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Norris, R. W., teacher.
Nugent, Dr. W. R. druggist. Nowles, Moses, farmer.
O BERFELL, JOSEPH, cooper.
O'Hara, Ralph, insurance.
O'Hara, George E., clerk.
Oldham, William, bridge builder. OWEN, HENRY B., carpenter and builder, Oskaloosa; born in Mus- kingum county, Ohio, December 25, 1834; when about ten years of age came with his parents in covered wagon to Iowa; they ar- rived in this town in May, 1844, and were among the first settlers here; he learned trade of earpen- ter and joiner, and is the oldest builder and mechanic here; mar- ried Miss P. A. Barton, from Wayne county, Indiana, March 1, 1855; they have six children, Chester T., Eva M., Lueinda A., Mabel, Barton, Bessie, and have lost two children, Frank and Myrtle.
OWEN, Dr. C. G., physician; born in Derby, Orleans county, Ver- mont, August 9, 1806; when seven years of age removed to York state, and from there to Monroe county, Michigan, near where the battle of Frenchtown was fought; he studied medieine in Ohio; came to Iowa and ar- rived in Oskaloosa May 13, 1845,
and located on the corner of Jef- ferson and High streets, and lived there in that location thirty-two years; he is one of the old settlers, and has practiced his profession here for thirty-two years, longer than any other physician here; he has been married three times; his first wife was Mariam Roup, from Pennsylvania, married September 11, 1828; she died in 1841, leav- ing two children, Eliza M. and Henry B .; married Electa C. Frederick, from Cumberland Co., Ohio, in 1843; she died in 1858; in 1860 he married Mrs. Cynthia Kyle, from Ohio.
Paine, A. A., laborer.
Pardun, Vincent, magnetic healer. PARKHURST, A. J., proprietor Parkhurst Washing Machine, Os- kaloosa; born in Plattsburg, Clin- ton county, New York, October 24, 1833; was removed to Ohio in infaney, and came to Bremer Co., Iowa, in 1852, lived there sixteen years, and came here in 1868; he patented the Parkhurst Washing Machine, and in 1877 he engaged in manufacturing them; married Lucinda Sherwood, from Bethel, Conneetient, in 1858; they have one son, Elmer.
Parker, Richard, farmer.
Parsons, George W., elerk.
Patterson, John, car repairer. Patton, William N., clerk.
PERDUE, B. R., blacksmith, Oska- loosa; born in Columbiana Co., Ohio, July 15, 1820; he was brought up and learned his trade there; he lived there and in Ill- inois until 1849, when he came to Iowa by wagon; they were twenty-eight days on the way, and during their journey only crossed the track of one railroad; they arrived here October 28, 1849; he engaged in blacksmith- ing, and has carried on the busi- ness longer than any blacksmith here, and is one of the early set-
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tlers; he was a volunteer in the three-month service during the war, but was not accepted; he has held office of city councilman for four years, and is a member of the masonic order, thirty-second de- gree; he married Miss Catharine Shriver, from Stark county, Ohio, April 7, 1844; they have seven children, four sons and three daughters.
Perdue, David S., painter. Perdue, Pierce, printer. Perdue, C. A., retired.
Perkins, George, coal miner.
Perkins, John, butcher.
PHILLIPS, T. G., retired, Oskaloo-
sa; born in Scott county, Kentucky, February 18, 1823, and when nine years old removed to Morgan county, Illinois, and lived there until twenty-one years of age, when, with his parents, he started for Iowa by ox team; he drove four yoke of cattle to one wagon; they were about twenty days on the way, and arrived here in Os- kaloosa April 22, 1844; they brought provisions with them, and the settlers being aware of it be- fore they had unloaded their goods, people came with pails, pans and dishes to borrow flour, and, though they were all strangers, every one was helped and no questions asked; there was only one log cabin in the town, and a new double log house, not completed, for a hotel; his father had bought five hun- dred acres the previous year, and they built a cabin and moved into it without any floor; he was en- gaged in farming for twenty-five years; all the land they took up when they eame is now in the city ; he has held the offices of justice of the peace, assessor, and was acting sheriff and member of the board of supervisors; he married Miss Semira A. Hobbs, from In- diana, January, 1846; she tanght the first school in Mahaska coun-
ty; they have two children, O. C. G., lawyer, and O. Q., living at home.
