USA > Iowa > Warren County > The history of Warren County, Iowa, containing a history of the county, its cities, towns, &c., a biographical directory of its citizens, war record of its volunteers in the late rebellion, general and local statistics &c > Part 90
Note: The text from this book was generated using artificial intelligence so there may be some errors. The full pages can be found on Archive.org (link on the Part 1 page).
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9 | Part 10 | Part 11 | Part 12 | Part 13 | Part 14 | Part 15 | Part 16 | Part 17 | Part 18 | Part 19 | Part 20 | Part 21 | Part 22 | Part 23 | Part 24 | Part 25 | Part 26 | Part 27 | Part 28 | Part 29 | Part 30 | Part 31 | Part 32 | Part 33 | Part 34 | Part 35 | Part 36 | Part 37 | Part 38 | Part 39 | Part 40 | Part 41 | Part 42 | Part 43 | Part 44 | Part 45 | Part 46 | Part 47 | Part 48 | Part 49 | Part 50 | Part 51 | Part 52 | Part 53 | Part 54 | Part 55 | Part 56 | Part 57 | Part 58 | Part 59 | Part 60 | Part 61 | Part 62 | Part 63 | Part 64 | Part 65 | Part 66 | Part 67 | Part 68 | Part 69 | Part 70 | Part 71 | Part 72 | Part 73 | Part 74 | Part 75 | Part 76 | Part 77 | Part 78 | Part 79 | Part 80 | Part 81 | Part 82 | Part 83 | Part 84 | Part 85 | Part 86 | Part 87 | Part 88 | Part 89 | Part 90
Wickliffe, G. D., farmer, Sec. 34; P. O. Spring Hill.
Willis, Thomas, farmer, Sec. 6; P. O. Norwalk.
Wilson, T. M., farmer, Sec. 17; P. O. Norwalk.
Woods, W. T., farmer, Sec. 7; P. O. Spring Hill.
WRIGHT, ISAAC C., farmer, Sec. 35; P. O. Summerset; is a native of County Down, Ireland, born Sept. 30th, 1831, and when only a child his parents emigrat- ed to this country and settled for a short time in Pittsburgh, and then came to Carroll county, O.,
$
734
DIRECTORY OF WARREN COUNTY.
where he remained till the spring of 1855, when he came to Wash- ington county, this State, where he lived to the time of his com- ing to this county, in April, 1857. He was raised a farmer up to about 21 years of age, when he learned the carpenter's trade and followed it as a business until 1862, when he bought a portion of what now constitutes his pres- ent homestead of 320 acres. He was married in this county, May 13th, 1862, to Miss Ella Graham, a native of Ohio, born Nov. 23d, 1836; they have two sons and two daughters: Eddie P., born Dec. 23d, 1863; Anna M., born Oct. 23d, 1865; Albert, born Feb. 13, 1869, and Nellie, born May 3, 1874. Mr. Wright was elected to the office of County Anditor in 1873, and served for one term. Wykoff, C. H., farmer, Sec. 4; P. O. Spring Hill.
YOUNT, E, J,. farmer, Sec. 16; P. O. Des Moines; born in Tippacanoe county, Ind., Feb. 12, 1841, and came to this county with his parents in the fall of 1849, and permanently located in the spring of 1850. IIe was married in this county to Miss Sallie E. Ash, a native of Indiana, in 1869; they have a family of three child- ren : Annie, Nellie and Catharine. He enlisted in the late war in Co. D, 2d Iowa Infantry, May 22d, 1861, and was discharged on the account of disability Ang. 29th, 1862; and on Aug. 20th, 1863, he re-enlisted in Co. M, 8th Iowa Cavalry and served till the close of the war; he was engaged in the battles of Fort Donelson, Tenn., siege of Corinth, Miss., and with Sherman to Atlanta, Ga. He owns a farm of 150 acres. Yount, D. W., farmer, Sec. 4; P. O. Des Moines.
LINN TOWNSHIP.
A LLEN, JONATHAN, far- mer, Sec. 34; P. O. Lothrop; born in Clinton county, Missouri, Jannary 11, 1836; lived there and in Gentry and Davies counties un- til he came to this county with his parents in the fall of 1847; was married in this county to Miss Mary A. Hutchings, a native of Ohio, in 1855; they have a fami- ly of seven children living: Eliza A., Lettie J., Alfred A., Whitley H., Matilda O., Mary M., and Sarah F .; owns a farm of 170 acres.
