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TDEN, JOHN, farmer; Sec. 5; P. O. Riverside; was born in Lon- den county, Virginia, in 1827, and is the son of Alfred and Mary A. Iden; the family moved to Perry county, Ohio, where the subject of this sketch was raised on a farm; he came to this county first in 1846, and entered his land in 1853; he came to this county without means, and to use his own language he was " bareheaded and barefooted"; he now owns a fine farm of 480 acres, well improved; he was present at the organization of the township and voted at the first election; he married Miss Susanna Younkin in 1858; she was a native of Perry county, Ohio; they have a family of seven children: Minerva J., D. W., G. M., Margaret A., Luella B., Jo- anna, and Mary C.,
L' ETTS, DAVID G., farmer; Sec. 31; P. O. Ainsworth; was born in La Salle county, Illinois, Decem- ber 19, 1843; when ten years of age his father (who was born March 17, 1818), moved to Monmouth, same State; his mother died in 1851; in 1854 they came to Louisa county, Iowa, and here the subject of this sketch was raised a farmer; the 42
father is still living in that county; in 1870 he came upon his present farm of 800 acres, all of which was improved by himself; has an orchard of four hundred apple trees and a large quantity of small fruit also; his premises are decorated with over 200 evergreens; has 3,000 Eu- ropean larches; during the late war he enlisted in company H, Forty- fifth Iowa volunteer infantry and served four months; in 1871 he was married to Miss Hannah G. Dickin- son, a native of Muscatine county, Iowa, born July 11, 1846; they have a family of four children: Madison L., born June 10, 1873; Freddie, born April 26, 1875; Clarence F., born December 14, 1877, and Emma F., born May 25, 1879; Mrs. Letts' parents are still living in Muscatine county; Mr. Letts is a member of the board of supervisors, having been elected in 1878.
N ICOLA, Z., farmer; Sec. 19; P. O. Riverside; was born in Virginia, in 1836; when thirteen years of age his parents moved to Pennsylvania, and after remaining there for two years went to Wayne county, Ohio; made that county his home until 1855, when he came to this county; in 1873 he moved on his present farm of 105 acres, upon which he has an orchard and a good comfortable home; in 1859 he was married to Miss Mary E. Kinsey, a native of Kentucky; their family consists of four children: Amos, Benjamin, Charles and Daniel; Mr. Nicola is a member of the Advent Church.
SANDS, E. T., farmer; Sec. 32; P. O. Ainsworth; was born in Pennsylvania in 1823, and is the son of Robert and Mary Sands, and when he was three years of age was taken by his parents to Harrison county, Ohio, where he was raised a farmer; he came to this county in April, 1856, and settled on his present farm containing 290 acres, and is
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one of the oldest settlers in the town- ship; he was married in 1844 to Miss Mary A. McFadden, a native of Ohio, born in 1823; they have a family of three children living: Robert, Alrid and Benjamin; lost one daughter: Margaret.
W HITE, E. W., farmer; Sec. 28; P. O. Ainsworth; was born in Beaver county, Pennsylvania, May 2, 1830, and was there raised a farmer; in 1852, when twenty-two years of age, he visited the gold fields of California and after remaining there until 1856 returned to Penn- sylvania, the trip having proved to
be successful; in 1865 he settled on his present farm of 800 acres; has 800 apple trees, 3000 evergreens, and 14 acres of timber; October 22, 1857, he was united in marriage with Louisa Cunningham, daughter ot Dr. Robert Cunningham, of Pennsylvania; she was born March 3, 1834; they have a family of nine children: Lillie (now Mrs. Stone), Flora, Ida, Mary J., James R., Rob- ert S., Harry A., Eva I., and Luel- len; Mr. White's father was of Irish descent and his mother of English ancestry; Mrs. W. is of Irish and Scotch ancestry.
