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ler is the owner of a good farm near drove miles to see their work, and the Plover and several valuable properties board of supervisors appointed a com- in the town; and has been treasurer mittee to investigate and report the of the school funds since 1899.
In 1891 he married Cedora, a
results of this novel and profitable experiment. The goats manifested a daughter of Wenzel Hubel, a pioneer relish for every kind of young tree of Center township, and has a family growth, except hickory, and their clip yielded ninety cents each. of two children, Florin and Gladys. It Mary A. Hubel, his wife's mother, must always be remembered, that died at his home at 79, Feb. 10, 1902. this admirable trait of the goat for
Fessenden, Bradley M., owner clearing wild lands, tends to make and occupant of a farm on sec. 25 him a dangerous visitor to the garden, from 1872 to 1889, is a native of Mont- grove and orchard.
Day, George W. (b. 1875), druggist, Lydia Fessenden. The early part of is a native of Greene county, Wis., his life was spent at Pittston, Pa. the son of D. D. and R. A. Day, who In 1865 he came to Carroll county, now reside at Rolfe. In 1884 he came Ill., where in 1866 he married Betsey
class
with his parents to Iowa, and in 1832 B. De Wolf. In 1867 he located in was a member of the first graduating Cedar county, lowa, and in 1872 in of the Rolfe high school. Powhatan township, where after a few years, he located on the nw} sec. He improved and occupied this
In September, 1896 he married Jennie M. Lindsay, of Montreal, 25. Can., and in December following loca- farm until 1899, when he moved to ted at Plover where he has since been Sherburne, Minn. He was a man of engaged in the drug business. In 1898 strict integrity, a member of the he was the democratic nominee for Methodist church and served one county auditor and lacked only 17 year as president of the county Sun-
votes of being elected. In 1902 he day school association.
was
re-nominated.
His
family
He raised a family of ten children, consists of two children, Grace and three of whom are married. Henry Norma.
E. married Minnie Grove. Mary E.,
He has three brothers, W. D., who in 1890 married Samuel W. Lyman lives at Lawton, Okla , B. G. at Ha- and lived on a farm near Plover until warden and J. F. at Pocahontas; and 1900, when they moved to McHenry, three sisters, Mrs. A. T. White who N. D. where she died at 31, in 1901, lives at Pocahontas, Mrs. G. E. Boyn- leaving five children. Clara E. mar- ton, Sioux Rapids, and Mrs. L. A. ried George L. Pirie. The others are Haines, Albert Lea, Minn.
Charles L., the oldest, Isaac B., Har- Eggspuehler, Albert J. (b. 1858), vey D., George, Bessie and Lydia.
Fraser, John (b. 1827), owner and
merchant, is a native of Winneshiek county, Iowa. In 1885 he located in occupant of a homestead on sec. 36 Plover and engaged in the mercantile since 1866, is a native of the city of
rose, Pa., the son of Isaac B. and
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He is a man of sterling worth and
Glasgow, Scotland. At fifteen in 1842 he came to Beavertown, Ontario, has rendered efficient and constant Can., where in 1859 he married Mary service for many years as an official Bow, also of Scotch descent. In 1866, member of the M. E. church at Rolfe. with a family of two sons and two He is a man of faith and piety and daughters, John, Jessie, William and believes that, though He may seen to Mary, he came to Pocahontas county tarry a little, God will accomplish all and secured a homestead of 160 acres he has promised in regard to the over- on the sw} sec. 36, Powhatan town- throw of iniquity and the ushering in ship. He is one of the first residents of a reign of righteousness and peace. of the township and in the frontis- His family consisted of five children, piece may be seen a cut of the log one of whom, Jessie, died at 23 in 1884. house, built in 1868, that was the family residence for many years. increased the farm to 250 acres and in
John T., (b. Can. 1860) in 1883 mar- He ried Ida M. Waite, occupies his own well improved farm on sec. 1, Center later years improved it with good township, and has a family of seven buildings and groves. 24 miles west of Rolfe and is connect- ed with that town by telephone and a daily. free rural mail.
