- field Illinois one year, and came to Oskaloosa February 23, 1855, and engaged in working at his trade, and was the first one that could make a buggy in this coun- ty, and is the oldest carriage mak- er here, has been engaged in bus- iness here over twenty-three years. Married Takobina Gotthold, from Germany in 1836. They have seven children and have lost eight
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children. Mr. Herbig is the old- est German settler in this county, with one or two exceptions.
Hetherington, C., retired. Hewett, Levi, patent right agent. Higlin, John F., teamster.
Hickey, Allen, minister.
Himes, Jacob, miller.
HINESLEY, J. W., justice of the peace, Oskaloosa; born in Indian- apolis, Marion county Ind., March 19, 1832. When fourteen years of age removed to Hamilton coun- ty, Ohio, and served apprentice- ship as blacksmith; returned to Indianapolis and married Miss Sarah E. McWhorton, a native of Ind., January 3, 1854; she died the following year, 1855, leaving one son, George W. He came to Iowa in 1855, and located at In- dianapolis in this county, and worked at his trade. He again married Hannah J. Atwood, April 23, 1856; on the 4th of July 1860, he met with a severe accident; he and some of his friends prepared for a celebration, and procured what is known as a mandrel, and by drilling a hole converted it into a cannon. He was ramming in the charge when it exploded and shattered his arm to pieces; after losing his arm he served as constable and assessor of Monroe township; in 1863 he was elected sheriff of the county-soon after this he moved to Oskaloosa -he held that office for ten years; in the late October elections he was elected justice of the peace of Oskaloosa township. They have two children, William F. and Ida M .; lost two daughters.
HOFFMAN, JOHN A., attorney at law, Oskaloosa; born in Jackson county, Ohio, April 23, 1851; when five years of age removed to Ohio with his parents, and lived there five years, then came with his parents to Oskaloosa, in Octo- ber, 1861; after attending school
here he entered the Iowa Wes- leyan University at Mt. Pleasant; he studied law here, and was ad- mitted to the bar in 1874, and since then has practiced his pro- fession here; he has served as chairman of the Mahaska County Rep. Cent. Committee; married Miss Anna Wallace, of Mt. Pleas- ant, Iowa, December 15, 1875; they have one son, Wallace.
HOFFMAN, D. A., physician and surgeon, Oskaloosa; born in Jack- son, Jackson county, Ohio, Sep- tember 28, 1824; he received his education there, and studied med- icine at Athens, and attended the Ohio Medical College, and after- ward attended and graduated at the Cleveland College, in Febru- ary, 1848; he practiced his pro- fession in Ohio until 1861, when he came to Iowa and located in Oskaloosa, and since then has practiced his profession here; mar- ried Miss Emily Smith, from Hocking county, Ohio, in Novem- ber, 1848; they have four chil- dren, Edgar B., John A., Effie L., Ripley C.
Holt, Robert, laborer.
HIolt, Oliver, butcher.
Holt, Susan.
HOLE, LEONARD H., attorney, Oskaloosa; born in Carroll county, Ohio, June 23, 1845; he was brought up and received his edu- cation there; graduated at Mount Union College, class 1867; he was, for two years during the war, un- der General O. O. Howard, in the Freedmen's department; he stud- ied law in Southern Illinois, and attended the Law University at Iowa City; he came to Oskaloosa in 1870, and since then has prac- ticed his profession here; he is chairman of the Mahaska County Rep. Cent. Committee, and has been in one city council; married Miss Belle Maffit, from Harrison county, Ohio, July 14, 1870; they
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have three children, J. Wilber, Homer, little boy not named.
Holmes, A. J., salesman.
Holmes, J. H., salesman with Mitch. Wilson.
Holmes, Hannalı. Holdsieder, Jo., shoemaker.
Hoover, W. N., miller and distiller. Hoopes, Elizabeth.
Hoopes, D. C., miller.
Hoover, Sarah.