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A DAMS, FRANKLIN, farmer and stock-raiser; Sec. 34; P. O. Wellman; was born in Ohio June 2, 1846, and was raised there and re- ceived his early education in the schools of that county; in 1863 he came to this county; in the spring of 1864 he enlisted in the late war, in company G, Sixth Iowa veteran volunteers, and was mnstered out July, 1865, and returned to this county; he was married December 14, 1865, to Miss Mary J. Long- well; they have by this nnion a fami- ly of eight children: Hattie A., Chas. E., Fannie L., Jessie E., Mag- gie C., Laura B., Henry J., and Rachel E .; Mrs. Adams was born in Morgan county, Ohio, May 29, 1845, and came to this county with her pa- rents when only seven years of age.
ASHBY, E. W. H., farmer; Sec. 28; P. O. Richmond; was born De- cember 1, 1834, in Preston county, Virginia; his parents came to Ohio in 1836, and to Iowa in 1839, loca- ting in Washington township; here he was raised and received his edu cation; he came to his present farm in 1861, which consists of 460 acres of well improved land; is an exten- sive raiser and feeder, and has as fine sheep as there are in the county or
State; he has been frequently elected to township offices, but would never qualify; he was married August 21, 1860 to Miss Elizabeth Ihrig, a na- tive of Wayne county, Ohio; they have seven children: Viola A., Jes- sie J., Bessie B., Ralph M., Cliarles M., Pressie E., and Alma H., all liv- ing.
B EARDSLEY, WILLIAM, of the firm of Beardsley & Gemmill, merchants, Wellman; the subject of this sketch was born March 31, 1839, in Monroe, Michi- gan; at the age of fourteen years he went to Toledo, Ohio, and began clerking for the Wright Bros., ship chandlers; there he remained about one year, and then came to Chicago and went into the forwarding com- mission honse of Clark & Palmer, where he remained two years; he was then with the American Trans- portation Company, and following other pursuits till 1858, when he came to Muscatine, Iowa, and went into the horticultural and nur- sery business with Suel Foster, with whom he remained till August 15, 1862, at which time he enlisted in company E, Eighteenth Iowa in- fantry, in which he was promoted to sergeant; he served to the close of
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the war and was discharged the last of Angust, 1865; he served most of the time on the western frontier and saw a great many hungry days on account of the short supply of hard- tack, etc .; at the battles of Spring- field, Missouri, and Saline river were the principal battles in which they were engaged, although they did a great deal of skirmishing, in which they suffered almost as much as in larger battles; when he re- turned from the army he engaged in the grocery business in Musca- tine, Iowa, in the firm of Lillibridge & Beardsley, and one year later the firm was changed to Beardsley & Meckling; in 1874 they moved to Riverside and put in the first stock of goods that was put in the town; he was commissioned postmaster at that time, which office he held till the fall of 1879; he organized the A. F. & A. M. lodge at Riverside, of which he was elected W. M. for four terms; he has often been the delegate to the Grand Lodge; he also belongs to the "chapter" and "commandery"; November 16, 1879, the firm was changed to Beardsley & Gemmill, and keeping pace with the times and opportunities they moved to Wellman and put in the first stock in this town; his qualifications as a business man are evidenced by the success that has attended his business career; he was married in April, 1865, to Miss Aralımiel Hines, a native Hawkeye, having been born in Muscatine; their fami- ly consists of five children: Jessie, Lyman, Olive, Wm. and Bertha, all living.
BILLINGSLEY, CYRUS, far- mer; Sec. 33; P. O. Richmond; was born July 16, 1835, in Monongalia county, West Virginia; at the age of fifteen his parents removed to this county and settled in English River township; he was raised on a farm and educated in the common schools; he came to his present farm, which
now consists of 349 acres, in 1870, and has since lived here; he has held the office of township trustee two terms and also elected assessor, but refused to serve; he has now retired from farming, renting his and, and will soon move to River- side in this county; he was married July 18, 1860, to Miss Margaret J. Stinson, a native of Ohio; they have a family of ten children: Samuel W., Carrie A., Ella, Geo. F., Ida L., Cora A., Anna S. and Win. R. liv- ing and one deceased.
