Warner's history of Dakota County, Nebraska, from the days of the pioneers and first settlers to the present time, with biographical sketches, and anecdotes of ye olden times, Part 16

Author: Warner, M. M
Publication date: 1893
Publisher: Lyons [Neb.] Mirror Job Office
Number of Pages: 394


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SETTLERS OF 1861.


C. C. ORR was born March 17, 1817, and came to Dakota county in May, 1861. Lived in Dakota City five years. Had one son, William C. He owned large tracts of land in Dakota county. Died at his home in Sioux City, Iowa, February 12. 1893.


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JOHN B. MYERS might have been seen jogging along on the "bnekboard" from Omaha to Dakota county in August, 1861. It was about noon on a hot. sultry August day when his journey terminated by halting in front of A. HI. Baker's hotel, in Omadi, and many of the western people know what an enormons appetite it gives a person to ride a hundred miles on a · buckboard." The landlord stood off im the corner of the room and as he watched him devour everything in reach, be wondered how much more that man could hold. lle proceeded to his brother's place, A. J. Myers, who then lived a short distance np the ravine west of Col. Baird's farm. Worked at plastering and nearly all of the older houses of the county are witnesses to the handiwork of his trowel. Went to Omaha and Ne- braska City and worked a while at his trade in those places. About this time he concluded to take into himself a wife. His first step was to go out and fall in love with a pretty school ma'm and on the 6th of Jan-' nary. 1867, was married to Mary Ann Boyle, daughter of Chas. Boyle, in the Catholic church, at Jackson, by Rev. Father Erlach. He at once settled on a farm five miles sonth- west of Dakota City where he resided many years, and has always been a respected and law abiding citizen. IIas lost a number of horses with what is known as the "bottom disease" but in later years did his farming with mules. John B. Myers was born April 18, 1832, in Cambria county, Pennsylvania. 1854 went to Chicago and from there to Dubugne. Iowa. Went down to New Orleans and then back to Dubuque and remained there seven or eight years, after which he went to St. Joe, Missouri, in 1859, then to Pennsylvania. Came west again to Keokuk the following year. When the great civil war broke out he enlisted in Company A, 21st Missouri Infantry, commanded by Col. Moore. Participated in the battle of Shiloh. After leaving the army came north to Dakota county, which closes the story of another pioneer. He is at present living in Homer, Nebraska.


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SETTLERS OF 1862, 1863 AND 1864.


JOHN MYERS was born in Ireland, in 1837 and came to Dakota county in 1862. Located on a farm and afterwards kept store in Jackson, where he was married in 1869. Has two sons, Matthew and John; one daughter, Mary. £ Is at present living in Sionx City, Iowa.


JOHN AND HENRY JOHNS, two brothers, came to Dakota county in the fall of 1862. Settled in Blyburg. John married Cynthia A. Pilgrim-has five children. Henry married Eliza Bailey-has six children.


JOHN ROONEY, SR. was born in Scotland in 1828, and landed in America November 17, 1851. Settled in Dakota county in 1863, where he has resided to the present time. Was married in Sioux City, Iowa, to Bridget Long. Has five sons and six daughters-John, Thomas, Peter, Hugh, Henry, Ellen, Mary Ann, Katie, Maggie, Agnes and Anna. P. O. address, Hubbard.


NICOLAS R. BRASFIELD was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, April 28, 1850. Enlisted in Company B, 8th Iowa Infantry in 1864. Came to Sergeant Bluffs April 11, 1863, and hunted wild turkeys in the timber south of Dakota City, that year. Was married in Madison county, Iowa. His wife died and he married Miss Katy J. Hileman, at Dakota City, July 26, 1883, Rev. D. Marquett officiating. Was elected sheriff of Dakota county November 8, 1887.


SAMUEL CURTIS came to Dakota county in July, 1864, and settled in Blyburg, where he died. There are three sons -- Calvin, Tunis and Samuel; one daugh- ter, Mrs. Ida Lane. Mrs. Curtis married John Tryon and they live at Blencoe, Iowa.