ALLER, WILLIAM, farmer, Sec 5; P. O. Commerce; born in Can- ada in 1828, and first came to the United States in 1845, and lived in Vermont, and returned to Can- ada in 1846 and remained brit one year, when he came to the State of New York and made it his
home till he came to this county in 1856, and has lived here since, except three years, when he made his home in Des Moines, where he followed the carpenter's trade, and a short time in 1862 that he spent in the mountains; was mar- ried in New York State to Miss Ann Dougherty, a native of Ire- land, in the year 1850; they have a family of five children living: James, Mary A., Sarah, George, Jane, and two deceased: William and John F .; owns a farm of 120 acres. Mr. Aller, when he came to this county, came to Iowa City by rail, and to his present home by stage, and landed his family with three "bits," or 37} cents in his pocket-the only. inon- ey he possessed-and started life in this county with that amount of cash capital and made what he now
735
LINN TOWNSHIP.
owns by honest labor and econo- my; there were times in his pio- neer lite in this county that he worked two days for one bushel of corn to eat; the first year that he camne he planted six bushels of wheat, and reaped bnt five, and the following season he gathered but one barrel of corn from seven acres of ground, and five acres of oats he harvested and stacked, and shortly after a prairie fire destroy- ed it, with all the hay that he had prepared for his stock during the winter. The next season yielded crops that were more encouraging, and from that time he has been very successful.
Aylward, Thomas, farmer, Sec. 5; P. O. Commerce.
Aylward, Jeremiah, farmer, Sec. 5; P. O. Commerce.
ARNOLD, R. G., farmer, Sec. 14; P. O. Norwalk; born in Ohio, in 1840; he was raised a farmer, and when nineteen years of age came to Iowa and engaged in farming; he continued this occupation for two years, and then enlisted in Co. F, 34th Iowa Infantry, Angust 16, 1862, and served three years; when he entered the army, he went from Wayne county, and af- ter his discharge from the service he came to this county in Sep- tember, 1865; owns 320 acres of improved land; he married Miss Clara Black, in 1871, a native of Ohio; they have one son, Ar- thur.
Arnold, Wesley, farmer, Sec. 15; P. O. Norwalk.
Arnold, J. D., farmer, Sec. 7; P. O. Commerce.
Aylward, James, farmer, Sec. 7; P. O. Commerce.
Aylward, Michael, farmer, Sec. 7; P. O. Commerce.
B AKER, HIRAM, farmer, Sec. 17; P. O. Norwalk.
Baker, Jacob, farmer, Sec. 17; P. O. Norwalk.
Banks, Absalom, farmer, Sec. 25; P. O. Norwalk.
Barkley, Robert, farmer, Sec. 3; P: O. Norwalk.
BEERY, DAVID. farmer, Sec. 24; P. O. Norwalk; is a native of Ohio; born the 7th of January, 1819, and came to this connty in the fall of 1855; was married to Miss Jennie Black, a native of Ohio, in 1842; they have a family of ten children living: Emanuel, Mary, Barbara, Noalı, George, Sarah, Rebecca, Jennie, Henry and Ellen; he owns 785 acres' of land, divided into three improved farms; his son Emanuel, enlisted in Co. E, 34th Iowa Infantry, Au- gust 15, 1862, and served three years.
BELL, THOMAS, farmer, Sec. 28; P. O. Lothrop, son of Samuel Bell, deceased; was born in Ohio, October 20, 1835, and caine to this county, with his, parents in 1853; was. married to Miss Mar- garet Sims, in the year 1859, and have a family of six children living: James, Thomas, Annie, Deil, John, Samuel; he owns in this county 173 acres of land.
BELL, JOHN J., farmer, Sec. 28; P. O. Lothrop, son of Samuel Bell, deceased; was born in Ohio, in the year 1833, and came to this county with his parents in 1853; he was first married to Mary Welsh, a native of Ohio, in 1858, who died in 1869; by this mar- riage there are three children liv- ing: Margaret, Thomas, Mary and J. P .; was married a second time, to Margaret Garvey, a native of Ohio; have four children living: Hugli, Joseph, William and Ellen; has held the offices of township assessor and trustee; owns 170 acres in this county, and 160 acres- in Boone county, this State.
Bentley, M. A., farmer, Sec. 6; P. O. Commerce.
736
DIRECTORY OF WARREN COUNTY.
Black, Peter, farmer, Sec. 13; P. O. Norwalk.
BLACK, GEO. G., farmer, Sec. 23; P. O. Norwalk; was born in Fair- field county, Ohio, Dec. 21, 1828, and made that his home till he came to this county, in April, 1867, except two years that he served in the late war; he was married in Ohio to Miss Amelia Ann Keller, a native of Portage county, Ohio, September 19, 1850; they have a family of seven children living: Isabella, Euphemia, Rebecca, John W., Clara E., Cora and James Arthur; Mary J., deceased; Mr. Black enlisted in Co. G, 114th Ohio Infantry, and served two years and two months.