BLANDIN, J. F., farmer and stock-raiser; Sec. 14; P. O. Well- Inan; he was born in Steuben coun- ty, New York, July 23, 1846; at the age of four years he emigrated with his parents to Wisconsin, where he commenced school and remained there until the spring of 1859; he then went to Illinois where he re- mained about one year, and in April, 1860, emigrated to Washington county, Iowa, where he still resides; his farm consists of eighty acres of fine land, and is nicely fenced with hedge and rail; was married October 2, 1873, to Miss Artie I. Waters; by this union they have two children: Walter J., born July 20, 1874, and Olive L., born December 16, 1875; he enlisted in company D, Ninth Iowa cavalry, and was mustered in November 30, 1863, at Davenport, Iowa, and in December, 1863, went to St. Louis and from there went to Arkansas where they were detailed as scouts and mail-carriers, where he remained till the spring of 1866, when he was mustered out; he then returned to Washington county, Iowa.
C LARK, G. H., hardware mer- chant, Wellman; was born. in New Portland, Maine, September 17, 1829; there he grew to manhood and was educated in the common schools and Kent's Hill Seminary; he came to Iowa in 1864 and located in Iowa City, where he went into
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the grocery business, which he con- tinued about one year, when he bought a stock of goods and hauled them overland to Virginia City, Montana; there he opened a store and remaincd abont eighteen months, when he returned to Iowa City and bought a half interest in the Eagle flouring mills of that place, in which he remained about two years; he then went into the boot and shoe trade with Hugh Tay- lor in Iowa City, and in this re- mained one year; in the fall of 1874 he went to Riverside, this county, where he went into the hardware and implement business with Mr. Fesler; there he remained till the fall of 1879, when he came to the town of Wellman and built him a commodious room and opened a full line of hardware and agricultural implements; his was the first store- room finished in the town, although there were several others under way at the same time; in 1851 he went to California by way of New York, and remained there three years, spending the most of his time in the mines, making it pay very well; on his return home he went to mer- chandising in New Portland, Maine, where he remained about eight years; he was married November 20, 1854, to Miss Laura A. Plum- mer, a native of Maine; they have two children: Charies A. and Georgia E., both living.
D OWNING, W. A., of the firm of Downing Bros., mer- chants, Wellman, and livery and feed stables, Washington; was born March 15, 1828, in Bartholomew county, Indiana, and was there raised on a farm and educated in the public schools, and at the age of eighteen he learned the carpenter's trade, at which he worked for about twelve years; in 1857 he located in Wassonville, this township, where he engaged in farming and stock- raising, which he continued for two
years; in 1860 lie moved to the town of Dayton and formed a part- nership with his brother, Thomas H. Downing, in the mercantile and stock business; January 1, 1880, they moved their stock of merchandise to Wellman, and also established a livery stable at that place; they own about 550 acres of farm land that they manage them- selves; they are the largest stock- raisers in the township; they are also engaged extensively in shipping stock; he has been twice married: first January 1, 1853, to Miss Sarah A. Haviouse, of Indiana, who died August 27, 1859, and left three chil- dren: John R., Eliza (wife of J. H. Skaggs, of this place), living, and one deceased; was married again November 28, 1861, to Miss M. E. Blandon, of New York State; they have six children: Wm. L., Alma, Minnie, Blanche, Hallah, living, and an infant deceased.
F ELLMAN, FRED. (of firm of Singleman & Fellman, millers); he was born January 29, 1834, in Switzerland; he was raised there, and educated in the comnion and high schools of Berne; at the age of 16 he learned the milling business with his father, with whom he re- mained a few years, when he went to France, where he remained three years; in 1859 he came to the United States, locating in Ohio, where he remained about three years; he en- listed in October, 1862, in company B, Fifth Iowa cavalry, and served to the close of the war; he was slightly wounded at Pulaski, Ten- nessee, by a shell; he served to the close of the war, and was discharged in May, 1865; in 1867 he came to this county, and went to work for Mahaffa, and has continued in the mill since; in 1875 he and Mr. Sin- gleman bought the mill, and have owned it ever since; it was built in 1840, by Jo. Wasson and Dr. Waters, two of the oldest settlers of the
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township; he was married in Sep- tember, 1870, to Miss Mary Seh- frokey, a native of Bohemia; she died in September, 1871, leaving one child: Frederick, living; again in July, 1873, to Miss Anna Prosky, a native of Bohemia; they have three chil- dren living: Anna, Mary and John: one deceased.