HOUTZ, CHRISTIAN, retired, Oskaloosa; was born in Berks county, Pennsylvania, December 27, 1806; he was raised in Fred- ericksburg, Lebanon county, where he received a good common school education; when sixteen years of age he served apprenticeship as carpenter and joiner, then re- moved to New York, and worked at his trade for two years; he mar- ried Miss Priscilla Colyer, Feb- ruary 22, 1830; she was a dangh- ter of Thomas Colyer; she was born in Myerstown, Lebanon conn- ty, November 6, 1812; in 1834 he moved to Perrysburg. Wood conn- ty, Ohio, and lived there thirteen years; he came to Iowa and loca- ted in Oskaloosa in June, 1847; he was engaged in building until 1854; he gave his attention to buying and selling land; he was very fortunate in selecting and buying land at low figures which rapidly advanced in valne; he has laid ont two additions to this city; he had but very little when he came here, but by good manage- ment, and being a man of strict integrity, and conscientious in all his dealings, he has amassed a nice property; he owns several farms, besides his city property ; he has given liberally to railroad enterprises, churches, colleges and schools; his wife died February 2, 1872; he married Josephine M. Jenkins October 1, 1873; she was born in Carroll county, Ohio, Oc- tober 3, 1839; he has one daugh-
ter by his first union, Mrs. Eva H. Needham, widow of the late John R. Needham.
Howar, George, undertaker.
HOWARD, HENRY, firm Henry Howard & Son, grocery and pro- vision dealers, Oskaloosa; born in Washington county, New York, July 11, 1821; lived there until fourteen years of age; removed to Franklin county, Ohio; learned carpenter's trade, and sash and blind making, and followed that business for seventeen years; he came to Iowa and located in this county in Octobr, 1855, and in the following spring, 1856, he en- gaged in his present business, and is the oldest grocery merchant now in business here, and is one of the oldest merchants in this connty; he has held various town and school offices, and has been ac- tively identified with the interests of the city and county; he is treas- nrer of five or six different organ- izations-Forest Cemetery, Mahas- ka County Bible Society, D. E. Payne's Commandery, No. 6, Ho- ram Chapter No. 6, and Oskaloosa No. 7; he married Miss Mary Scofield, from Washington county, New York, in 1845; they have five children, Maria L., George F., Flora A., Harry S., and Edwin S.
Huber, Francis, retired.
HUBER, CHARLES, firm C.Hn- ber & Bro., dealers in hardware and house furnishing goods, Os- kaloosa; born in Baden, Germany, February 2, 1846, and when eleven years of age emigrated to America, and came to Oskaloosa in June, 1857; he engaged as clerk in store in 1860, and was connected with the hardware business as clerk and salesman for twelve years; and in 1874 engaged in business for him- self, and has carried it on since then; he had nothing when he began life; he married Miss M.
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V. Warren, from Pennsylvania, December 7, 1875; they have one daughter, Anna.
Hughes, Patrick, wagon-maker.
Hull, L. L., harness and sadlery.
Hull, Amaziah, teacher.
Hull, E. W., carpenter.
HUNT, D. W ., superintendent and manager of the Oskaloosa gas works; born in North Carolina, January 7, 1832; when five years of age he moved with his parents to Indiana; he received his edu- cation at Haverford, Pennsylvania, and afterward engaged in teaching at Bloomingdale Academy; he came to Iowa in 1865, and located in Oskaloosa and engaged in real estate and insurance; he has been connected with the gas works for the past five years; he married Miss Mary R. Llewelyn, from Haverford, Pennsylvania, in 1859; they have five children, Hermon, Anna R., Esther D., Hannah R. and H. Rowland; they have lost two, Mary E. and Sibyl J.
Huntsman, H. C., physician. Hurst, D. A., physician.
Hurst, James, stock dealer.
TNGELS, BRUCE, marble cutter.
Irvin, George, teamster.