PHILLIPS, O. C. G., attorney,. Os- kaloosa; born in Oskaloosa, Au- gust 31, 1848, and was brought up here; he received his education at the Ohio Wesleyan University, at Delaware, Ohio, and then stud- ied law with Judge Crookhan, and was admitted to the bar in October, 1872; since then he has practiced his profession; he mar- ried Miss Sallie J. Newhall, from Delaware, Ohio, in September, 1873; they have three children, Dot, Jack, and Anna Lee.
Pickerell, William, retired Pike, Robert G., carpenter.
PILGRIM, WILLIAM H., dealer in stoves and house furnishing goods, Oskaloosa; born in White- side county, Illinois, August 29, 1839, and when three years of age came with his uncle to this coun- ty, in 1842, before the Indians left, and was one of the earliest settlers here, there being very few . now living that were here then; he was brought up here; he went west to the Rocky Mountains, Cal- ifornia and Oregon; he was in the army, in the First Regiment Col- orado Infantry, Company H; the regiment was afterward mounted; he was in many severe skirmishes; was in service two years, then re- turned, and has been engaged in business for the past seven years; married Miss Jennie Ayres, from Marion county, in 1871; they have four children, Medora, Charles A., William A., and a little girl not named.
PILLSBURY, REV. W. H. H., pastor First M.E. Church, Oskaloo- sa; born in York county, Maine, July 14, 1840, and was brought up and received his education there, until the breaking out of the rebel- lion; he was preparing for the min- istry, and had completed his sopho-
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more year when he enlisted in the Seventeenth Regiment Maine In- fantry, Company I; he was in the battles of the army of the Poto- mae; among them was the second battle of Bull Run, Fredericks- burg, Chancellorsville, Gettys- burg, and others; he was dis- charged on account of siekness, after serving two years; he re- turned and resumed his studies, and graduated at the Boston Uni- versity and in the school of theol- ogy, and began preaching in 1868; in 1870 lie was transferred west, and had charge of Division Street church, in Burlington, Iowa, for three years, and at Keokuk for two years, and came to his pres- ent large and growing church in 1876, and has, at the conference just closed, been appointed here for another year, at the unanimous request of his people; he married Miss Eliza C. Bowers, from Ken- nebee county, Maine, August 3, 1870; they have four children, Walter B., Willie H. II., Sue, and Edward A.
Pool, Simeon, retired.
PORTER, NELSON D., publisher and proprietor of the Oskaloosa Standard. Born in Brownville, Pa., January 23, 1838; he was brought up and regularly edu- cated and studied for the minis- try; preached in the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, in Pennsyl- vania, for six years; then remov- ed to Ohio and preached in Union Presbyterian and Congregational Churches; since then lias preael- ed in the Congregational Church; he came to Iowa in 1870, and came here in 1875, assuming the management of the Oskaloosa Standard. He married Miss Sallie A. Bennett, from Brown- ville, Pa., June 2, 1864; she died in Chicago, December 22, 1867; he married Anna P. Grover, from Cleveland, in August, 1869;
he has four children, Harry S., Chris. C., Fred N., and Ada M. Mr. Porter was chaplain of the 58th Regiment Pennsylvania Vol- unteer Infantry during the war.
PRICE, HENRY, dealer in watch- es, cloeks and jewelry, Oskaloosa; Born in Franklin county, Indiana, July 21, 1831; he was brought up and lived there until twenty- one years of age; then removed to Illinois. He was in the army; enlisted in 1862, in the 119th Regiment Illinois Infantry, Co. C; he was in a number of bat- tles and skirmishes, was mis- tered out in 1865, came to Oskaloosa in 1867, and since then has been engaged in his present business. Married Miss M. J. Gardner, from Cincinnati, in April, 1867; they have two chil- dren, George L. and Edgar S.