EMMILL, J. W., of firm of G Beardsley & Gemmill, mer- chants, Wellman; was born Septemn- ber 3, 1844, in Clinton connty, Penn- sylvania; his parents moved to Cen- tre county, in 1845, and to Mifflin county in 1854, where he lived till 1859, when he went to Washington, D. C., and remained there till 1862, when he returned to Mifflin county; in. February, 1865, he enlisted in company E, Thirteenth Pennsylvania cavalry; he served to the close of the war, and was discharged at Phil- adelphia, in June, 1865; after his discharge he went to Baltimore, where he engaged in the retail gro- cery trade, which he continued till 1869, when he came South English, Keokuk county; there he taught school and farmed for one year, when he came to Washington, and went into the agricultural implement house of McNair & Co., and after eighteen months engaged with Wil- liam Wilson in the hardware busi- ness; in 1875 he went into partner- ship with Mr. Wilson, and opened a hardware store at Riverside; in No- weinber, 1879, he formed a partner- ship with Mr. Beardsley, and opened out a general store at Wellman, being among the first to open a store in the new town; he was married to Miss Mary E. Hines, who was born in Muscatine county, Iowa; they have one son living: Wm. H.
GLIDER, HENRY, restaurnat, billiard and saloon-keeper. Wellinan; was born in Frie county, New York, October 28, 1834; at the age of six years he commenced going to school and continued until 14, when he
commenced farming; followed that for a term of years; in 1861 he an- swered his country's call, and en- listed in company C, Eighth Iowa volunteer infantry; served till the close of the war, and was in a num- ber of hard-fought battles; he was honorably discharged at Davenport, when he came back and settled down as a private citizen, and has since resided here.
H EWETT, WM. L., retired farmer, Daytonville; he was born April 28, 1813, in the State of New York; he was raised on a farm and educated in the common school; at the age of twenty-four he learned the carpenter's trade, at which he worked several years; in 1836 he came to Ohio where he lived three years, then to Illinois where he lived one year, and in 1840 came to Iowa and located on section 8, of this township, where he owns 500 acres of land; in 1876 he built a fine resi- dence in Daytonville and retired from his farm, renting his lands, that he might pass a quieter life in his old age; he is one of the oldest settlers of the township; in 1851 he built the mills, now know as Men- dona Mills on English river; he has been thrice married, first in Septem- ber, 1838, to Miss Lodicea Over- baugh, a native of Ohio, who died August 27, 1839, leaving one child, deceased; again in May 1842, to Miss Sarah Brink, a native of Ohio; she died in February, 1843, leaving one child; Sarah, (wife of Chancy Margriette); again June 10, 1849, to Miss Eliza- beth Robertson, a native of Indiana; she died September 3, 1879, leaving three children: Mary A. (wife of J. E. Crawford), Eliza I. (wife of Wm. Carr), and Elizabeth who has been blind several years.
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mer; Sec. 31; P. O. Wellman; was born April 26, 1813, in Massa- chusetts; he there grew to manhood
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and was educated in the common school; his great-grandfather was one of the first men to burn the tea in Boston harbor; in 1826 he went to sea and lived a sailor's life for twenty-one years; he then moved to Maine and bought a farm, where lie lived till 1865, when he came to Iowa and located where he now lives and owns a farm of 156 acres of well improved land; has followed farming and stock raising since he has been in Iowa; his danghter has one of the finest heneries in the county-Buff, White, Partridge and Cinnamon Cochin chickens and Imperial and Pekin ducks; he was married July 14, 1841, to Miss Eunice Fernal, a native of Maine; she died Jnne 8, 1869, leaving nine children: Wm. P., Harriet G. (wife of Nathan H. Newcomb), Ed. T., Fannie T., Maria L., Charles T. and Margaret A. living; and two de- ceased.