TACKSON, M. L., surgeon den- tist, Oskaloosa; born in South Carolina, August 14, 1829; when quite young removed to Illinois, and lived there twelve years, then removed to Lee county, Iowa; he returned to Illinois and read med- icine, then went to St. Louis and studied dentistry; he came to this county in 1854, and engaged in the practice of his profession, and has continued since then, nearly twenty-five years; he has held the position of vice-president of the Iowa State Dental Society for two terms, and was director in the old State Bank of Iowa, and also in the State National Bank, which suc- ceeded it here; married Miss Joan
Phillips, from Illinois, November 1, 1855; they have five children, Harry, Dwight, Gertie, Lizzie and Willie.
Jenney, J. M., expressman.
Jessup, Riley, deputy sheriff. Jenkins, Jesse, farmer.
Johnson, William, horse dealer.
JOHNSON, J. KELLY, attorney, firm Lafferty & Johnson, Oska- loosa; born in Greene county, O., Angust 22, 1841; when 13 years of age he removed to Indiana and received his education there and in Ohio, and entered the law school at Ann Arbor, Michigan; he came to Oskaloosa and read law with Seevers & Williams, and attended the law school at Des Moines, and was admitted to the Bar there in the spring of 1867; after spending one year in Eddy- ville, he associated with Geo. W. Lafferty in the practice of his profession here; he held the office of city solicitor here for six years; married Miss Ann E. Gruwell, daughter of Dr. Gru- well, April 21, 1871; they have four children, Irving C., Bessie, Ralph, Herbert.
JOHNSON, WARREN C., firm Johnson & Collins, Novelty Foun- dry, Oskaloosa; born in Warren county, Ohio, August 15, 1853; at an early age removed to Indi- ana, and lived there 8 years; he came to this city in 1864, and learned his trade here, and en- . gaged with Geo. E. Collins in the foundry business, and manufac- turing light machinery; and they are doing an extensive business. Johnson, Prof. B. W., editor and minister.
Johnson, A. W., butcher.
JONES, JOHN M., Oskaloosa city flouring mills; born in Belmont county, Ohio, January 10, 1823; was brought up there, and learned the wagon making business, and worked at it until 1856, and since
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then has been engaged in mill- wright and milling business; he came to Oskaloosa in 1869, and since then has been connected with the above mills; during the war, at the time of John Morgan's raid he was in the State service, and commanded a company. He is now serving his 6th year as member of the school board; married Miss Sarah A. Condon, from Knox county, Ohio, Janu- ary 25, 1842; they have 3 chil- dren, Mary L., Albert M., and Charles W., and have lost 4 chil- dren.
JONES, JOSEPH, carriage and wagon making, Oskaloosa; born in Wales, March 22, 1834, and came to America in 1851, and went to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he learned his trade; then removed to La Salle county, Ill .; and came to Iowa and located in Oskaloosa in spring of 1856, and engaged in his business, and has continued since then; he had nothing when he came here, but by industry and good manage- ment has built np a good business ; he married Miss Catharine A. Gilmore from Indiana, in Janu- ary, 1857; they have 9 children, 4 sons and 5 daughters, Joseph A., William, Edwin, Franklin, Susie, Alice, Nellie, Ida, Grace. Jones, Mrs. Jane.
Jones, Wesley, teamster.
Jones, James, laborer.
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ALBACH, I., lumber dealer.
KALBACH, JOHN A., firm of I. Kalbach & Son, lumber dealers, Oskaloosa; born in Schuylkill county, Pennsylvania, September 1, 1844; when 5 years of age re- moved to Indiana, came to Mus- atine, Iowa in 1850, and came to Mahaska county in 1851, over 27 years ago, being among the early settlers; he engaged in the
lumber business in the summer of 1864, and has been engaged in the business longer than any one in the same trade; they also carry on the business at New Sharon; has held the office of city councilman; he was elected county supervisor, Oct. 8, 1878; married Miss Lonise Patterson, in June, 1873; they have 3 chil- dren, Warren, Helen, and a little girl.