Priestly, James, cook.
Prine, M. K., farmer and fine stock. Priestly, William, laborer.
Q Co.
UICK, D. C., clerk Proudfit &
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AYNES, L. B., retired.
Ream, John, teamster. Reser, David, shoemaker.
RHINEHART, JAMES, retired.
Born in Greene county, Pa., Aug- ust 22, 1802; he was brought up and received his education there; then studied law and was admit- ted to the bar; he lived in Penn- sylvania thirty years, and removed to Guernsey county, Ohio, and practiced law there; held the of- fice of justice of the peace there for nine years. He came to this county in May, 1854, and located on a large farm, but after one year he came to Oskaloosa and en- gaged in the practice of his pro- fession. He was elected judge of Mahaska county, and held that position for eight years, transact- ing all of his business without a clerk; lie held the office of mayor
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of this city for three years. Mar- ried Miss Delila Eagon, from Waynesburg, Greene county, Pa., December 26, 1826. They have three children, Mrs. Eliza J. Johnson, Mrs. Minerva McKin- ley, and Mrs. Lubitia Smith; they have lost one son.
RICE, JAS. A., attorney, Oska-
loosa. Son of the late Gen. S. A.
Rice; was born in Oskaloosa, September 30, 1855; after at- tending school here he took his college course at Jefferson college, class of 1875, and then entered the law department of the Iowa State University, and graduated in 1877; since then he has prac- ticed his profession here. He holds the office of mayor of this city; was elected March 4, 1878. Rice, Milo M., county recorder.
Rickey, J. B., traveling salesman.
Rinard, Henry, teamster.
Rinker, W. A., grocer.
Robb, William, spinner.
Roberts, J. W., carpenter.
Roberts, J. L., farmer.
Robertson, David, carpenter.
Rogers, Ezekiel, carpenter.
Rogers, Frank, laborer.
Rogers, Charles, teamster.
Rosenberger, Henry D., miller.
ROSS, GEO. A., county anditor, Oskaloosa; born in Harrison county, Ohio, March 19, 1840; his father was professor of Beth- any College, Virginia, for seven- teen years, and was professor and acting President of Oskaloosa College, and was President of Franklin College, Ohio, until his death which occurred in February, 1876. The subject of this sketch received his education at Bethany, Virginia, and then attended West Liberty Academy, Virginia, now the State Normal school, for two years; he engaged in teaching at Lexington, Kentucky, and at Hickman, and then to Wheeling; at Wheeling he held the office of
assistant assessor of Internal Revenue until 1865; he came to this county in 1867; he was elected county Auditor in 1873, and was re-elected in 1875, and again re-elected in 1877; married Miss Emma Yarrall from Wheel- ing, Virginia, in fall of 1861; he has 7 children, 6 sons and one daughter.
Rounds, L. D., dentist.
Ruple, J. R., miller.
Ryan, Pat, gardner
S COTT, W. R., carpenter.
Scott, David E., physician and sur- geon.
Scruggs, J. E., retired.