K ING, J. R., merchant, Well- man; was born February 3, 1820, in Nelson county, Kentucky; his educational advantages were poor, consequently his education is limited; at twenty years of age he learned the cabinet trade with Felix Rogers of Bardstown, Kentucky; at this he worked for five years; after this he flat boated and worked at carpenter- ing till 1846, when he came to this county and to Wassonville in 1847, and engaged in the grocery business, with a capital stock of 140 dollars, and sold the first goods in the county, and followed the business till November 1, 1879, at the same place, except eighteen months dur- ing the war; November 1, 1879. he moved to Wellman; he is the oldest merchant in the county, and from his small capital has laid up a rea- sonable competency, besides his residence and store property; he owns 200 acres of land and also a house and lot in Iowa City; Octo- per 31, 1848, he was married to Miss
Mary C. Ray, of Jefferson county, Ohio; they have two children living: S. Lyde and Ida I. (wife of Dr. J. H. Wait, of Harlan, Iowa), and two sons deceased; Miss Lyde keeps a millinery and dress making estab- lishment, in her father's store.
LHIGH EIGHTON, ISAAC, farmers Sec. 26; P. O. Wellman; was born July 30, 1811, in Kennebec county, Maine; there he grew to manhood on a farm; he was educated in common schools; he learned brick- laying while a boy, which he has followed most all his life; in 1839 he came to Webster, New York, and to this connty in 1843 and lo- cated where he now lives, entering his land from the government; he is one of the oldest settlers of the township and enjoys the confidence of his neighbors; he has been township trustee more than half the time since he came to the county; he was inar- ried July 4, 1838, to Miss Permelia Lancaster, of Maine; have eight children: Charlotta (wife of E. W. Carpenter), Stephen T., Mariam J. (wife of T. J. Allen), Alice J. (wife Daniel Wolf), Delphena A., and three dead.
LEWIS, S. W., druggist, Well- man; the subject of this sketch was born Angust 10, 1854, in Cattaraugus county, New York: his parents came to Iowa and located at Washington, this county, where he grew to mall- hood, and was educated in the Wash- ington schools; at the age of seven- teen he began the study of medicine with Dr. Miles of Washington; this he continued irregularly for about two years, after which he went to Riverside and associated himself with Dr. Wm. & D. W. Ott, in the drug business, where he remained about five years; in October 1879 he came to Wellman and established a drug store and sold the first goods that were sold in the town; he holds the office of notary public and has done most of that business for the
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town; he was married May 24, 1877, to Miss Mary (daughter of Dr. J. D.) Miles, of Washington; have two children: Mary Etta and Jessie, the first child born in Wellman on February 10, 1880; he also has a circulating library.
M OCLEERY, R. J., of firm of McCleery & Son, mer- chants, Wellman; he was born April 30, 1850, in Wayne county, Ohio; in 1852 his parents came to De Kalb county, Illinois; there he was raised on a farm; he was educated in the common schools and Grandview, Louisa and Washington colleges and Burling- ton Commercial School; he traveled on the road for Hargus & Simmons of Quincy, Illinois, about five years and for H. C. Graves of Sandwich, Illinois, handling nursery stock, about one year; he came to this town in the fall of 1879 and in con- nection with his father opened a general store; he was married Jan- nary 1, 1879, to Miss Ida Ball, a na- tive of this county; have one child, born February 26, 1880; not named.
