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lived in Marshall township until 1900,
Johanna S. in 1881 married Chas. A. when they moved to North Dakota. Peterson, son of Peter Jonson. (See Tama married Thomas Jerome and Jonson).
lives at Laurens. William married Emma Fearheller and in 1899
Andrew G. (b. 1862; d. 1898) in 1877 came to Marshall township and in moved to North Dakota. Benjamin 1887 located on 80 acres, sec. 19 which died at 22 in 1900. Amy, an adopted daughter, is at home. The pretty evergreens at the Brockett home con- sisting of white pine, Scotch pine and several other varieties were planted by Wilbur Craig in 1891.
he improved, increased to 120 acres and occupied till his decease at 36 in 1898. In the spring of 1893 he moved to Pomeroy and the cyclone complete- ly demolished his home and furniture. Some of the members of his family were carried two blocks distant. His wife and three children were three weeks in the hospital at Sioux City, and he never recovered from the lung trouble that resulted from the ex- posure at that time. He taught school seven years in this county, Joseph S. and Dorcas D. (Wheeler) served as assessor of Marshall town- ship four years and was clerk when he died. He left a wife and four chil- dren; Evelyn, Dina, Mabel and Walter.
Ellen W. in 1890 married Axel Shold (b. Sweden 1857), who owns and occupies a farm of 80 acres in Swan Lake township and has two children; Edward and Melinda.
The family of John Blomberg was one of the first to locate in Marshall township and it may be noted that two brothers and one sister in it mar- ried two sisters and one brother in the family of Peter Jonson, who loca- ted in the township the same year. The descendants of these two families in connection with others that came later, now form a colony of very in- dustrious and successful Swedish farmers, who have improved their homes with cozy buildings and sur- rounded them with pretty groves.
Brockett William, owner and oc- cupant of 80 acres on the nw} sec. 15 from 1892 to 1900, is now a resident of Carroll county. His family consisted of six children. ITis eldest daughter
Craig Almaren F. (b. 1834), owner and occupant of a large and finely im- proved farm on the ne sec. 15, is a native of Farmington, Maine. His ancestors on his father's side were of Scotch descent, and of English on his mother's side. He was the son of Craig. In 1854, at the age of 20, he came to Muscatine county, Iowa, and taught school along the banks of the Mississippi before any railroad had been laid in Iowa. In November 1855 he married Marietta L. Butler, of Maine, and returned to Muscatine on a railroad that had been completed during his absence. During the next two years he occupied a farm near Muscatine and then lived fourteen in Cedar county. In 1868 he moved to Benton county and iu 1883 to his pres- ent farm, which he was the first to occupy and improve. His improve- ments rank among the first in the township. He taught school two years and served many years as
a justice in Marshall township.
His family consists of five children: Celia H. in 1883 married Chas. King, lives in Minnesota and has a fam- ily of six children; Etta, George, Ma- bel E., Linn, Louisa and John.
Wilbur E. in 1891 married Elizabeth Ryon, occupies a farm of 160 acres in Washington township, and has two children; Hattie and Alice.
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Louis B., a graduate of the Iowa have identified themselves with the State Agricultural College in 1894, noblest and best interests in the spent the next two years in the various communities in which they . Moody Institute, Chicago. have lived.
Mary E., a teacher, in 1901 married
His family consisted of two children, Albert A. Bunch who lives on his own one of whom, Mary H., died at his home at 31 in 1898.
farm in Marshall township.
Marietta E. is at home.
Rufus Erwin (b. N. Y. 1865) in 1887
Greene Rufus (b. 1830), the second married Frances Jane Kibble, a native settler in Marshall township and now a resident of Marathon, is a native of
of England, and, engaging in farming and teaching, continued to reside in Chatauqua county, N. Y. the son of Marshall township until 1895 when he Rufus and Mary Sheldon (Boltwood) moved to Sioux Rapids where he has Greene. In 1857 he married Kate since been engaged in market garden- Lois Gould (b. 1830) of Erie county, N. ing. He has one child, Francis Y. and engaged in farming. In 1871 Harold. he came to Pocahontas county and
Grund, Julius (b. 1852) the pioneer located on the Thornton, Greene & settler of the SE } Sec. 10, is a native Co. farm of 1920 acres with its build- of Germany, where in 1879 he married ings on section 18 Marshall township, and located on a farm. In 1885 he
then called North Dover. As the came to America and located on his outlook on this farm was quite dis- present farm, which he has finely im- couraging, he selected that fall a proved. He is an industrious worker, homestead of 160 acres on sec. 30, a good neighbor and has a family of which was beyond the railroad limits, three children.
and located on it in the spring of 1873.