SEARLE. CHAS. P., attorney,
land and loan agency, Oskaloosa; born in Chester, Hampden county, Massachusetts, April 16, 1831; he was brought up and received his education there, and in 1850 moved to Trumbull county, Ohio; he came to Iowa and located in this county in May 1854, and went in a store, and afterwards engaged in mercantile business until the breaking out of the war, when he enlisted in 1861 in the 8th Regi- ment Iowa Infantry, Co. H; he was in the battle of Shiloh and was taken prisoner there April 6, 1862; he was taken to Montgom- ery, and then to Macon, and Madison, Georgia, and to Libby prison; he was a prisoner 6 months, and was exchanged Octo- ber 19th, 1862; he joined his regiment in St. Louis, and was in the siege of Vicksburg and in the two battles of Jackson; at Brandon he was promoted from Sergeant major of the regiment to 1st Lieutenant, and was promot- ed to, and commissioned Captain of the company; during Forrest's raid on Memphis when the Union forces were surprised, Captain Searle and his command were taken prisoners; though he
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was severely wounded he was de- termined not to again partake of the hospitality of Libby prison; he had narrow escapes from death several times, but his life was saved by his courage and presence of mind; he still suffers from the wounds he received; he was discharged in January 1865, on account of disability; after the war he was elected clerk of the courts in 1866, and held that office for 8 years; during this time he studied law and was admitted to the bar; he was cashier of the National State Bank, and afterward purchased the abstract books and engaged in his present business; married Miss Martha E. Turner, daughter of Rev. Asa Turner, April 12th, 1859; they have 3 daughters, Dora E., Alice M., and Hattie L. SEERLEY, PROF. HOMER H., superintendent of schools of the Independent District of Oskaloo- sa; born in Indianapolis, Indiana, August 13, - 1848; when three years of age his parents removed to Stark county, Illinois, and he came with them to Iowa, in 1854, and located in Keokuk county. He attended the common schools in that county, and in April, 1866, entered the preparatory depart- ment of the Iowa State Univer- sity; remained there for one year, and then engaged in teaching un- til 1869, when he returned to the Iowa University and entered the freshman class and graduated in the academical department, in 1873. He came here the follow- ing September and engaged in teaching as assistant in the High Scchool, and teacher of German; the following year he was chosen principal of the High school, and in April, 1875, he was elected to his present position as superin- tendent of schools; this action was entirely unexpected on his
part, and was done without his knowledge. He has been elected to the same position every year since. Prof. Seerley labors inde- fatigably for the interests of the schools, and during the three years that he has occupied his present position, there has not been an appeal to the school board. He married Miss Clara E. Twaddle, of this city, July 9, 1878.
SEEVERS, MRS. MARY, whose maiden name was Miss Mary Col- lins, was born in Fountain county, Indiana, and lived there until fif- teen years of age, and then came with her parents to Marion county, Iowa, and came to Mahaska coun- ty, in early part of 1854. She married James A. Seevers, in May, 1855. He was born in Jefferson Co., Va., March 6, 1832; when ten years of age he came with his father to Iowa. His father left him in school at Burlington, but he did not have a very good opinion of the teacher, so he left and started on foot and walked to Oskaloosa. He received his education in this State, and studied law with his brother, Judge Seevers, and was ad- mitted to the bar in 1853, and en- gaged in practice of law. Upon the breaking out of the war, he, with one or two others, raised a company, and enlisted in October, 1861; was elected and commissioned cap- tain of Company C, 15th Regi- ment, Iowa Infantry. He was in the battles of Shiloh, Iuka, Boli- var, Corinth, and received injuries on the march from Corinth to Grand Junction, and was obliged to resign. After his return, he practiced law here until his death, November 5, 1865, leaving three children, Charles A., James E. and Eva.
SEEVERS, BYRON V., attorney, Oskaloosa; born in Coshocton county, Ohio, March 3, 1847, and
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when six years of age, came with his parents to Iowa, arriving in this county in 1853; he attended school here, and completed his education in Ohio. After gradu- ating there, he returned and stud- ied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1874, and since then he has practiced his profession here; he is a member of the school board. He married Miss Laura M. Smith, daughter of Wm. T. Smith, Esq., January 1, 1874; they have two children, Ada L. and Mildred Pau- line.
Seevers, Thomas, Oskaloosa, foun- dry.
SETZER, D. H., Oskaloosa City Flouring Mills; born in Shenan- doah county, Virginia, September 21, 1833; when between two and three years of age, he removed with his parents to Licking coun- ty, Ohio; he learned his business in that state, and lived there about twenty years; came to Iowa, in 1857, and located in this connty; engaged in the mill- ing business, and has been en- gaged in it since then, twenty-one years, and longer than anyone here in the same business. He mar- ried Miss Ann E. Colwell, from Licking county, Ohio, in Febru- ary, 1860; they have three child- ren, Martin V., Emily M. and David J .; and they have lost two children.