MAPLE, JOHN S., proprietor Mendona Mills; P. O. Daytonville; was born Angnst 22, 1810, in Greene county, Pennsylvania; he learned the miller's trade at the age of twenty-one, with H. Royer, in West Virginia; he followed his trade for sixteen years; in 1846 he came to this township locating on a farm where he lived till 1863; he moved to Sigourney, Keoknk county, in 1864, where he engaged in the hotel business in the old Sigourney House; after four years he traded his hotel for a farm in this township and farmed till 1865 when he bought half an interest in his present mill property, which consists of the mill and twenty-six acres of land; he has held all the offices of the township; he was married June 3, 1834, to Mary B. Smith, a native of West Virginia; have ten chil-
dren: Cyrns B., Samuel S., Simon G., Isabel (wife of Abram Bunkie, of Washington). Malissa (wife of James Mckinley), Mary E. (wife of James Carlile), Martha A. (wife of Elias Temple), and Hannah E., liv- ing, and two sons deceased; his mill was built in 1851 by W. L. Hewett. MARQUAM, WILLIAM E., farmer; Sec. 33; P. O. Richmond; was born March 31, 1809, in Mary- land; at the age of nineteen his pa- rents moved to Ohio; he was raised on a farm and educated in the com- mon schools; he moved to Indiana in 1831, and to Caldwell county, Missonri, in 1838, where he engaged in farming; abont 1850 he opened ont a store in Mirabile, in that county, a town he had laid ont; here he sold goods till 1858, at which time he sold ont; in 1861 he again en- gaged in the mercantile trade, which he continued about two years; he came to this State in 1864 and loca- ted in Waverly, Bremer county, where he lived two years, and came' to this county in 1866 and located on his present farm of 160 acres, which he has well stocked; he was married in February, 1837, to Miss Jane C. Cochran, a native of Ohio; they have a family of eight children: Pamelia (wife of J. H. Ihrig, of this township), William H., Allen, John, Edward, Maria J., and Mary living, and one deceased.
MILLHOUSE, H, farmer and stock-raiser; Sec. 17; P. O. Dayton- ville; was born in Germany, July 9, 1829; at the age of five he commenced school and remained there till theage of fourteen; he then commenced farming and continned the same nn- till he was twenty-two years of age when he enlisted in company Four, of Crabstine, where he served three years when he was honorably dis- charged; he then bonght a farm and lived on same till the spring of 1860 when he emigrated to America. land- ing in New York; he then emigra-
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ted to Washington county, Iowa, where he still lives; his farm con- sists of 160 acres all under cultiva- tion, and is nicely fenced with hedge and barb wire; he was married Oc- tober 1, 1827, to Miss Anna Schra- der, of Germany; by this union they have four children: Henry, John William, Mary, and Christiana; Jacob, Harry, and Elizabeth, de- ceased.
R ICKEY, WILLIAM, farmer; Sec. 33; P. O. Richmond; was born September 1, 1835, in Pickaway county, Ohio; in 1847 his parents came to this county and located in Clay township; in 1850 they moved to where he now lives; he was raised on a farm and educated in the com- mon schools; he enlisted August 20, 1862, in company I, Eighteenth in- fantry, and served till March 1863, when he was discharged on account of general disability; he was wounded in the hip in the skirmish of Eutonia, Missouri, October 8, 1862; he was married April 22, 1863, to Miss Mary A. Parker, a na- tive Hawkeye, being born in this township; they have seven children: Findley E., Millard Lincoln, Irvie D., Charles I., Rosa M., Ida O., liv- ing, and one infant deceased.
RIGGEN, J. A., physician and surgeon, Wellman, Iowa; was born October 29, 1841, in Knox county, Illinois; his parents moved to Mis- souri in September, 1859, where he grew to manhood and was educated in the common schools, and in June, 1861, enlisted as private in compa- ny C, Eighteenth Missouri infantry; in October, 1861, he was transferred to company A, of same regiment; he was promoted to corporal, sergeant, first sergeant, hospital steward, ser- geant-major, second lieutenant, first lieutenant, assistant quartermaster of his regiment, and at the close of the war to captain by brevet; he was mustered out of service August, 1865, at St. Louis, Missouri, where
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