JOHN A. WILLIAMS came with his parents to Da- kota county, February 9, 1864. Lived in Dakota City, while his father was in the army, three years. Then located in Covington, where he has since resided.


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Married in 1887 to Alma McEihaney. Has one son and two daughters.


THOMAS CHRISTOPHERSON was born in Norway. 1835, and came to Dakota county in 1864. Settled along the bluffs in the southern part of the county with his brother Peter and was killed near Covington No- vember 9, 1878, by his team running away, upsetting the wagon which fell upon him. His wife had pre- viously died, leaving four children- Christopher. Todli, Mrs. Miron Sutton and Anna.


JOHN WILLIAMS was born 1821 and came to Da- kota county, February 9, 1864 locating in Covington, where he continned to reside until his death, at the residence of his son John A. Williams, on the 16th of May, 1889. His remains were interred in the Dakota City burying ground. His wife and three daughters had previously gone to their eternal rest. Three grown sons survived him-John A., Charles F. and James M.


JOHN DUGGAN was born in 1832, in Ireland, and came to Dakota county in the spring of 1864. Took a homestead near Jackson. Lives one-half mile east of Hubbard. Married to Catharine Hogan; they have five sons-Patrick. Thomas, Robert. John and William; two daughters-Mrs. Thomas Long and Johannah.


PROF. SAMUEL AUGHEY was born in Juniatta county, Pennsylvania, February 8, 1831, and settled in Dakota City in the fall of 1864. Graduated from the Pennsyl- vania college in 1856. In the autumn of 1857 entered the Theological Seminary at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. where he remained four years. From boyhood days took great interest in geology, and is to-day one of the emi- nent geologists of our country. Married to Elizabeth C. Welty. in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, Oc- tober 14, 1858. Has one daughter, Helen B. After arriving in Dakota City was the Lutheran minister there three years, also County Surveyor and Superin-


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tendent of Public Schools. Hlas held many responsible positions in scientific and geological departments since moving away from Dakota county.


BENJAMIN CORWIN came to Dakota connty in 1864 and settled in Blyburg where he died, leaving one son George; six daughters-Mrs. Win. Pilgrim, Mrs. Nois Bliven, Mrs. Alfred Pilgrim, Mrs. Eldred Shook, Mrs. Taylor Osburn and Mrs. Frank Hale. His widow was married to Andrew Johns in 1881.


DR. JOSEPH BRADBRARY Was married in Ill., and came to Dakota county, 1864. Located in Dakota City, where he died in 1868. His wife was married a second time to John Smith, Sr., in 1870. and died at Dakota City, July 11, 1880, leaving one daughter. Josephine, wife of Theodore D. Curtis.


PETER CHRISTOPHERSON was born in Norway.in 1938. Came to America 1859 and settled in Dane county. Wisconsin, where he was married. Came to Dakota county, in the summer of 1864 and camped on the banks of Blyburg lake and soon after purchased a tract of land of Col. Orr, adjoining Capt. ()'Conner's farm, also filed on a homestead, joining this land on the east, and proved up on the same. His wife died June 30th. 1882. Has seven children living and four dead.


SETTLERS OF 1865.


WILLIAM BARNETT was born in 1837, in Perry county, Pennsylvania. Was married in 1859 to Agnes Bell, and came to Dakota county in the spring of 1865. Has four sons-George, Joseph, William and James; tive daughters-Mary J., Belle, Nellie, Florence and Hattie. His brother Joseph lived here one year. now resides in Pennsylvania.


WILLIAM TAYLOR was born in 1839, in Iowa, and on the 11th of March 1865, made his first appearance in Dakota county. He at once, by his integrity and


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RESIDENCE OF WILLIAM TAYLOR, AND FAMILY.


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fair dealings among his fellowmen, became a prominent citizen, and was elected county commissioner October 8, 1867. Was again elected to the same office twenty-one years later, which position he held until the commis- sioner system was discontinued. Settled on a farne eight miles south west of Dakota City, where he still resides. Has lost three wives, and has eight


children living- four sons, R. Lee, Goodwin P. William and Jolin L; fonr daughters, Mrs. Olive Shull, Mrs. Viola Nixon, Sylvia and Mable C., wife of M. M. Warner. Three children have died. His daughter Elma J. died September 4, 1888. She was loved and respected by a large circle of friends.