KELLY, JOSEPH, retired, Oska- loosa; born in London, England, between Story's Gate, St. James Park and Westminster Abbey; he came with his parents in boy- hood to this country, and settled in Chillicothe, O .; removed to La Salle county, Illinois, and located about 3 miles from Peru, which at that early day only contained one building; being among the earliest settlers there, he was prominently identified with set- tling up that county; he entered 2,000 acres of land near Dixon, Illinois; he married Mrs. Fidelia Pierce from Rochester, N. Y., August 18, 1845; they came to Iowa and arrived in this county October 17, 1854; he engaged in merchandising here and at Mon- tezuma; he received appointment of Collector of Internal Revenue, October 1, 1862, and filled that office until August 9, 1869; with but one exception he was the only Federal official in the State who was retained, that did not John- sonize, and he was retained on account of his efficiency, which was acknowledged by the de- partment; he has since then had offers of Federal appointments, but he preferred to remain in private life; and has been engaged in real estate and insurance bus- ness; he is, and has been promi- nently identified with his church in all of its interests; they have
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four children, Wilbur F., Frank, Fred E., Stella May; have lost 2 children, Ella and Clarence.
KEMBLE, AMOS, manufacturer of canned vegetables and fruits, Oskaloosa; born in Columbiana county, Ohio, September 15th, 1827, and lived there until 22 years of age; he came to Iowa in 1850, and located in Polk county, taught school there and came to this county in 1852 and engaged in farming; he was appointed deputy sheriff under sheriff Ed- mondson and held that office for 3 years; and then carried on a steam bakery until 1865, when he engaged in gardening quite ex- tensively, and in 1873 he con- nected the canning business with it; liis canned goods are of a su- perior quality, and he finds a ready market for them; he mar- ried Miss Margaret J. Apple, from Salem, Ohio, March 12, 1850; they have S children, Em- ma, Nora, Kay, John, Ida, Willie, Josie and Charlie; have lost one daughter, Mollie.
KEMPER, WM., carpenter and builder, Oskaloosa; born in Vir- ginia, September 20, 1818, and lived there until thirteen years of age, and removed to Ohio and was bronght up, and learned his trade there. He came to Iowa by wagon and carriage, was twenty-five days on the way, and arrived in ()ska- loosa October 7, 1849, and began working at his trade. He was one of the early settlers and is the oldest builder here now. He has put up many buildings in the city and county, owns a farm of 120 acres, which he entered from the government and laid ont Kem- per's addition to Oskaloosa; has been vice-president of the school board; married Elizabeth J. Elsey, from Hardin county, Ohio, Ang- ust 1, 1843; they have six children, Hattie, George, Eliza Clarence,
Alice and Jennie, and lost one daughter.
KENDIG, H. R., justice of the peace, Oskaloosa; born in Lancas- ter county, Pa., April 30, 1830; when eight years of age, he re- moved to Stark county, Ohio, in 1838, and lived there seventeen years and came to Iowa in 1855 and located in this county, and has lived here over twenty-three years; he has held office of county treasurer for six years, was elect- ed in 1871. He also held the office of town clerk for ten years; he married Miss Catherine Earhart, from Portage county, Ohio, in November 1852; they have seven children, Olivia L., Clara E., Myra M., Sylvia II., Maud A., Daisy B., Homer R., and have lost two chil- dren, one son and daughter.
KENDIG, A. A., teller and book- keeper; born in Stark county Ohio, December 30, 1846, he came to Iowa and arrived in Oskaloosa May 5, 1855, and was brought up and received his education here; married Miss Josie E. Danner, from Winterset, Madison county, Iowa, November 26, 1868; they have had one daughter who died in infancy.
KENWORTHY, W. S., attorney ; born in Henry county, Indiana, May 24, 1840; he was brought up there until eighteen years of age, and then removed to Jasper coun- ty Iowa; he was engaged in teach- ing there, and came here and stud- died law, and was admitted to the bar in 1865, and has practiced his profession here for six years; he married Miss Margaret Straughan from Washington county Pa., November 28, 1866; they have four children, Byron, Horace, Ger- tie and Bessie.