Black, Jesse, farmer, Sec. 26; P. O. Norwalk.
Boyer, Joseph, farmer, Sec. 13; P. O. Norwalk.
Breckenridge, Matthew, Sec. 13; P. O. Norwalk.
Briggs, G. W., farmer, Sec. 3; P. O. Des Moines.
BURLINGAME, JABEZ, farmer, Sec. 34; P. O. Lothrop; is a na- tive of Morgan county, Ohio; born September 3, 1826, and lived there till he came to this county, May 6, 1855; was married to Miss M. A. Tutle, a native of Ohio, in the year 1855, August 27; have a family of one son and three daughters: Dorathy E., C. C., S. J., and E. F .; was justice of the peace for eight years; owns a farm of sixty-five acres.
AHILL, JOHN, farmer, Sec. 22; C P. O. Lothrop; is a native of Ireland; born in 1831, and came to America with his parents when about ten years old; lie lived for several years at Rochester, N. Y., then went to California and remained about seven years; he then returned to New York and married Miss Caroline Simmons, a native of New York, who was born in 1836, in Rochester; they
have a family of nine children: George, Charles, Joseph, Francis, Clotilda, Katie, Caroline, Corne- lia, and Minnie; he has a farm of about 500 acres.
Cain, James, farmer, Sec. 28; P. O. Norwalk.
CALE, JOHN H., farmer, Sec. 6; P. O. Commerce; is a native of West Virginia, born December 6, 1822, and lived there till fourteen years old, when he emigrated, with his father, to Wayne county, Indiana, and lived there three years; then to Indianapolis; from there to Bloomington, Illi- nois, and remained for five years; then to Scott county, this State, and from there to this county in the spring of 1855; he was inar- ried in Marion county, Indiana, January 27, 1848, to Miss Amelia Penry, a native of Ohio, born April 16, 1825; they liave a fami- ly of three sons and three daugh- ters, living: Roxana M., Iris G. (wife of Samuel Knouf), Dewitt D., Eldora D., R. D., Douglass D., and David R., deceased; owns a farm of 160 acres.
CALLISON, C. G., farmer, and stock-raiser and shipper, Sec. 18; P. O. Commerce; born in Vir- ginia, in 1831, and when quite small his parents came to Illinois, where he was raised, and made it his home till he came to this county, in September, 1856; he was married in Illinois, in 1854, to Miss Mary Golden, of that State; by this union they have a family of five children: Martha J., Caroline T., Abner F., Wm. G., and Jacob G .; he was raised on a farm, and now owns a finely improved one; his interests in the way of lands, in this county, is 630 acres.
CASSADY, JOHN, farmer, Sec. 38; P. O. Lothrop; born in Ire- land, in the year 1846, and came to the United States with his par-
737
LINN TOWNSHIP.
ents in 1849, and lived first in Perry county, Ohio, and came from there to this county in Nov., 1854, and since that time has made it his home; he was married in this county to Miss Ina Spain, Jan. 7, 1877, a native of New York; they have one daughter: Katie, born Nov. 11, 1878; he owns an improved farm of eighty acres.
Cassidy, W., farmer, Sec. 14; P. O. Norwalk.
Cassidy, L. E., farmer, Sec. 16; P. O. Norwalk.
Cassady, Mary, farmer, Sec. 33; P. O. Lothrop.
Cavenaugh, Joseph, farmer, Sec. 16; P. O. Norwalk.
Clary, Cornelius, farmer, Sec. 11; P. O. Norwalk.
Close. H. M., farmer, Sec. 15; P. O. Norwalk.
COE, JONATHAN, farmer and stock-feeder, Sec. 15; P. O. Nor- walk; is a native of Wayne county, Ohio, born February 24, 1829, and lived there (except one year that he spent in the Southi), till he came to this county in September, 1855; was married while in Ohio to Miss Mary A. Weaver, a native of Pennsylvania, born January 25, 1824; have a family of four sons and one danghter living: C. L. (now living in Kansas), H. L., C. M. (now connected with the press in Denver, Col.), and Ella; he owns a finely improved farm of 160 acres; the first year that Mr. Coe came to this county he ciren- lated a petition for a post-office at Norwalk, and was instrumental in having it established under the name of Pyra, and since that time the name has been changed to the present one.
Coe, H. L., farmer, Sec. 16; P. O. Norwalk.