IN MEMORIAM.


[In fond remembrance of Elma Taylor.]


Dear Elma lies still


In the graveyard on the hill, And while the autumn winds wave All night long around her grave -


Her many friends will say:


"How oft along the vanished past, Still with the lines of youth aglow, Spring up the flowers that faded fast - The scented bloom of long ago! Where is the heart that would forget The smile, the look, the embrace? Amid the years we treasure yet, The contour of her loving face, "


A Young Friend, M. M. South Sioux City, Neb., September 10, '88.


STEVEN M. ROCKWELL came to Dakota county. August 28, 1865, and operated a carpenter shop at Dakota City and in Omadi precinct. His two sons Ephraim and Henry live in Homer. He and two daughters -Eliza C. and Rodema live in Indiana. Three children are dead.


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SETTLERS OF 1866.


GEORGE LEAMER was born in Blair county, Pa., and came to Dakota county, April 2, 1866. Bought J. F. Warner's farm, two miles west of Dakota City, where he has lived to the present time. Built a fine brick residence on his farm in 1872, at a cost of $4,- 000. Married in 1852 to Margaret Geesey of Blair county, Pa., She died April 1. 1885, leaving eight sons.


C. B. HOWARD was born February 24, 1847 in Pennsylvania, and came to Dakota county April 10, 1866. In the spring of 1870 took a claim on Fiddlers Creek. Married to Mary Phillips. Has one son and three daughters. Postoffice Homer.


ALBERT M. HARRINGTON Was born March 23, 1838, in Connecticut. Was married to Jennie S. Kimball in Massachusetts. September 27, 1862, and came to Da- kota county, April 26, four years later. Was employed as carpenter at the Winnebago Agency two years and a half. Afterwards took a homestead on Fiddlers Creek which he stills owns. Postoffice Homer.


ENOS KEEL was born in Perry county, Pennsylvania in 1822, and came to Dakota county in July 1866. Was Treasurer of Dakota county, and died when hold- ing the office at 10:30 a. in. October 2, 1873, at his res- idence five miles west of Dakota City. There are six children living-one son, Enos; and five daughters -- Mrs. Emma Myres, Duarte, California; Mrs. Mary Culver, Monte Vista, California; Mrs. Ella Brown and Mrs. Jennie Page, Lyons, Nebraska; and Miss Lizzie, Los Angelos, California.


CHARLES H. POTTER was born in Woodstock, Windham county, Connecticut, and spent his earlier years in the place of his birth, receiving his education from the common school of the county. Enlisted in the war for the Union as a private, in company D.


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18th Connecticut Inf. Vol. Soon after entering the service was promoted to 1st Lieutenant and placed in command of company H. 24th United States Colored Troops. Was acting Adjutant of the regiment and act- ing assistant Adjutant General on the staff of Major General Barnes and when the regiment was mustered out was chosen Provost Marshall of Halifax county. Virginia. Was three years head clerk at the Winne- bago Agency under Agent Matthewson's administra- tion. Was married in 1868, to Maria Norton, at Da- kota City by H. H. Wilson. Located on a farm on Omaha creek near Comb's mill where he diligently labored for many years until he had reared for himself and wife one of the neatest and most comfortable homes to be found in the county. Was appointed Su-


perintendent and his wife Matron of Industrial School at the Winnebago Agency, under Agent G. W. Wilk- inson's administration, which position he held until he was appointed United States Indian Agent for the Omaha and Winnebago Agencies, to succeed Wilkin- son, Angust 7, 1885, which position he held until November 1, of the next year. Moved to Wakefield and thence to Alabama, where he has an interest in some oyster beds. Mr. Potter is a good scholar, an able debator, and taught school for a number of years in Dakota county.