He has been secretary of the Poca- hontas County Bible Society (p. 503) since its organization at Old Rolfe in 1867, and in October that year, carried from Fort Dodge the first lot of Bibles brought to this county. During the 35 years he has been secretary of this organization, there has been brought to this county through its instru-
William J. (b. Can. 1863) in 1888 married Laura, daughter of R. B. Fish and located at Rolfe where he continued to reside until 1900, when mentality, Bibles and Testaments to he went to LaConnor, and in 1902, to the value of $800, and in 1897 a canvass of the county was made to put a Bible in every home.
He is one of the men who took the and Jessie.
lead in having the name of the town- ship changed from "Nunda" and "Jackson" to "Powhatan, " and served twelve years as treasurer of the school funds. The large number of votes that have frequently been cast for the candidates of the prohibition party in this township has been largely due to his leadership and influence. He dren, William, Frank, Gladys, Mary, Cora, Belle, Howard and Irene.
is a total abstainer and has supported the prohibition party since 1881. He is a man of firm convictions, knows member of the family born in this what he believes and finds encourage- ment in the following lines:
"For right is right, since God is God, And right the day must win:
To doubt would be disloyalty, To falter would be sin."
It is located children, Ethel, Mary, John, George, Frank, Lucile and Foster.
Jessie F. (b. Aug. 1861) in 1880 mar- ried John Taylor and in 1884 died at Odebolt, leaving two children, Mabel L., who in 1901 married Milton W. Maulsby, a barber, at Fonda; and Charles, who lives with his father at Rolfe.
Mt. Vernon, Wash. His family con- sists of seven children, Bert R., Min- nie, Winnie, Vernon, Clare, Earl B.
Mary E. in 1885 married John A. Vandecar and located on a farm near Livermore. In 1889 he moved to Rolfe and engaged in business, but a few years later purchased and now oc- cupies a farm of 180 acres in West Bend township, Palo Alto county. Their family consists of eight chil-
Charles E (b. Aug. 1, 1868), the only county, was born in the log house and was one of the first children born in Powhatan. After attending the high school in Rolfe he graduated from the Iowa Business College at
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Des Moines in 1889. During the sum- with wife and three children, James, mer of 1891 he taught school in Clin- Jane and Alexander, settled on a ton township. Nov. 16, 1891 he en- homestead of 80 acres on sec. 8, Bell- tered the employ of the State Savings ville township. He improved and oc- Bank at Rolfe as a bookkeeper, and cupied this farm until 1881, when he on Jan. 1, 1899 became its assistant located on the net sec. 29, Powhatan cashier. He has lived at Rolfe since township, which he was the first to the date of his birth and now owns occupy and improve. In 1887 he considerable property in that town. moved to Havelock and the next year In the fall of 1899 he effected the or- to Plover, where he kept hotel; and ganization of the Rolfe Telephone Co. his sons, James, Alexander and Wil- with a capital of $10,000, and served liam engaged in making hay and one year as its manager. It has now working on the roads. In 1900 he 260 phones in operation, many of moved to West Bend and the next which are upon farms, and their num- year to Rolfe.
ber is constantly increasing. He is His family consisted of nine chil- also one of the organizers of the Rolfe dren: James, a native of Scotland, is Gas Co. and owns a block of its capital a dealer in hay; Jane has been a stock. He was clerk of Clinton town- teacher for many years: Alexander is at ship five years, 1896-1900, and in 1902 Mallard; Catherine married Harry A. was elected a member of the Rolfe Hilton; Maggie, in 1901, married E. H. town council.
Post and lives at Rolfe; the others are William, John, Robert and Martha.