Collins, Edward, farmer, Sec. 7; P. O. Commerce.
COOLEY, Z. G., firm of Cooley
Bros., groceries, wagon-shop and post-office; is a native of Indiana; born July 10, 1852, and came to this county with his parents in 1859; was married to Miss Jennie Hobson, a native of Indiana, Feb. 26, 1878; have one son: Clarence C., born June 23, 1879; is post- master at Norwalk, appointed May 8, 1877.
COOLEY, J. N., of Cooley Bros .; was born in Indiana, March 1, 1855, and came to this county with his parents in 1859.
Cooley, James, farmer, Sec. 9; P. O. Norwalk.
Cooley Bros., merchants and wagon shop; P. O. Norwalk.
Corbitt, William, farmer, Sec. 2; P. O. Commerce.
COUCH, J. H., farmer, Sec. 23; P. O. Lothrop; born in Pennsylvania, in the year 1814, and lived there till the year 1835, when he emi- grated to Missouri; then came from there to this county in 1848, and settled on what is known as. the six mnile strip, and belonged to Polk county: he married, while in Missouri, Miss Julia Fanning, a native of Kentucky, born in 1813, married in 1836; has a fam- ily of five children living: Joseph, William, George, Benjamin and James; his sons, Joseph and George, were in the 34th regiment, Iowa volunteers, and his son, Wil- liam, in the 4th Iowa Infantry ; he owns a farm of 160 acres.
D EARMOND, W., farmer, Sec .. 35; P. O. Lothrop.
Devitt, James, farmer, Sec. 29; P. O. Lothrop.
DICKEY, R., farmer, Sec. 10; P. O. Norwalk; born in Jefferson coun- ty, Ohio, in 1815, but was raised in Coshocton county, where he made his home till he came to this county, in the spring of 1868; he was married in Ohio, in 1837, to Miss Elizabeth Kinney, of that State; they have by this union a
738
DIRECTORY OF WARREN COUNTY.
family of ten children: Phoebe J., (wife of William Porter), Sarah A. (wife of J. B. Stuart), J. P., R. W., Almira E. (wife of V. M. Clary), Sadie E. (wife of Joe Pat- terson), Josephine J. (wife of J. P. Kinney), George W., F. W. and Joy G .; he enlisted in the late war in Co. H, 80th regiment, Ohio volunteers, October, 1862, and served eighteen months, and was discharged at Camp Dennison, Ohio, on account of wounds re- ceived at the battle of Corinth, Mississippi; he owns a nicely im- proved farm of 240 acres.
Dickey, John, farmer, Sec. 15; P. O. Norwalk.
Dickey, Robert W., farmer, Sec. 9; P. O. Norwalk.
Dickson, H. R., farmer, Sec. 11; P. O. Norwalk.
Doheny, Martin, farmer, Sec. 21. P. O. Lothrop.
Doud, James, farmer, Sec. 23; P. O. Norwalk.
E NGLAND, JESSE, farmer, Sec. 26; P. O. Norwalk.
AGAN, LUKE, farmer, Sec. 19; P. O. Des Moines: born in Ire- land in the year 1826; he lived in New York State for a short time; moved from there to Peoria, Ill., where he lived till he came to this county in 1868; he mar- ried Miss Sarah Richards, a na- tive of New York, in 1849; they have a family of eleven children living: Mary, John, Josephine, Elizabeth, Kate, Jane, Joseph, Duke, James, Ralph, and An- gusta. He owns a farmi of 320 acres of land.
Frazier, Wesley, farmer, Sec. 12; P. O. Norwalk.
ARSETT, J. M., farmer, Sec. T 19; P. O. Norwalk.
G
GATES, MRS. MARY A., farmer Sec. 35; P. O. Lothrop; widow of Cyrus Gates, a native of Knox county, Ohio, born November 24, 1822, and died in May, 1873;
Mrs. Gates, a native of Washing- ton county, Pennsylvania, born April 11, 1835; was married to her husband in 1855, November. 25thı. Her inaiden name was Mary A. Monasmith; they came to this county in December, 1855, she has a family of five children living; Leander, Brazil, Neta, Grant and Hoyt; has a farm of 224 acres.
Gifford, Isaac, farmer, Sec. 36; P. O. Norwalk.