GEO. C. GRANGER was born September 12th, 1820. in Saratoga county, N. Y. Came to Dakota county, September 1866. Located in the timber sis miles northwest of Jackson, where he opened up a wood- yard and sold wood to passing steamboats. Was


twice a widower before marrying his present Miss Eliza E. Mckenzie, September 3rd, 1867. Has three children living. Has served a number of years as county commissioner and surveyor. Was elected to the latter office November 3, 1889, and is now filling that office. Was also elected as surveyor for Dixon


wife.


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county, November 2, 1880. He is at present living in Sonth Sioux City.


JACOB A. SIDES was born December 31, 1844, in Indiana county, Pennsylvania. Enlisted in the late war when but 16 years of age, in Company D. 4th Regiment Pennsylvania Vol. Mounted Inf. lle set- tled in Dakota county May 5, 1865, on a piece of land two miles and a half south-east of Dakota City. Ilis wife died in 1867, and was married a second time to Miss Alice E. Wright, August 15, 1872. He was accidentally shot Friday, July 11, 1890, a short dis- tance south of the two Lutheran churches west of Da- kota City, leaving a wife and six children, one by his first wife and five by second.


ADAM WENZEL was born January 20, 1820, in Germany and came to Dakota connty in April, 1866. Served three years as a Union soldier in the Rebellion. Was married in Peora, Illinois. He has a step-son --- Win. Gammet, and lives on the Island northwest of Dakota City. He invented a corn planter and received a patent for it.


MILTON FORESHOE was born November 22, 1844. in Pennsylvania. Married to Emaline Sides April 24. 1866, in his native state. Came to Dakota county, May 5, 1866, and took a homestead near Win. Taylor's place. Afterwards moved to where he now lives five miles southwest of Dakota City. Has one son, Milton. and two daughters, Alta and Bessie.


S. P. MIKESELL Was born in Indiana county. Pennsylvania, and came to Dakota county in 1866 set- tling in Dakota City. Afterwards moved to Ponca in 1869 where he still resides, and is engaged in the mer- cantile business


MICHAEL KEEL was born November 5, 1815, in Perry county. Pennsylvania, crossed the river into Da- kota county, July 5, 1866. Lived on the bottom west


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of Dakota City for three years, when he moved to the above named town where he lived until his death. February 28, 1892.


M. W. BEARDSHEAR made his first journey to Dakota county on a sled in January 1867. Was mar- ried to Josiah W. Davis' eldest daughter. Ellen S .. December 25, 1868. Has four sons. the names of the three eldest being Frank, William and Edward; three daughters. Lille, Bertha and Roselin. Lives on a farm three miles south of Homer. Mr. Beardshear was born in Knox county, Ohio, April 18, 1842. Has served as assessor for Omadi precinct.


TAYLOR OSBURN was born in 1848 in Indiana. and came to Dakota connty, June 1867. Was married to Rosa Carwin in 1873, and has seven children living three sons and four daughters. One child died. He is at present living in Blyburg.


CHARLES D. BAYLISS was born in West Virginia in 1837. When the war of the rebellion broke out he enlisted in the Third West Virginia Infantry. and at the close of the war received a certificate of thanks from the governor for his gallantry and bravery. . Came to Dakota county, Nebraska, in the spring of 1867, located in Covington, and with Win. Iledges, started a meat market at that place. Afterwards moved to the Omaha Indian reservation, where he married Mrs. Moneravie, in 1880, and died at his home on Omaha creek. August 8, six years later. His wife and two children survive him.


MARTIN S. MANSFIELD was born about 1830. in Marion. Grant county. Indiana. In 1840 went to Champaign county. Ill., where he was engaged at farm- ing and learning the carpenter's trade. Eulisted in the war for the Union June 1, 1861, in Company C. 25th Illinois Infantry, under Col. W. N. Coller. After- wards served in Missouri under Gen. Siegel and fought ju that great battle of the southwest-Pea Ridge,