SHANNON, JOHN A., dealer in dry goods and groceries, Oskaloo- sa; born in Warren county, New Jersey, November 25, 1839; when sixteen years of age, he came with his parents to Iowa, in Septem- ber, 1856, and located in Mahaska county, at New Sharon, and en- gaged in farming; went in the army; enlisted August, 1862, in the 33d Regiment Iowa Infantry, Co. D; was in the siege of Mobile, and Red River expedition, and others; was in the service three
years. After the war he was in the engineering department of the Central Railroad of Iowa, for five years, and engaged in his present business in 1872. He is a mem- ber of the city council. He mar- ried Miss Katie C. White, from Chillicothe, Ohio, February 14, 1871.
Shannon, Jabez, butcher.
SHAW, WILLIAM H., firm of Shaw & Loring, grocery and pro- vision dealers, Oskoloosa; born in Mifflin county, Pennsylvania, Oc- tober 2, 1840; when eight years of age, removed to Ohio and lived there nine years, and came with his parents to Iowa, in 1858, and located in this county, near Fre- mont, on a farm; he was also en- gaged in teaching. He was in the army; enlisted August 12, 1862, in the 33d Regiment Iowa Infan- try, Co. K; was orderly sergeant of the company; was in the battle of Helena, siege of Spanish Fort, and others, and in many skir- mishes and raids; was discharged August 8, 1865. After his return from the service, he engaged in teaching, and afterward engaged in business, and has continued for the past twelve years. He mar- ried Miss S. M. Mc Williams, from Ohio, October 25, 1868; they have two children, Ella C. and Ernest H.
Shaw, Thomas E., Prof. Penn Col- lege.
Shaw, John, constable.
Sharp, R. A., carpenter.
Shearer, James, minister.
SEEVERS, JUDGE W. H. While in this land of democratic princi- ples and sudden changes, which sometimes lift the cobbler's ap- prentice to the foremost legislative honors, or drop the son of a world's idol into the gutter and bury him in an unknown grave, there is not much attention given to family rank and ancestral deeds; yet it
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is sometimes with a pardonable pride that the friends of a man who has emulated the good name of his forefathers, point to the record of his family and read with pleasure the life work of his kins- man. Judge Seevers is of one of the proud old Virginia families; his father, James Seevers, who still lives with him, is one of the heroes of 1812, who has lived to receive the morning smiles of the last quarter of a century whose first quarter had seen him a re- tired volunteer from his country's service, a sharer in the battle of Bal- timore. James Seevers married Rebecca Wilkins, of Virginia, in August, 1819, and of their chil- dren the subject of this sketch is the oldest survivor. Mr. Seevers family was a large one, being composed of eight sons and two daughters, of whom those living besides Judge Seevers are Mrs. M. T. Williams and Thos. L.
Seevers, of Marshalltown. The family came to Maliaska in 1843, arriving in June; the journey was made across the prairies by means of a four-horse team and one horse baronche. The father made a claim of a quarter section about one mile southeast of Oska- loosa. Three sons were in the war; John N. as sergeant, James A. as captain, and Theodorick as second lieutenant. The venerable father of this family, of whom it is our pleasure to speak thus fully, is now (1878) eighty-six years of age, and is one of Mahaska's most respected pioneers; he bears well and heartily the honors of a ripe old age. Judge Seevers did not come to Iowa until the year fol- lowing the immigration of his pa- rents; he arrived in June, 1844, finding at that date the glory of Oskaloosa wrapt in the embryo of a boarding shanty and a corner grocery. Mr. Seevers chose the
law as his profession, and was ad- mitted to the bar in 1846, at which time he began practice; he is the only attorney yet living in Oska- loosa who was engaged in practice at that time; he was elected pros- ecuting attorney in 1848 (?) and served two years, and from 1852 to 1856 filled with credit the office of district judge; two terms in the legislature, during the years 1848 and 1874, brought to the judge a state reputation, and in 1876, having been temporarily appointed judge of the Supreme Conrt of Iowa, he was elected to that position by the votes of the people in the fall of the same year; he still holds that high place of honor. February, 1849, Mr. Seev- ers married Miss Caroline M. Lee; their children are Mrs. Jennie Briggs, Mrs. Carrie Fletcher, Harry W., Grace, Nellie and Wm. HI; death plucked one blossom, a daughter, Alice. Judge Seevers is a standard man; it were well for our nation had she more such on the bench; reliable, true as steel, himself a close reasoner, Judge Seevers, early in his judicial career, became a favorite of the bar, and the terror of "shysters," a class whose friendship is easily spared. Shearer, W. J., minister.