In 1895 he married Hittie L., youngest daughter of Dr. W. O. Beam Goodchild, George (b. 1818), the pioneer occupant of the sw sec. 20, is a native of England, where in 1846 he married Ursula Wilkinson. In 1849 of Humboldt, who, after her gradu i- tion at Toledo in 1890, moved to Rolfe and taught twelve terms in the public schools of this county, including sev- he came to New York City, where he eral at Rolfe. She has four brothers found employment as a shoe maker, and two sisters, and four of them are and seven years later located on Long or have been residents of this county, Island. In 1867 he came to Webster namely, Dr. W. W. Beim and Mrs county, Iowa, and in 1869 located on a J. H. Charlton at Rolfe, and C. H. homestead of 160 acres in Powhatan
Beam at Pocahontas; Dr. W. O. township. He improved this farm Beam and H. A. Beam at Moline, Ill .; with good buildings and occupied it Jennie G. who taught school several 1885.
Mrs. A. Owen at Toledo, lowa, and until his death. His wife died in Both he and his wife were years at Plover, in 1900 married raised in the Episcopal church and Thomas Heather and in 1902 located became active workers in the M. E. at Bard, S. D. Mr. and Mrs. Fraser church in Powhatan. have one son, Charles Halford. His family consisted of nine chil-
Geddes, Alexander (b. 1840), a dren, three of whom died young.
pioneer of Bellville and a long time resident of Powhatan, is a native of Scotland, the son of James and Jane Stark Geddes. In 1861, he marriedCath- Henry in 1883 married Nettie Spen- cer, of Osceola county, located on the swł sec. 27, Washington township, improved and occupied it until 1901, when he moved one mile west of Have- erine Lannie and worked in the mines lock. He has done considerable work until the spring of 1866, when he brought his family to Braidwood, Ill. Three years later he came in a prairie schooner to Fort Dodge and in 1870 as a carpenter and mason, having learned both of these trades in his youth. .His family consists of six children, Mary, Anna, Kate, Sarah, Edward and Jesse,
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William A. in 1885 married Eunice, sec. 24, Powhatan township and begin- daughter of Elijah Chase, and lives on ning to occupy it May 10, 1864, built a the old Chase farm, four miles north cabin and did some breaking that of Havelock. His family consists of same month. six children, Ella, Elizabeth, Ursula In October following (1864) his mother, Nancy, his brothers, Abel Millie, William and Lester.
Ursula in 1884 married Joseph O. Hicks and Thomas, and sister, Belle, Overholt, who owns and occupies a arrived from Bureau county, Illinois. farm of 320 acres in Emmet county Sept 29th, in anticipation of their ar- and raises thoroughbred stock. Her rival, Barney filed a claim in the name family consists of five children, Ira of his mother, for the net sec. 24, ad- and Inez, twins, Siegel, William and joining his own. No others had filed Florence.
Herbert in 1889 married Margaret Ludington, a farmer, lives in Palo Alto county and has three children, Henry, Daniel and Joel Thomas, Jerry Young, William Stone, Samuel
claims in this township before her, ex- cept Barney and those who filed on the previous day, Sept. 28, namely,
Mabel, Leon and Wayne.
Hancher, Mrs. Nancy A. (1807-82), and George Booth, and she located on mother of Barney and Abel Hicks her claim before the last three.
Hancher, was one of the early pio- neers of Powhatan townshlp.
Mrs. Hancher and family spent the Ac- first winter in the vicinity of Old companving her sons and daughters Rolfe and, locating on her claim in to the frontier in the early sixties, she the spring of 1865, improved and oc- shared with them the pleasures, pri- cupied it until her death at 75, Oct. 2, vations and hardships of the early 1882. Her home was, for many years, days, when young men founded hum- a favorite place of meeting among the ble homes,
"Far out upon the prairie."
settlers. The first social and first Sunday school picnic were held here. the moral and spiritual, as well as
Her husband, John Hancher, (1798- She was a true mother and cared for 1853), was a native of Jefferson county, Virginia, and a soldier in the war of temporal welfare of her children. She 1812. After their marriage in 1827, was a member of the Christian church
they located in Harrison county, and had the faculty of making her Ohio, and remained until about 1850, home a delightful place of meeting.