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March 6, 7 and 8, 1962. Was detached to the 8th Wisconsin battalion, light artillery, August 18, 1862. Was at the evacuation of Corinth, Mississippi. marched from there to Perryville and participated in the engagement of October 8, 1862; was captured


near Nashville, Tennessee, November 7, 1882 by John Morgan, and was taken to Lebanon, Tennessee, was paroled but not released. Escaped by running across some ditches where he could not be followed by horse- men. Was sent to Camp Chase, Ohio, where he re- mained until March 8, 1863, when he returned to the command at Murfreesborongh, Tennessee. After participating in the battles of Chickamanga, Lookont Mt. and Missouri Ridge, returned to Murfreesborongh. Fought in the battles of Kennesaw Mt. and Peach creek ; was released at Atlanta, Angust 3, 1864, and sent to


Springfield, Illinois. Came to Decatur, Nebraska, June, 1865, and worked at the carpenter's trade. Went to the Winnebago Agency, Nebraska, October 1, 1866. to do some carpenter work and spent the following winter in Decatur. On the 7th day of March, 1867, he stood for the first time in his life upon Dakota county soil. Helped to build the Sam Combs mill. Was married October 20, of that year to Sarah C. De- . Borde, fifth danghter of J. F. DeBorde-one of the pioneers of Dakota county, Covington. Nebraska. October 1, of the following year, crossed over the bridge on Omaha creek where Homer was soon after located, with a load of lumber and his tools. By night of the same day he had completed the first house ever erected in the town of Homer, which was occupied be- fore dark by John and Joseph Smith with a stock of general merchandise. The following spring he built several other honses in the new town, which had in the mean time been staked off into lots. Smithville was suggested as the name for the town in honor of its founders, whereupon Mr. Mansfield replied: "Gentle- men, I want a name with one mouthful, the new town


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will be called Homer." Was commissioned a notary public in 1885 and appointed by President Cleveland as postmaster at Homer, which office he took charge of on the 12th day of February of the next year. The Homer postoffice was raised to a money order office July 1, 1887. Has six children living. He has ever taken a deep interest in all enterprises looking to the welfare of the connty, is considered a good public speaker and has always identified himself with the dem- ocratie party in Dakota county polities and no history of the county can ever be impartially written without the name of M. S. Mansfield.


WILLIAM HEDGES was born April 10th 1837, in Beverly. Washington county, Ohio: moved with par- ents to Athens county, and then to Morgan county. where he lived on a farm until the beginning of the war; enlisted in April, 1861, in Company H. 17th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Was promoted to orderly sergeant, after being wounded in the charge at Fort Wagner. Gen. B. F. Butler recommended to the governor of Ohio that "William Hedges be promoted to the rank and pay of 1st. Lientenant, for meritorious conduct in front of the enemy at Richmond." In ten days afterwards was again promoted as captain of his company, which position he held until after the close of the war. Was mustered ont of service November 7th, 1865, and returned to his home in Ohio. In the spring of 1867 started west and crossed the Missouri river at Decatur, took passage on the stage going north to Dakota county, arriving at Isaac Monroe's place (now owned by George Peterson) March 15th. He began the next day to drive the stage, which carried the mail between Monroe's place and Sioux City. Was married to Miss Sarah Dorsey, at Dakota City, Sep- tember 23rd, 1868, by Judge Samuel Whitehorn. Was appointed farmer at the Winnebago Agency, by Agent Col. Arthur Edwards, in 1880. In 1881 moved


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to Dakota City, and returned to Jackson in the spring of 1882, where he again opened up a meat market. Was again appointed as farmer at the Winnebago Agency, by Charles H. Potter, which position he held until he received a license as Indian trader at the same agency, under Agent J. F. Warner. Mr. Hedges has always been considered, by those who have had deal- ings with him, to be an honest, upright citizen. Has two children, Blanche and Thomas.


WILLIAM LAPSLEY was born Angust 5, 1805, in Indiana county, Pennsylvania. and came to Dakota. county, March 19. 1867. Settled on a farm southwest of Dakota City. Married to Isabella Matthews in 1835. He died at his residence September 17, 1887, leaving a wife and eight children -four sons, James J .. William, of Pennsylvania, Robert L. and John A .: four daughters, Mrs. J. N. Hamilton, Eliza J., Rebecca and Matilda B.