Hawley, George (b.1843; d.1889), one He improved and occupied this home- of the first settlers in Marshall town- stead until 1892 when he moved to ship, was a native of Canada. In 1859 Marathon. When the company farm he moved to St. Lawrence county. N. was divided in 1879 he was the owner Y, where in 1865 he married Mary of 960 acres in Pocahontas and Buena Furness and located on a farm, Vista counties.
In 1880 he came to Marshall township
He received a good education in his and began to occupy the NW } Sec. 14, youth and during the greater part of moving into a hunter's shanty and a the period of his residence in Mar- sod stable that had been built on it by shall township was its most promi- some trappers. At this particular date nent citizen. During most of the the only other American family inthe period that territory was attached to township was that of Rufus Greene. Dover he served as a school director Mr. Hawley improved this farm with for that district and was the first one a fine dwelling house and other build- elected to serve as a justice, but did ings that are well adapted for handling not qualify. He took a leading part a large amount of stock. A few rods south of the house, there is a flowing well that is a source of great conven- in the organization of the township and served as one of its trustees from that date to the time of his removal ience. In 1888, leaving the farm in to Marathon. By his intelligence and charge of his son, Charles, he moved integrity he won the respect and con- to Rolfe and engaged in the livery fidence of all who had the pleasure of business until his decease at 47 in making his acquaintance. His estim- 1889. His wife returned to the farm, able wife presides over his home with but a few years later located at a queenly dignity, and both of them Laurens and in 1900 became the wife
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of James M. Mick. Mr. Hawley as- married Johanna S. Blomberg and has sisted in the organization of Marshall a family of seven children: Carl, township and served several years as Alma, Ida, Frantz, David, Elsa and one of its first trustees.
Arthur.
His family consisted of ten children. Louisa married Charles J. Blomberg Salome Agnes in 1890 married Alex- and Augusta married August W. ander Taylor, lives in Swan Lake Blomberg. (See Blomberg.) township and has one child, Law- rence.
Gustafva, in 1882 married Eric Aspholm and located on a farm in
Charles A. (b. 1869) in 1896 married Swan Lake township, where she died Molly Weaver. He occupied the old in 1895, leaving a family of six chil- home farm until 1900 when he moved dren: Emma, Minnie, Anna, Theo- to Des Moines. He was secretary of dore, Carrie and Albert.
the school board six years. He is now at the head of the commercial depart- west. ment in Central University at Pella.
Andrew G. Peterson located in the
Kibble, Richard, who occupied the He has two children, Gretchen and NW} Sec. 29 from 1885 to 1895, was a Sheldon A.
Frederick (b. 1870) in 1893 married
native of Gloucestershire, England.
In the fall of 1884 he visited his two Hettie Boekenoogen and, locating on sons, Richard D. and Percival, in his own farm on Sec. 11, occupied it Plymouth county, and his friend, J. until 1900 when he moved to the old C. Pegler, on Sec. 30, Marshall town- home farm. He is meeting with good ship. He was so favorably impressed success in raising thoroughbred hogs with the fertility and cheapness of and Short Horn cattle. He has one the lands in this section that he pur- child, Charles F.
chased 240 acres on section 29, Mar-
Esther in 1890 married George Tut- shall township. George F., a son tle, a poultry dealer at Laurens, and who accompanied him, remained has three children, Gordon, Leon and with his Warren.
brothers near LeMars, when he returned to England. The
Venia, a teacher, in 1899 married next spring, accompanied by his wife, Horace Cowan a telegraph operator Susanna Miles, and eight other chil- and lives at Sioux Rapids, Albert, dren, Reginald, Algernon A:, Septi- Hattie, May, Phronia and Seymour mus, Frank, Frances J., Ada J., Sus- live with their mother.
anna and Mary A., he came to this
Jonson, Peter, the pioneer occu- county and located in Marshall town- pant of 80 acres on Sec. 8, was a native ship. He improved and occupied the of Sweden where he married and lived farm on section 29, until 1895 when he until 1877, when with a family of wife, moved to Sioux Rapids. Ernest J. two sons and two daughters, he located another son who soon followed him to in Marshall township. He died in this country, is also a resident of Iowa.
Kintzley, William P., (b. 1859),
1879 and his wife lives with her son- in-law, Charles J. Blomberg. His owner and occupant of the NW} Sec. family consisted of six children.