when they moved to Kentucky and Hancher, Barney (b. Harrison Co., the next year to Brown county, Ind., Ohio, 1831), the first resident of Pow- where he died at 57 in 1853, leaving a hatan township, in 1862 married Mar- family of four sons and five daughters. garet Ellen, daughter of Henry Thom- After a residence of six years at this as during their residence in Bureau place Mrs. Hancher and family moved county, Illinois. In 1864 he built the to Bureau county, Illinois, where in first cabin and turned the first furrow 1862, Barney, her oldest son, married in Powhatan. During the winter of 1864-65 he moved his cabin to the tim- ber in W. H. Hait's pasture southeast of Old Rolfe, but returned to his claim the next spring. He improved and occupied it until 1879 when he sold it to James Drown and moved to Ness county, Kansas. In 1881, ac- companied by Mr, and Mrs. Henry Thomas, he returned to this county and in 1883 located near Rolfe where he still lives. He served as one of the Ellen, daughter of Henry Thomas. In the fall of 1863 he and wife and Jerry Young, wife and six children came to Pocahontas county, and loca- ted for that winter, Hancher in Mills' cabin at McKnight's Point, and Young in Oscar Slosson's "shack" on sec. 24, Des Moines township. . April 9, 1864 Barney filed a claim for the seł
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judges at the first election in Powhat- term as assessor and several as a an and later three years as a trustee. trustee. In 1902, leaving the farm in He carried the mail between Fonda care of his son, Adelbert, he moved to and Pocahontas two years. Rolfe.
His family consisted of five children one of whom died in childhood.
His family consisted of seven chil- dren.
Susanna in 1885 married Albert, G. Leland, a mason, and died in 1888.
Adelbert E. lived several years with his uncle, Thomas Cooper, and bought
ty. In 1901 he took charge of his father's farm. He married Ollie Mrs. Hoffman, and his three children, Jinness and has one child, Luverne. Erena, Pearl and Amy visited the
Melvin Park, a farmer and stock Pacific coast and all of them were raiser, in 1896, married Priscilla Han- among the missing after the fire, that lon and located first in Clinton, and burned the hotel at Seattle that year. in 1901 in Des Moines township, where He is now engaged in farming at Mc- he owns a well improved farm of 160 Henry, N. D. acres adjoining Rolfe. His family Alva G. married Sarah Van Horn consists of one child, Virgil.
Charles E., in 1897 married Jessie
and lives at Richards, Calhoun county, where he has charge of a lumber yard. Shepherd, lives near Plover and has Frank W., a farmer, married 1da two children.
Archer and in 1902 located at Mc. Henry, N. D.
Thomas in 1900 married Eva Grove, lives in Powhatan and has one child,
Hancher, Abel Hicks (b. O., 1845), Leta M.
Stella in 1900 married Clarence D
proprietor of the Spring Creek stock farm, sec. 24, Powhatan, is a native of Hobbs, a stock dealer and manager of Harrison county, Ohio, and in youth Counselman's elevator at Plover.
moved with his mother and her fam- Eva L. a teacher, and Edith are at ily to Bureau county, Illinois. In the home. fall of 1864 he came with his mother, Hancher, Thomas J. in October, brother Thomas and sister, Belle, to 1864 with wife and two children, ac- Pocahontas county, where in 1866 he companied his mother from Bureau built on sec. 24, one of the first cabins county, Illinois, to this county and in Powhatan township. Oct. 6, 1868 located on the net sec. 14, Powhatan. he married Caroline, daughter of Be- The next year he moved to Jasper riah Cooper of Des Moines township. county and in 1884 to Des Moines.
Belle in 1866 married Henry Tilley,
He occupied the old homestead of his mother many years, increased it to (p. 530). 365 acres and improved it with sub- ing a large amount of stock.
Heathman, Squire Ephraim (b. stantial and ample buildings for rais- 1846), a resident of Powhatan since He 1873, is a native of Hancock county, Everything about it suggests order, rine Heathman.
made it a very beautiful home. Ohio, the son of David C. and Cathe- thrift, convenience and comfort.