DAVID Y. HILEMAN was born in Pennsylvania in 1828, and landed upon Dakota county soil March 22. 1867. Purchased a tract of land of Geo. T. Woods. six miles southwest of Dakota City, where he has re- sided to the present time. His wife died leaving two sons -Woods M. and Robert O .; two danghters, Mrs. Dennis Armour and Mrs. Albert Heikes. Mr. Hile- man is one of the prominent men of the county and he always has been considered as an honest and upright citizen.


DANIEL SULLIVAN came to Dakota county, March 22, 1867. Was married the same year. Has one son and four daughters; one child died. Lives eight miles northwest of Jackson.


JOHN H. BRIDENBAUGH was born September 30th, 1820, Petersburg. Huntington county, Pennsylvania. Spent his early days on the farm, afterwards learned the milling business; was married to Rosana Wertz,


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in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania, January 26. 1843. Was a soldier in the late war and "with the soldiers stood." Enlisted in Company F. 55th Pennsylvania Vet. Inft., February 13, 1864. "Marched down to Washington" and was discharged in 1865. In the spring of 1867 he became convinced that the great west was the place for him and began preparations for a journey to Nebraska, crossing the Missouri river at Sionx City, April 16. Moved his family to the old Charley Eckhart place. two miles directly south of Dakota City. December 1869, moved down and took charge of the Oaks mill, where he remained until April 1970, when he went to Jackson and took charge of the grist mill at that place. Here he remained until November 1870, when he purchased a tract of land of Anthony J. Myres, six miles sonthwest of Dakota City. where he has resided to the present time. His wife died December 29, 1891, leaving eight children-six sons, Phillip W., John, Benjamin N., Samuel A .. William II. and Ulysses G .; two danghters. Rebecca and Mrs. Mary Fair of Pennsylvania. Four children have died.


M. J. HERMANN looked ont upon what was after wards to be known as Dakota county, in May, 1855. From the Blyburg hills to the bluffs at St. John's, he beheld one vast expanse of wild prairies and almost un- penetrable jungles. He was on his way to the Yellow- stone river on the steamer "Genora," with Thogmartin as captain and Garman. clerk. Saw great herds of buffalo,and the Indians showed such a war- like disposi- tion that the boat was anchored in mid-river to keep them from attacking it. They killed their own meat and chopped their own wood. As they passed along by the beautiful lands of northeastern Nebraska. Capt. Thogmartin said: "Mr. Hermann, I do not ex- poet to live to see it myself, but should you live to be fifty years old, von will see this one of the grandest


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counties in the world." Lived in Sionx City in 1869 and afterwards was engaged in business in Omaha. Moved with his family to Dakota county, March 1879 and went into business in Homer, under the firm name of Nash & Hermann, dealers in general merchandise, which was afterwards dissolved and Mr. H. established · a store of his own. The store with all goods was burned in 1893. M. J. Hermann was born December 16, 1839, in St. Charles Parish, Lonisana. Worked on boat be- tween New Orleans and St. Paul and also on the Ohio and Missouri rivers. Remembers the time when there was not a single honse between St. Joe and Council Bluffs. Was employed on the boat that brought Capt. ()'Connor to the county.


CHRIS MIKESELL was born in 1839 and came to Da- kota county in the spring of 1867. Bought John Naff- zigger's farm. Was married in 1869 in Pennsylvania, to Julia F. Fair and returned to Nebraska, arriving here "with the girl he had left behind him" March 20. Settled on a farm where he now resides, three miles west of Dakota City. Has one son -- Willian F .: fonr daughters-Nellie, Mary, Gertie and Lizzie.


LUTHER LIARDEN was born December 27, 1833, and came with his parents to Iowa in 1837. Was married to Sarah Jane Underwood March 6, 1857, in Jefferson county, Iowa. Moved to Dakota county May 9, 1867. and camped near C. D. Martin's old pre-emption cabin that night. Afterwards lived in Dakota City, where he was engaged in butchering business. Located on a farm one-half mile north of Dakota City where he still residles. Has two children -- Mrs. John Orr and Burt G.




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