GILFILLAN, AMAZIAH, farm- er, Sec. 6; P. O. Commerce; born in Ross county, Ohio, July 19, 1816; and lived in Ohio till twen- ty-two years old, then emigrated to Clinton county, Indiana, and remained till he came to Madison connty, this State, and from there to this county in the spring of 1856; was married in Ohio to Miss Belle Bailey, a native of Virginia, in 1837, September 24th; have a family of eleven children living: Adam E., Dru- silla (wife of Henry Wooden), William, Elizabeth (wife of Da- vid Pettit), Eliza J. (wife of Ben- jamin F. Burkhead), Caroline, Mary A. (wife of Elihu Ellis), Jasen, Melissa (wife of John Spencer), Rosetta, and Thomas; three deceased, Lillian D., Ida B., and an infant; owns a farm of 237 acres.
GRAHAM, MRS. B. A., farmer, Sec. 6; P. O. Commerce; widow of David S. Graham, who was born in New York city Jan. 15, 1827, and died in the hospital at Wilmington, N. C., March 25th, 1865. Mrs. Graham is a native of Olio, born March 28th, 1829, and was married to her husband Jan- nary 16th, 1851, and came to this county in the spring of 1854; she has a family of four children liv- ing: Elizabeth A., born January 16th, 1652; Nancy J., born Nov. 10th, 1854, (now the wife of C. C.
739
UNION TOWNSHIP.
Nicholson); James M., born Nov. 6th, 1857; Clarissa, born July 11, 1859; Franklin T., deceased, Aug. 30, 1863. Mr. Graliam was in the late war, in Co. C, 4th Iowa Inf. She owns 160 acres of land. GRIFFITHS, MRS. ELIZA-
BETH, farmer, Sec. 15; P. O. Norwalk; widow of James Grif- fiths, who was born Devonshire, England, Dec. 17, 1812, and died April 20, 1879. Mrs. Griffiths, whose maiden name was Elizabetlı Hopper, was born July 6th, 1815, in the State of New York, and left there with her parents when quite young, who emigrated to Ohio, and from there to Indiana, where she married her husband, Oct. 19th, 1848; they came from there to this county in March, 1855; she has a family of one daughter living: Clara (now the wife of John Dickey); she was born Oct. 6th, 1850. Mr. Dickey, her husband, is a native of Cosh- octon county, Ohio, born Dec. 22, 1840; they have two sons and one daughter: Howard, Millard, and Cemiency.
H ALEY, WM., farmer, Sec. 5; P. O. Commerce; born in New York city in 1835, and was raised in the State of Michigan and made it his home till he came to thiis county, in April, 1868; he was maried there to Miss Eugenia Nash, a native of Ohio, in 1863; they have one infant son deceased. He has been connected with vari- ous township offices; owns an improved farm of 130 acres.
HART, MRS. ELIZABETH, far- mer, Sec. 35; P. O. Lothrop; wid- ow of James Hart, who was born in North Carolina May, 14, 1821; he settled in this county in 1850. Mrs. Hart, whose maiden name was Elizabeth Neely, was born in Indiana in 1832, and was married to her husband in 1851; he died Oct. 22, 1860; she has a family of
four children living: John M.,
Peter, Eliza J. (now wife of Al-
bert Hughes), and Hannah J .; she owns a farm of 140 acres.
Hartley, A. G., farmer, Sec. 12; P. O. Norwalk.
Hart, A. J., farmer, Sec. 13; P. O. Norwalk.
Harless, T. H., farmer, Sec. 14; P. O. Norwalk.
Harrigan, Thomas, farmer, Sec. 21; P. O. Norwalk.
Haynes, Sylvester, farmer, Sec. 17; P. O. Norwalk.
Herring, William, farmer, Sec. 23; P. O. Norwalk.
Huff, J. B., farmer, Sec. 11; P. O. Norwalk.
Hughes, Amos, farmer, Sec. 26; P. O. Norwalk.
Hull, Phillip, farmer, Sec. 4; P. O. Norwalk.
J
OHNSON, JACOB, farmer, Sec. 33; P. O. Lothrop.
K ELLAR, H., farmer, Sec. 10; P. O. Lothrop; was born in Washington City, D. C., in the year 1816; his parents removed to Ohio when he was quite young, and in 1871 he came from there to this State; he was married to Miss C. A. Miller, a native of Shenandoah connty, Virginia, and has a family of six children liv- ing: John F., Nancy E. (now the wife of James Coffey, of Ohio), Virginia (wife of Thomas Davis), Henderson, Thomas, and W. C .; he owns a farm of 170 acres. His son, John F., enlisted in the late war, in the State of Ohio, in the fall of 1863, and served till its close. Mr. Kellar was ordained a minister of the gospel, March 24, 1862, by Bishop Edward R. Ames, of the M. E. Church.
Kern, John, farmer, Sec. 24; P. O. Norwalk.
King, Bernard, farmer, Sec. 31; P. O. Lothrop.