Kennedy, William, lawyer.
Kernahan, D. R., carpenter. Ketner, Eli, farmer.
Kimble, William, insurance agent.
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Kingsley, I. W., book agent. King, H. E., wagon maker.
KISSICK, ROBERT, attorney at law; born in Mercer county, Pa., May 4, 1843; when he was sixteen years of age came to Iowa, and located in Oskaloosa April 7, 1859; during the war went in the army; enlisted in Ang., 1862, in the 33d Regiment Iowa Infantry, Co. C., and was sergeant and United States color bearer; in the spring of 186+ he was transferred to the 113th United States Colored Infantry, and was commissioned first lieu- tenant and adjutant; was in the Yazoo Pass expedition in rear of Vicksburg, and at Capture Rock, and in other engagements. He was obliged to resign on account of ill health; after his return from the army he entered school and engaged in teaching; studied law, and entered the Iowa State Uni- versity, and graduated from the law department in class 1872, and since then has practiced his pro- fession here; he held office Deputy United States revenue collector for Mahaska and Marion counties, for three years; he was elected justice of the peace in January, 1877; was re-elected in October, 1878; he married Miss Mary J. Pettitt, from Ohio, in November, 1868; they have four children, Ralph W., Frank P., Guy E., and Edwin Robert.
Klein, John E., retired. Knowlton, S., farmer.
Knox, John, paper hanger. Kreitzer, Henry, coal miner Lacey, W. R., lawyer.
LACEY, MAJOR JOHN F., whose portrait is found on another page of this work, was born in West Virginia, at New Martinsville, in 1841. The days of his child- hood were spent in New Martins- ville and Wheeling, in the schools of which latter place and those of Mahaska county, the Major laid
the foundation for his success by a thorough mastery of those rudi- mental branches which the artifi- cial style of our modern schools sometimes ignore, to the great misfortune of the youth attending. Young Lacey removed to Oska- loosa with his parents in the spring of 1855, being then fourteen years of age. Having commenced the study of law, the call of April, 1861, for troops, ronsed the young student from his dreams over Greenleaf and Vattel. In the very front of those who sprang to answer the treasonable roar of the guns upon Sumpter, John F. Lacey enlisted in Co. H, 3d Iowa Infantry, which left Mahaska May 30, 1861, his twentieth birthday. The close of the battle at Blue Mills Landing found young Lacey a prisoner of the Southern Con- federacy. Fortunately he was paroled at Lexington, Missouri, after the seige of that place, and as a paroled prisoner was dis- charged November, 1861; he re- turned to the law books in the office of Samuel A. Rice, in Oska- loosa; but when Mahaska made her great contribution to Uncle Sam, the flower of chivalry in the 33d Regiment, young Lacey, hav- ing been exchanged with the other paroled prisoners, again en- listed as private in Co. D, and was soon appointed sergeant ma- jor of the regiment. In the fol- lowing spring he was promoted and commissioned first lieutenant, after which time he was on staff duty; his most active service was in the battle of Helena, the expe- dition on Yazoo Pass, and in the campaigns against Little Rock and Camden, and the campaign of Mobile, where he took part in the last battle of the war-the storming of Blakely. After the death of General Rice at Jenkin's Ferry, Major Lacey was appointed
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on the staff of General Steele as adjutant general, and acted in that capacity until after the fall of Richmond; he then went with General Steele, who commanded 40,000 men in the army of obser- vation on the Rio Grande. Having returned to Oskaloosa in 1865, and completed his legal studies, he was admitted to the Bar, and has since been engaged in practice in that place. In 1869 he was elected to the legislature from Mahaska county, and served one term. Not only has Major Lacey served his country in the military and civil list, but he has likewise benefitted his profession in the preparation of valuable legal works; the Major is energetic, a diligent student and an indefati- gable worker; he published the 3d Iowa Digest, making with Judge Dillon's and Judge Ham- mond's the complete Digest of Iowa Reports; he also published in 1875 Lacey's Railway Digest, being a full Digest of Railway Cases and Railway Law; this is a volume of 1,000 pages, and is a very complete. and exhaustive work. In that other sphere of life where mankind is to look for the most of happiness this world gives, where the soul is fed, the manhood strengthened and his nobility nourished-in his own home, Major Lacey has been abundantly blessed. The partner of his joys and the sharer of life's ills he found in the person of Miss Mattie Newell, of Ohio, whom he married September 19, 1865; four children, Nellie, Raymond, Kate and Bernice, are the complement of his family circle.