In 1847 he moved He with his parents to Wisconsin, where has devoted his attention to raising he grew to manhood. In the fall of and feeding stock as well as farming, 1862 he enlisted as a member of a and, during the 37 years he occupied heavy artillery company, but two the farm, did not sell over $300 worth months later was mustered out on of grain from it, but bought much account of being too small for that from his neighbors. He served one kind of service. In October, 1863, he
John Henry, a mason, in 1887 mar- a farm of 240 acres in Palo Alto coun- ried Allie Hoffman and located at Rolfe. In 1895 his wife, her mother,
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re-enlisted as a member of Co. I, 2d
Heathman, Hiram (b. 1821), an Wis. Cav. and remained in the service uncle of Squire Heathman, is a native until Nov. 15, 1865, when he was of Ohio where he grew to manhood mustered out at Austin, Texas, He and married Priscilla Moody. In 1867 was in the Western Department of the he located in Greene county, Wiscon- Army under Generals Osborne and sin, and in 1872, coming with his neph- Custer.
ew to Pocahontas county, located on In 1868 he married Phoebe J., the sw} sec. 9, Powhatan, which daughter of Joel Smith and located he improved and occupied until his on a farm in Greene county, Wis. In death at 64, in 1885. His wife died at 1872 accompanied by Joseph D. Hilton 70 in 1895. The farm still belongs to he came to Powhatan township and the family which consisted of ten located on the nwd sec. 9, and Hilton children.
on 5. Squire improved and occupied Rosella, married Dwight Wood, a his farm until 1892 when he moved to mason, and lived in Wisconsin until Plover. 1898, when they moved to Rolfe.
He has taken a very prominent Their family consisted of six children. part in the management of the affairs Edward, Nettie, Addie, Bert, Ida and in the township, having served 12 Almeda. Edwardin Wisconsin mar- years as president of the school board, ried Amelia Wallace, who died in nine as assessor and eight as a trus- 1890, leaving one daughter, Edna. In tee. He has also taken a laudable in- 1898 he married Minnie Thompson terest in the work of the churches. and their family consists of three His wife, who was a native of Greene children. Nettie Wood in 1895 mar- ried John Albee, a farmer, lives in
county, Wis., died at 49 in 1900.
His family consisted of 12 children, Powhatan, and has one son, Elmer. two of whom died young, Mark at 15 Addie in 1888 married Edward Gib- in 1887.
bons, a stockbuyer, lives at Rolfe, and Willis D. married Ida Grove, lives has four children, Roy, William, Net- at Plover and has three children, tie and Dewey. Bert, a mason, in Lena, Squire and Myrtle. 1896 married May Spear and lives at Rolfe. Ida in 1893 married William
Frank E. id 1895 graduated from the medical college at Keokuk and soon Porter, a farmer, and lives near Rolfe. afterwards located at Havelock, where
Vilinda married Charles Water- he is still engaged in the practice of man, whoin 1873 located on the net medicine. He married Maggie Fitz- sec. 8, Powhatan, and now lives near gerald and has three children, Virgil, Paullina. Her family consisted of Lucile and Elmer.
three children, Emma, Eva and
Calvin in 1899 married Maud Stevens Mabel. Emma married Calvin Wells lives at Plover and has one child, and lives in Dakota; and Eva married John Hodgden, a farmer, and lives in Cleetis.
George in 1901 married Alice Pullan O'Brien county.
and lives at Plover.
Hiram married Viola Hilton, lives
Arthur in 1899. married Maggie near Ruthven and has three children, Pirie, located on a farm near Plover Marion, Myrtle and Elmer. and has two children, Clarence and Clara (b. Greene Co., Wis., 1845) in Wisconsin married Jacob W. Brown, Margaret.
Rosa in 1901 married Walter E. who in 1866 filed a claim for a home- stead on the net sec. 10, Powhatan. He died in 1880 leaving three children, Aria, Susan and Alice. Thomas
Chinn and lives at Plover.