KLEMM, JOHN, farmer, Sec. 14; P. O. Norwalk; is a native of
740
DIRECTORY OF WARREN COUNTY.
Germany; born Feb. 19, 1815, and came to the United States in 1843; he first lived in Ohio till 1855, when he came to this county; he was married in Germany, to Mrs. Barbara Grassman, in the year 1840; have one son and one daughter: Barbara, born in Baden, Germany, and John, born in Pike county, Ohio, and was married to Miss Anna Hansman, of Des Moines, April 10, 1877; have one adopted son, George L .; he has a farm of 220 acres finely improved. KNIGHT, J. F., farmer, Sec. 8; P. O. Des Moines; born in the State of West Virginia, in the year 1835, and was raised there and made it his home till he came to Illinois, in 1865, where he lived for about two years, and came to this county in the spring of 1867; he was married in Illinois to Miss M. A. Callison, a native of West Virginia, Dec. 25, 1866; they have a family of six children liv- ing: Eddie, George N., Harvey and Jennie E .; is justice of the peace, and owns an improved farm of eighty acres.
Knouf, Samuel, farmer, Sec. 5; P. O. Des Moines.
KNOUF, HENRY, farmer, Sec. 4; is a native of Bedford county, Penn., born March 17, 1822, and was married to Miss Maria Cook, a native of Pennsylvania, in the year 1845, and came to this conn- ty in the fall of 1876; they have a family of eight children living: John, Samuel, Matilda C., George, Jackson, Augusta B., Simon and Martha; owns a farm of 119 acres.
L ANG. D. R., farmer, Sec. 2; P. O. Norwalk.
Lane, Josephine, farmer, Sec. 19; P. O. Commerce.
Lea, Zacchens, farmer, Sec. 18; P. O. Norwalk.
Lympis, David, farmer, Sec. 25; P. O. Norwalk.
Lympis, J. and W., farmers, Sec. 25; P. O. Norwalk.
M cCAHEN, JOHN, farmer, Sec. 34; P. O. Lothrop. McCain, James, farmer, Sec. 4; P. O. Des Moines.
McClain, Nathaniel, farmer, Sec. 34; P. O. Lothrop.
McClung, F. B., farmer, Sec. 4; P. O. Des Moines.
McClusker, Edward, farmer, Sec. 33; P. O. Lothrop.
McELIVEE, NEAL, farmer, Sec. 34; P. O. Lothrop; was born in Ireland, in the year 1820, May 20, and came to America June, 1850, and to this county, in 1856; he was married to Miss Sophia McElivee, a native of Ireland, in 1850; they have a family of four sons and three daughters: Jolin, Daniel P., E. F., E. L., Mary, Grace and Cecelia C .; he owns 178 acres of land; his son Daniel P., is a graduate of the Mercantile College at Des Moines, and he is now in the employ of the firm of Watt & Cochran, of that city.
McLAIN, NATHANIEL, farmer, Sec. 34; P. O. Lothrop; was born in Rockbridge county, Virginia, in 1822, and lived there till four- teen years old, then emigrated with his parents to Ohio, where he lived till October, 1849, when he came to this county; he married while in Olio, Elizabeth Ritchebaugh, in 1844, a native of that State; they have a family of two sons- and three daughters living: Har- rison, Samuel, Phoebe, Mary A. and .Sarah J .; has a farm of 157 acres; had one son, John W., he enlisted in the late rebellion un- der Captain Curran, in the Sev- enth Iowa regiment, and was dis- charged on the account of disa- bility, and has since died.
McLees, John, farmer, Sec. 22; P. O. Norwalk.
McManns, Bridget, farmer, Sec. 30; P. O. Lothrop.
741
LINN TOWNSHIP.
McNerney, Patrick, farmer, Sec. 18; P. O. Des Moines.
Maguire, R., farmer, Sec. 4; P. O. Commerce.
Mapole, Isaiah, farmer, Sec. 2; P. O. Des Moines.
MILLER, MRS. MARY C., farmer, Sec. 24, P. O. Norwalk; widow of Abranı T. Miller, deceased, a na- tive of Fountain county, Indiana; born Febuary 14, 1827, and died May 6, 1875; he came to this county and settled in the fall of 1855; Mrs. Miller, whose maiden name was Mary C. Cook, is also a native of Indiana; born May 1, 1837, and was married to her hus- band August 31, 1854; she has a family of five children living: Clara, William S., Emma J., Ma- ry F. and Grace De; one deceased, Saralı E., who died May 6, 1875; she owns a finely improved farm of 520 acres.