36 since 1890, is a native of Story
John in 1873 located in Pennsylvania county, the son of Adolphus and Polly A. Kintzley. In 1882 he married Ella
and three years later in Calhoun county, Iowa. He isnow section fore- Hays and located at Ames, where, man at Barnum.
during the next seven years, he work- ed in the horticultural department of
Charles A. Peterson (second son of Peter Jonson) owns and occupies a the State Agricultural College. In farm on the SW} Sec. 8. In 1881 he 1890 he located on 80 acres on section
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36, Marshall township, that he had and prolific bearers; the fruit is good bought four years previous. He has for cooking and keeping; its size is increased this farm to 240 acres and above medium, and its color, a yellow the improvements on it are very con- tinge with pink blush on the side veniently arranged and fine in every next the sun. The Silken Leaf re- respect. sembles the Duchess, but flatter, and AN HORTICULTURIST. is also good for cooking. The Florence
W. P. Kintzley has here developed, and Whitney No. 20 are crabs that in an admirable manner, the advan- have not suffered from blight. The tages he enjoyed at the Agricultural Concord, Worden and Moore's Early, College and has one of the finest fruit the latter a shy bearer, take pre- farms in Pocahontas county. About cedence among fifteen varieties of grapes that have been planted. 20 acres have been set apart for fruit and forest trees. He began with a
Native plums are best for this small nursery that furnished a supply northern part of the state, the Wolfe, both for himself and a number of Wyant, De Soto and Rolling Stone
his neighbors. The encouraging yielding the best results, and the success that has attended his Chickasaws proving a disappointment. efforts to raise fruit is in a The Minor plum is large and excellent great measure due to the fact he had but, owing to its imperfect blossom, previously gained a thorough and is not sure to bear unless planted al- practical knowledge of the hardy, pro- ternately with other varieties.
ductive varieties that were suited to
Some of the essentials to successful this climate, planted only these and fruit culture in this section are the then took an intelligent care of the maintenance of a good fence, them. All the rows run north and planting only those varieties that south and to the visitor in autumn, have done well in it, the cultivation the sight of so many trees of the same of the soil, but so as not to injure variety, loaded with rosy cheeked ap- their roots, when the trees are young. ples, and of others covered with red, and an occasional application of white and blue plumbs, affords a manure to it when the tree begins to pleasure that is second only to that of being able to say, these are mine.
That others may enjoy the benefit of his matured and successful experience
bear. A low growth insures freedom fromn sun scald and lessens the expos- ure to the wind.
Mr. Kintzley has also a large num- in raising fruit in this county, we note ber of varieties of ornamental trees some of the things he regards as es- that include many kinds of evergreens sential and name some of the varieties such as Fir, White Spruce, Scotch, he commends as hardy and profitable Austrian and Mountain Dwarf Pines, in this locality.
the Laurel Willow, Wild Olive, etc.
His family consists of six children, Agnes, William, Mary, Eugene, Hat- tie and Hazel.
Three things are essential in a good variety, namely, that the tree be hardy, a good bearer and its fruit be valuable for use. The varieties of ap- ples commended are the Duchess, Wealthy, Longfield, Silken Leaf and
Lofquist Julius in 1886 located on 160 acres on sec. 20. He was the first to occupy and improve this land. He Romna. The last three are new died at 48 in 1892 leaving a wife and Russian varieties and he expresses five children, - Julius, Josephine, the belief that the Longfield will Augustus, Victor E , and Elmer.
McLain Alexander, owner and oc-
likely be the most profitable variety for this county. The trees are hardy cupant of a finely improved farm of
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280 acres on sec. 14, has been a resi- In 1867 he married Mary J. Bentley In and seven of their nine children are dent of the township since 1886. 1886, during his residence in Illinois, living. he married Eliza Ann, sister of A. J. Fred W. (b. 1868) in 1892 married Stover, and three years later located Minnie Marshall of Marshall county in Marshall township. He was the and occupies the SWI Sec. 25.
Arthur C. (b. 1871) married Nellie
first to occupy and improve his present farm and he has it now in a McLain, and Katie in 1894 married fine state of cultivation and provided Charles McLain. Both live in Clark county, S. D. with good and substantial buildings.
His family consisted of eight chil- dren.
William, Grace, Ernest and Edward are at home.
Phillips, Oliver Perry (b. 1815) the who owns and occupies a farm on first assessor of Marshall township, is sec. 6, Sherman township, which he a native of Chenango Co. N. Y. In was the first to improve.
his youth he located in Will Co., Ill.,
Charles married Catherine Moore where in 1840 he married Elizabeth and located on a farm on section 16, Dutton (b. 1823), a native of Cayuga Marshall township.