Carrie, Maggie, Ida and Ina are at home.
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Beatty, a section foreman, lives at Powhatan and has two children, Guy Perry and has two children. Susan and Cecil.
married John Baird, a carpenter, lives Henderson, James (b. 1836), owner at Rolfe and has three children. Alice of 460 acres, principally on sec. 8, is a married Edward Wasson, a brick native of Scotland, a son of George moulder, lives at St. Joe, Mo., and has and Catherine Henderson. At 21 he three children. In 1882 Clara married Wm. H. Drown, a barber, and in 1889 died at Rolfe leaving, as a result of this union, one son, Clarence. came to Canada, where in 1863 he married Beatrice Penman and engag- ed in weaving cotton and woollen fab- rics for the farmers.
Elmus H. is the owner and
In the spring of 1866 he located in occupant of a farm of 160 acres in Powhatan township making the trip Powhatan. He has served seven with his family by rail to Boone and years as a township trustee. He mar- thence by prairie schooner. He had ried Lucy Beam and has a family of four children. Maud, a teacher, in 1900 married Wm. Postin; Claude, ied by his brother George Henderson, Earl and Floyd. then three children; Catherine, Mar- garet and George, and was accompan- his wife and four children, Janet,
Samantha in 1868 married John Catherine, Margaret and George; and Conley, a farmer, and located in Wis- a young man, James Ploven.
consin. 1n 1875 they located in Colo-
May 22, 1866 he, George, his brother rado, where he died in 1901 leaving an and James Ploven filed claims for estate valued at $30,000. He left one their respective homesteads and also daughter, Lilly, who in 1887 married their applications to become Ameri- Theron Northrop, a carpenter, and can citizens. They received their located at Plover. After her father's naturalization papers in 1871 and their death in 1901 with a family of six patents in 1876.
children, Dart, Earl, Paul, Euphemia,
He lived during the first three years William and Lyle, they moved to the on sec. 26 and in the spring of 1870 late home of her father at Hermosa, located on his homestead on the nw} Colorado.
Lydia married Jacob Strandberg, a good buildings, fences, groves and shoe maker, and lived at Plover until they moved to Oklahoma. Her fam-
sec. 8. He improved this farm with
orchard, remained on it when the times were hard and is now the owner ily consists of five children. Lizzie of 462 acres in that vicinity. His suc- married Chas. Northrop, a carpenter, cess has not been a matter of chance, lives at Plover and has two children; but has been due to his constant en- Alvah, George, Cora and Paul.
deavor to give the land thorough
George married Lillian Wells and cultivation, the crops careful protec- located on a farm in Powhatan, which tion and all the interests of the farm he improved, enlarged to 200 acres, his first attention, so that he might and occupied until 1900 when he mov- be able to push the work rather than ed to a fruit farm in the state of Wash- have it crowd him. He has become ington. His family consists of five one of the substantial and influential children, George, Lewis, Gould, Ver- men in the township. He has served ner and Esther ..
thirteen years as a trustee of the Cora (b. 1860), in 1879 married Wm. township, and, taking a leading part Amos, a farmer, lives in Oklahoma in efiecting the organization of the and has a family of five children.
Plover Presbyterian church in 1888,
Martha (b. 1862), in 1882 married he has served as an elder and clerk of Thomas Meredith, a farmer, lives in the session in it since that date and
MR. AND MRS. PHILIP HAMBLE
PIONEER HOME OF THOMAS L. MAC VEY The first frame house in Powhatan township, built in the spring of 1867 on N. E. 14 Sec. 36. Powhatan Township. In front are Mrs. Frank L. Mac Vey and her two children,
MR. AND MRS. JAMES HENDERSON
MR. AND MRS. WM. A. HUBEL.
Powhatan and Center.
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and five years as superintendent of its served seven years as treasurer of the Sunday school. His noble wife has school funds. been a faithful and efficient helper in
all his plans to promote the welfare ily of six children. In 1886 he mar- of his family and church.
He has raised a family of eight children, five sons and three daught- ers.
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