Miller, John, farmer, Sec. 13; P. O. Norwalk.
Miller, Eli H., farmer, Sec. 10; P. O. Norwalk.
Miller, Robert A., farmer, Sec. 10; P. O. Norwalk.
MILLER, DR. W. L., physician and surgeon, P. O. Norwalk; is a native of Marion county; West Virginia; born in the year 1846, February 24th, and emigrated with his parents to Adams county Illinois, when eight years old, and lived there till May, 1874, when he came to this county; he was married September 26, 1871, to Miss Nancy Prutzman, a native of Illinois, born December 25, 1849; they have one daughter, Hattie E., born May 23d, 1873; he received his early education in Illinois, and his collegiate course was taken at Keokuk, Iowa, and St. Louis, Missouri; during the late war, he was steward in the hospital from 1862 till 1864 when he enlisted in Co. A, of One
Hundred and Thirty-seventh Illi- nois Infantry, and served till the close of the war.
Misner, William H., farmer, Sec. 18: P. O. Commerce.
Moran, Michael, farmer, Sec. 7; P. O. Commerce.
Murray, Peter, farmer, Sec. 29; P. O. Norwalk.
N TOON, DOMRICH, farmer, Sec. 22; P. O. Norwalk.
P ATTERSON, JOSEPH, far- mer, Sec. 9; P. O. Norwalk.
Porter, Phebe, J., farmer, Sec. 10; P. O. Norwalk.
Prutzman, John, farmer, Sec. 3; P. O. Norwalk.
R EEVES, SAMUEL, farmer, L Sec. 25; P. O. Norwalk.
RUSS, JOHN, farmer, Sec. 21; P. O. Norwalk; born in Germany, in the year 1844, and came to America in the year 1873, and to this county the same year; he was married in Germany, to Miss . Weibke Selk, a native of that country, in the year 1871; tliey have a family of five children; Margaret, born in Germany, Ma- ry, Henry, Louis and Willie; he was a soldier in the Franco-Prus- sian war, and was at the siege of Strasburg.
Ryan, Edmund, farmer, Sec. 31; P. O. Lothrop.
S' EASE, JOSHUA, farmer, Sec. 13; P. O. Norwalk.
Simmons, Bart., farmer, Sec. 36; P. O. Norwalk.
Simmons, William, farmer, Sec. 36; P. O. Norwalk.
SMITH, SAMUEL, farmer, Sec. 16; P. O. Lothrop; is a native of Kentucky; born in Henderson county, October 26, 1816; he em- igrated, while a child, with his parents to Illinois, in Hamilton connty, where he remained till about ten years old, when he re- moved to Schuyler connty, Illi- nois, and remained till 1833,
.
46
742
DIRECTORY OF WARREN COUNTY.
when he came to Burlington, this State, and lived for a short time; then to Henry county, and lived about eighteen years, and to this county in 1856; was first married to Hannah Watters, a native of Indiana, in 1837; who died in 1852; by this marriage they have three children living: Joel, Elias, and B. F .; his second marriage was to Mrs. Mary J. Herring. a native of Pennsyl- vania, in 1854; have one son, Car- oline B .; Mr. Smith enlisted in - the Black Hawk war in 1832, June 6, and served till its close; has been justice of the peace for five years; went to California in 1850, and to Oregon in 1866, and crossed the plains with ox teams. Smith, C. B., farmer, Sec. 16; P. O. Norwalk.
Smith, Jackson, farmer, Sec. 19; P. O. Des Moines.
SMITH, JOSIAH, farmer, Sec. 19; P. O. Commerce, born in Rock- ingham county, Virginia, in 1817, October 5, and lived there till 1852, when he came to Illinois, and lived there till he came to this county, in 1865; he was mar- ried to Miss Barbara Campbell, a native of Virginia, in the year 1839; they have a family of six children, living: Elizabeth J., Francis, Josephine, Jackson, Amanda, and Clara Isabella; he owns a farm of 600 acres; his son Jackson, born in Virginia, in September, 1857, was married to Rose Ann Durigan, a native of Illinois, in the year 1873; they have a family of three children: Arthur D., Barbara A., and Lu- cretia J.
Snyder, J. N., farmer, Sec. 2; P. O. Norwalk.
Snyder, A. D., farmer, Sec. 14; P. O. Norwalk.
Snyder, Jackson, farmer, Sec. 25; P. O. Norwalk.
Spring, Samuel, farmer, Sec. 1; P. O. Norwalk.
Stiffler, George, farmer, Sec. 1; P. O. Norwalk.
Stiffler, Adam, farmer, Sec. 13; P. O. Norwalk.