Frank, Maud and Nellie, teachers ;. of Pocahontas county since 1882 when Oliver, Earl and Joseph.
Co., N. Y. He has been a resident he located on Sec. 1, Marshall town-
Mitchell, William L. (b. 1847) ship. He participated in the organi- sheriff of Pocahontas county since zation of the township, serving as one 1900 and owner of the NE} Sec. 22, of the clerks on that occasion. He Marshall township since 1885, is a served three years as its first assessor, native of Ohio. He spent a part of and later three years as a justice. He his youth in Indiana and then came is now living in Swan Lake township. to Marshall county, Iowa, where in His family consisted of nine children, 1878 he married Emma Williams. In three of whom are living. Orson D. 1885 he began to occupy and improve is in southern Kansas. Ellen became his farm in Marshall township and the wife of W. F. Atkinson and lives since that date has become prominent- at Laurens. Edith E. married N.
ly associated with the history of the Morrison, who kept a hotel at Poca- township and county. He served hontas a number of years and now several years as a township trustee lives in Oklahoma. Mr. and Mrs. and is now serving his second term as Phillips were pioneers in the early sheriff.
settlement of Illinois, and were mar-
His first house was struck by light- ried in a log cabin, when eyen log ning in 1892 and again in 1893 when it cabins were not very numerous on the was burned. It was replaced by a frontier. Their 50th wedding anni- fine residence. He was quite success- versary was duly celebrated at the ful on the farm and has made a good home of their daughter at the Morri- record as a public officer. He moved son House, Pocahontas, November 19, to Pocahontas in 1900. 1890.
Moore, Nicholas (b. 1846) owner
Richey, Alfred Hammond, (b. 1860) and occupant of 160 acres on Sec. 23, is the first county supervisor from Mar- a native of Mahaska county. In 1858 shall township, is a native of Marshall he moved with his parents to Wright county, three years later to Marshall county and in 1892 to his present farm which he has finely improved. county, the son of John and Nancy Richey. In July 1886 he located in Marshall township. In 1890 he mar- ried Ada E., daughter of Wm. F.
:
Eva married G. Wallie Bellinger,
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Atkinson, whose farm he now occu- Thoma, Alvis A (b. 1862) who oc- pies. He has proven himself a man cupies the middle farm, in 1889 married worthy of public recognition. He Rosa Nace and has a family of three served for four years as assessor of children. the township and, in January 1897 re-
Thoma, Christ (b. 1866) who occu- ceiving an appointment to serve as a pies the north farm, in 1890 married county supervisor in place of Louie Alfreda Fix and has a family of three children.
Lange who resigned, he has since been twice elected to that office.
His family consists of two children, d. 1884), senior member of Thornton, Mildred and Dorothea.
Thornton Albert Mortimer(b. 1810; Greene & Co., was a native of Ver-
Scott, Lucian S. (b. 1854), who in mont. In 1832 he married Mary Shel- 1882 located on Sec. 20, was a native of don Greene (b. Amherst, Mass., 1816) Iowa. In 1878 he married Sarah J. and located in Chatauqua County, N. Wells and located in Jasper county. Y., and in 1868 in Webster County, He remained there until the date of Iowa. After living a year in Fort his settlement in Pocahontas county. Dodge he located on Greenside farm He met with good success as a farmer, near Otho and the next year returned assisted in the organization of Mar- to Fort Dodge. During the three shall township and as one of its first years, 1873 to 1876, he lived on the justices served thirteen years, 1882 to company farm in Marshall Township, 1894. His family consisted of three and then returned to Greenside Farm, children, Edith, Arwell and Lucian. where he spent the remainder of his He is now a resident of Sioux Rapids. days,
Scott, Edgar C., owner and occu-
His golden wedding was celebrated pant of a farm of 160 acres on the NE} at this place under very delightful Sec. 20, since 1886, is a native of Jas- circumstances, August 12, 1882. On per county. He has improved this this occasion it was found the family farm with good buildings and made represented 45 persons, which includ- it an attractive home. In 1892 he ed 8 children, 22 grand children, and moved to Laurens, but after spending 3 great grand children. From his ex- two years in a meat market and one cellent words of counsel on this occa- sinking wells, he returned to the farm. sion, we quote the following: "Re- In 1888 he married Anna Wells and member that the individual is an in- has a family of four children, Eunice, tegral part of the government and it Frank, Glenn and Nellie.
is his duty as well as privilege to exer-
Thoma, 'Anton (b. 1864) and his cise the high function of the ballot in two brothers, Alvis A. and Christ, all matters wherein the weal or woe coming from Germany in 1884 bought of the community is depending. Let the Et Sec. 31 and divided it into the sons of America, Man's last hope three farms, one for each of them? of universal freedom, be true to their These brothers were the first to oc- inheritance and hand down to poster- cupy and improve these farms. They ity the inestimable blessings of life, have erected handsome buildings and liberty, and an untrammeled pursuit secured a beautiful growth of trees of happiness."