Ladynski, C., shoemaker.
LAFFERTY, GEO. W., attorney, firm, Lafferty & Johnson, Oska- loosa. Born in Mercer county, Pa., April 9, 1838; be was brought up and received his education
there; upon the breaking out of the rebellion he enlisted in April, 1861, in the 10th Regiment Penn- sylvania Reserve Volunteer Corps, Co. G, and afterward enlisted in the service for three years. He was in the second battle of Bull Run and Fredericksburg, and in all the battles of the wilderness up to May 31, 1864; after the war he came to Iowa and located here July 16, 1864; he read law with John R. Needham and was ad- mitted to the bar in 1865, and was associated with him in the prac- tice of his profession until the death of Mr. Needham, in July, 1868; he soon after associated with J. Kelly Johnson, which as- sociation still continues; he was elected district attorney in the fall of 1874, which office he still holds; he married Miss S. A. Fisher, from Warren county, O., December 26, 1865; they have one daughter, Mabel E. Lahr, John, laborer.
Larkins, Mordecai, retired.
Lee, Absalom, laborer.
Lee, E. R., restaurant.
LEE, GEO. R., editor Oskaloosa Herald. Born at Verplank, New York, February 25, 1842; he was brought up and lived there, ex- cept one year spent in Connecti- cut, until thirteen years of age, and came with his parents to Iowa, and located in Oskaloosa in October, 1855; he entered the printing office of the Oskaloosa Times in 1858, and remained un- til the breaking out of the war, when he enlisted in the first com- pany organized in this town un- der the call for 75,000 men; the company was not accepted and temporarily disbanded; he went to Illinois and enlisted in Chicago in the 1st Illinois Artillery, Co. E; their battery fired the first gun in the battle of Shiloh; on account of sickness he was obliged to re-
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turn home; he was in siege of Vicksburg and siege of Jackson; after the war he returned to Mus- catine county for four years, then came here and entered the Herald office, and continued there until 1877, when he became associated with Henry C. Leighton in pub- lishing the Herald; upon the death of Mr. Leighton, Jannary 31, 1878, he assumed the entire editorial charge of the paper. He has held the office of city clerk for four years. The subject of this this sketeth is a man of taste and good order in all that he under- takes; as a compositor at the case he was among the most rapid in the west, and as foreman of the Herald office, he always kept things " in apple pie order," until by the death of Mr. Leighton, he was called to the editorial chair of the great journal, of which he had been one of its best builders. IIe married Miss Mary E. Dumont, daughter of Richard and Sarah Dumont, of Oskaloosa, and for- merly of New York City, April 8, 1868. They have three children, Edith, Florence and Ralph, and have lost one daughter, Leona.
LEIGHTON, TOBIAS, assistant postmaster, Oskaloosa. Born in Somerset county, Maine, April 4, 1812; he was brought up there and learned the carpenter's trade; he removed to Illinois in 1836, and lived there eight years, and came to Wapello connty, Iowa, in 1844; he came to Oskaloosa in 1847 and engaged in building; he is one of the early settlers, and has held town and school offices; married Miss Harriet Coe, from Greene county, Ill., December 3, 1840; they have two sons, Charles and William, and have lost six sons.
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