Stoltz, Daniel, farmer, Sec. 27; P. O. Norwalk.
Swan, William H., farmer, Sec. 20; P. O. Norwalk.
T
HOMSON, JOHN, farmer, Sec. 35; P. O. Lothrop.
THOMPSON, JOHN, farmer, Sec. 9; P. O. Norwalk; a native of Ross county, Ohio; born Novem- ber 2, 1832, and was raised there; came to Des Moines November 2, 1854, and shortly after he engaged in the mercantile business, and continued in it till July 1866, when, on account of poor health, he was compelled to give it up, and through advice of his physi- cians lie returned to his old home in Ohio, to attend the Sulphur Springs, and after six months he came back to Des Moines, Febru -- ary 20, 1867, and in May, the same year, he came to his present home, in Linn township, and since that time lias followed farming, very - successfully; he was first married in Ohio, August 30, 1854, to Miss Patience C. Breedlove, who died June 6, 1857, in Ross county, and left one daughter, Patience E. A .; he was married to his present wife, whose maiden name was Marian A., daughter of James Crane, of Polk county, December 30, 1858; they have a family of five sons and four daughters, living: Emma C., John E., Charles A., Edward E., Minnie M., James, Frank M., Ida B., Nellie, and one deceased; he has held the office of justice of the peace for six years.
UT TZLER, J. M., farmer, Sec. 36; P. O. Norwalk.
W AGNER, HENRY, farmer, Sec. 27; P. O. Norwalk.
·
743
LINN TOWNSHIP.
WAGNER, MRS. MARY A., farm- er, Sec. 27; P. O. Norwalk; widow of Jacob Wagner, deceased, who was born in Pennsylvania in 1803, and came to Warren county in June, 1848; Mrs. Wagner is a na- tive of Germany; born August 20, 1830, and came to America, in 1857; she was married to her hus- band in 1859; has a family of five children: Mary, Catharine, Dan- iel, John and Eminel; Mr. Wag- ner was married first to Susannah Eberhart, deceased, a native of Pennsylvania; left a family of eleven children: Benjamin, Wil- liam, Sarah, Jacob, Susanna, Hen- ry, Gideon, Polly, Lucinda, Ma- linda and Edward; owns a farm of 175 acres.
WALDRIP, J. W., blacksmith, Norwalk; is a native of this State, born in Wapello county, Feb. 10, 1849, and is one among the first native born Hawkeyes; his pa- rents removed to Jasper county, when he was a child, and he was raised there, and came to this county in 1867; he married Miss Eva A. Bruce, a native of Ohio, in 1870; they have one son, born Feb. 8, 1875.
Waldrip, John, Sec. 13; P. O. Nor- walk.
Warren, E. S., farmer, Sec. 14; P. O. Norwalk.
Watkins, James, farmer, Sec. 11; P. O. Norwalk.
Weaver, Geo. W., farmer, Sec. 9; P. O. Norwalk.
WEIL, CASPER, farmer, Sec. 32; P. O. Lothrop; is a native of Ger- many; born April 15, 1816, and came to the State of Ohio, in
1848, and lived there till he came to this State, and first stopped in Mahaska county for a few months, then to Madison county, and re- mained till he came to this county, in the spring of 1859; he was married in Ohio to Catharine Armbreast, a native of Alsace,then under the French government, but now belongs to Germany; they have a family of six sons living: Joseph M., Edward, Charles F., Peter J., John C., and Conrad C .; three sons and two daughters de- ceased; owns a farm of 600 acres. WELTY, EPHRAIM, physician and surgeon, Norwalk; is a native of Hocking county, Ohio; born July 7, 1840, and lived there till 1876, when he came to his pres- ent location in this county; he re- ceived his early education in his native county, and his medical ed- ucation in his native State; he was married in the year 1868 to Miss Ellen Branstitter, a native of Allen county, Ohio; they have one son, born in Allen county, Ohio, Nov. 23, 1869; he enlisted in the late war, August 17, 1862, in Co. G, 114th Ohio Infantry, and was discharged on account of disability, November, 6, 1863; was in Sherman's defeat, at Chick- asaw Bluffs, Miss., Dec. 28, 1862. Wheeler, W. M., farmer, Sec. 25; P. O. Norwalk.
White, George H., Sec. 13; P. O. Norwalk.
Wilkinson. John, farmer, Sec. 36; P. O. Norwalk.
Wykoff, C. H., farmer, Sec. 1; P. O. Norwalk.
Need help finding more records? Try our genealogical records directory which has more than 1 million sources to help you more easily locate the available records.