He did not vote for Butler, the first
around them. Katie Thoma (b. 1831) their mother, came with them in 1884 presidential candidate of the green- and lives with Anton, who occupies back party, but joining that party the the south farm. In 1890 he married next year and using both his voice and Emma Bitner and has a family of four pen, he became one of its strongest advocates in this state. He received
children.
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a good education and, being a man of er he married Mabel Swaim, of Hum- strong convictions, like John Brown, boldt, where he is now engaged as a he disregarded popular sentiment and solicitor of insurance. Gertrude mar- even personal safety in advocating ried Charles E Herrick, a real estate them. He wrote many articles for agent, lives at Marathon and has sev- the public press in support of his en children, Irene, Robert, Naomi, money theory and they were remarka- Louis, Glendolyn and Catherine.
6. Flora married Silas W. Swift,
ble for their number, scope, and per- suasiveness. July 4, 1879, he deliv- a lumber dealer, who died in 1900 at ered the oration at the patriotic cele- Yankton, S. D., leaving a family of bration in Otho. Two months later five children; Eleanor, a teacher, is a he addressed the greenback county graduate of Yankton and Oberlin Col- convention at Fort Dodge, on the leges; Ruth, a graduate of the Han- right of a government to tax its citi- neman Medical College, Chicago, prac- zens for its own support. He effected ticed medicine two years and then the organization of the Otho Farmers' married Dr. Everett Marvin, Sioux Alliance during the early part of that City; Irene married Granville Standish year and, at each quarterly meeting, and lives in New York City; addressed that body on some agricul- Eunice married Miles Standish and tural or political topic, such as the lives in Brooklyn; Gordon lives with soil, the horse, labor, money, the his mother in Grand Junction, Colo. credit system and the prohibitory 7. Fannie married Frank Rees, for- merly a resident of Marshall town- amendment
He died on the farm, at 74, in 1884, ship, now of Grand Junction, where and his wife died at 74. in 1890 at the she died in 1897 leaving two children, home of her daughter Maria L. San- Lucia and May.
ders at Marathon.
8. Frank Greene Thornton (b. 1854) His family consisted of nine chil- dren, one of whom died in childhood. was auditor of Pocahontas county from 1893 to 1896. He is a native of 1. Alonzo Lucius, see page 477. Chatauqua county, N. Y., and at 14, 2. Mary Rebecca, married Lucius in 1868 came with his parents to Fort Sanders, editor of the Boonesboro Dodge, where he completed his educa- News, who died leaving three children, tion. In 1870 he became a resident of Carrie, May, and Lucia. She is now Marshall township and two years later living at Grand Junction, Colo.
married Naomi R. Herrick, an early
4. Emily, in New York married W. Fonda teacher. During the grasshop- Frank Tinkcom, a blacksmith, and per period, 1873 to 1874, he .moved to later located at Red Lodge, Montana, Fort Dodge and was conductor on the where he owns a large stock ranch and Illinois Central R. R. In 1882 he es - has served as a county commissioner. tablished a store in the new town of
Her family consists of three chil- Kalo, south of Fort Dodge and the dren, Minnie, Dallas, and Estella.
next year established a hardware and
5. Irene married Capt. L. D. But- grocery store at the new town of ton. In 1865 they located at Fort Laurens. Two years later he Dodge, where he became principal of was appointed and served three the public schools and she, a teacher years as postmaster at that place. also. She died there in 1869 leaving n 1887 he moved to Rolfe and two children, Louis T. and Gertrude. engaged in the hardware business, Louis taught school three years in moving to Pocahontas when elected to Pocahontas county and married Edith the office of county auditor. After Cornick, of Powhatan township. Lat- his term of service as county auditor
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he resumed the mercantile business at deputy U, S. Marshall. In 1888 he re- Fonda until Sept. 1, 1900, when he signed and accepted the position of moved to a fruit ranch near Grand inspector of customs at Juneau. In Junction, Colo. 1893 he located on his farm in Mar-
His first wife died in 1885 leaving shall township, which he improved two children, Albert H. and Fannie and occupied until 1899, when he B. Albert, after graduating from the moved to Laurens, where he has since State University in 1897, located at been engaged in the real estate busi- West Bend, where in 1898 he married ness.
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