SHEAK, J. H., firm Sheak & Shirra, elevator, buying and ship- ping grain, Oskaloosa; born in Duchess county, New York, and at an early age removed to Bing- hampton, where he was brought up; he was engaged in business for some years in New York City and Philadelphia; came to Oska- loosa in 1873, and engaged in grain and elevator business; they ship grain to Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Louis and eastern markets; he married Miss Lizzie Martin, from Pennsylvania, in September, 1867; they have had one son, David W., who died in infancy.
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Shoemake, M. L., pump business. Shoemake, Isaac, farmer.
SHRIVER, L. P., firm Whitaker & Shriver; born in Columbiana Co., Ohio, in 1832, and lived there until 1850, when he came with his parents by wagon to Iowa; they were twenty-eight days on the way, and only crossed one railroad track during the entire journey; they came to this county April 1, 1851, and located in Har- rison township; they were early settlers, only few being there at that time; he engaged in farming and stock raising, and continued it for many years; engaged in his present business in 1877; he has held office of township clerk, and served on the board of supervisors for three years.
Shriver, David, gunsmith.
Sims, John, barber.
Simmons, P. J., painter.
Simmons, A., painter. Sinclair, Samuel, laborer.
Smith, Jolmn C., stone mason.
Smith, Al, stone cutter.
SMITH, WILLIAM T., the subject
of this sketch is recognized at · once as among the foremost citi- zens, and superior business men of Mahaska county; he is, and has been known in many parts of the State, as one of Oskaloosa's staunchest capitalists; Mr. Smith sprang from the middle ranks of life, whence the majority of suc- cessful men ean trace their line- age; he was born May 23, 1824, in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, his parents removing thence to Ohio while he was yet a lad, first to Dayton, and thence to Xenia; his parents had been in fair cir- cumstances, but lost heavily in assisting others; during his boy- hood young Smith attended the select school of Thomas Steele in Xenia several seasons, working in the summer on a farm or in town; at the age of sixteen he
commenced teaching district school, and continued teaching, mostly in winter, and attending school or reading law in summer, until July 31, 1847, when on ex- amination by the Supreme Court of Ohio, at Defiance, he was reg- ularly admitted to practice as at- torney and counselor at law in any of the courts of the State of Ohio. On the 18th day of Sep- tember 1847, with but $35 in his pocket, and light baggage, not supposing he knew a single indi- vidual in Iowa, he started for the far western Hawk-eye State to seek his fortune on the frontier; descending the Ohio, thence up the Mississippi to Burlington; he was there on October 18, 1847, · admitted to the Iowa bar, on mnotion of J. C. Hall of that place; Judge Williams was at that time on the Bench of this district; having taught school one winter near Fairfield, Mr. Smith on his coming into Oska- loosa, brought with him three dollars in money and quite a scanty wardrobe; soon after his arrival, (March 10, 1848), he en- tered into a law partnership with W. H. Seevers, and as neither of the "young limbs" had law books or money, Mr. Smith went to Burlington and purchased one hundred dollars worth of books from J. Fox Abrams, " on time," after making a plain statement of his financial condition, prospects, ete .; he was forced in the same way to secure credit for his board bill; but brighter days were ahead; at the annual election held in 1848, Mr. Smith having received the almost unanimous nomination of the Democratic county convention, was elected Prosecuting Attorney for the county, which office he held dur- ing two years; re-visiting Ohio in the summer of 1849, he mar-
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