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The father is deceased. Mr. Sanders came to Grand Junction in April, 1871, and en- gaged in keeping a restaurant and billiard hall. He spent two years at Rippey, this county, then returned to Grand Junction. He was married in England May 2, 1856, to Miss Ann Downey, daughter of John Downey, deceased. They have had nine children, eight of whom are living-William T., James, Ilarry, Annie, Charley, Lillic, May and Rosa. James married Ida Staley, who is recently deceased, and has one child-William. Annie married Clem Edson, of Sanborn, this State.
B. HAIGIIT, a farmer of Kendrick Township, is one of the intelligent and enterprising citizens of Greene County, and was born in Lenawee County, Michigan, December 8, 1831, son of Benja- min and Alma (Beech) Haight, the former a native of New York, and the latter of Ver- mont. They were the parents of teu chil- dren, our subject being the third child. He was reared a farmer and educated in the com- mon schools. When he was thirteen years of age his parents removed to Walworth County, Wisconsin, where he lived seven years, then returned to his native State. He was united in marriage, April 11, 1855, with Miss Harriet A. Wood, who was born in the State of New York, and reared in Michigan. Her parents were Harry and Ann (Cure) Wood. Mr. Haight remained in Michigan, engaged in contracting and building. until 1859, when he removed to Walworth County, Wisconsin, where he lived until 1868, then removed to Clinton, Iowa, remaining in that place about ten years, then came to Greene County, this State. He settled upon his present farm in 1882. Ile owns 240 acres of excellent land, well improved and in a
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good state of cultivation. He has a good story-and-a-half residence, surrounded with shade and ornamental trees, a fine orehard and a large native grove. Mr. and Mrs. Haight are the parents of three children- Cynthia May, now Mrs. Hicks, W. N. and Adelbert M. Mr. Haight is a member of the Masonic fraternity, and belongs to Lodge No. 402, and is master of the same. Politi- cally he affiliates with the Republican party.
ANIEL EDWARDS, farmer, section 25, Jackson Township, owns 120 acres of very choice land, and it is one of the most productive farms in the county. Mr. Edwards was born in Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, May 8, 1829. His parents, Daniel and Mary Edwards, were born, reared and married in Wales, and their three oldest children were born in that conntry. Daniel is the eighth in a family of nine children. His parents settled in Armstrong County. where the father died in 1836, leaving 180 acres of land. After his death the property descended to Edward, the second son, who became the supporter of the family. Selling the property, he settled in Mercer County, Pennsylvania, where he is still living on the old homestead in Armstrong County, upon which is one of the heaviest flowing oil wells in that State. The mother lived with Ed- ward until her death, surviving her husband nearly thirty years. Four of her sons and two daughters are living- Edward, William, Mrs. Mary Springer, of Pennsylvania; Elias, of Jasper County, this State; Mrs. Amelia Hogeland, of Fayette County, and Daniel. Mr. Edwards was married July 23, 1855, in Mercer County, Pennsylvania, to Miss Naney Jane Tubbs, who was born in New York July 29. 1838. They settled in Mckean
County, where they lived until 1867, when Mr. Edwards sold his farm and removed to IHillsdale County, Michigan. One year later he came to Jasper County, this State, where he owned at different times three good farms. HIe resided there until 1882, then became a resident of Greene County. Here he has also made several changes, living the first year on a farm in Grant Township, owned by Captain Head, in the meantime buying prop- erty near the fair grounds at Jefferson, which he sold without occupying. In 1883 he bought a good farm of 160 aeres in Bristol Township, seetion 34, and moved there in March, 1886. IIe exchanged that property with Mr. James Averill for his present home, and feels perfectly satisfied to make a per- manent home. Mr. and Mrs. Edwards have ten children-Mrs. Mary Ann Mitchell, of Jasper County, this State; Timothy D., a farmer of Jackson Township; H. Orrisavilla, Etta May, Frederick, Eva, Flora, Jennie, Lulu and Eda. Nellie died at the age of five years. Mr. and Mrs. Edwards have been in sympathy with the Christian church for many years. Politically he is an ardent Republican.
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ENJAMIN BOLIN, farmer and stock- raiser, seetion 16, Innetion Township. where he has eighty aeres of choice land, was born in Owen County, Indiana, Novem- ber 25, 1839, his father, Benajal Bolin, who is now deceased, having been born in the State of North Carolina. Our subjeet was reared to the avocation of a farmer, which he has made his life-work, and received his edu- cation in the common schools of his native county. He served as a soldier for three years during the war of the Rebellion, en- listing in Company H, Fourteenth Indiana
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Infantry, and participated in a number of ! battles, including the battles at Winchester, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Spottsylvania, Cold Harbor, Petersburg, battle of the Wilderness and the seven days' fight on the peninsula. After the war he returned to his native county, and in 1871 removed to Christian County, Indi- ana, where he remained until 1875. In Feb- rnary of that year he came to Iowa, and lived in Boone County until 1876, since which he has made his home in Greene County, Iowa. October 14, 1878, he was nnited in mar- riage to Mrs. Rilla Hagood, a daughter of Jesse IIarden, deceased. She has one child
W. PARK, stock and Inmber dealer at Jefferson, has been a resident of Greene County, since May, 1869. At by her first husband, a son, named Charles | that time he settled on section 32, Grant E. Ilagood. In politics Mr. Bolin casts his : Township. The farm was wholly unim- suffrage with the Republican party. He is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic. Quiet, nnassuming, industrious and strictly honorable in all his dealings, Mr. Bolin has gained the confidence and respect of all who know him.
ARDON ALONZO SMITH is a son of Pardon and Jane (Maby) Smith. They were natives of New York, came to Ohio in 1834, to Illinois in 1839, and to lowa in 1856, locating in Clinton County, where both died. Pardon was born in Ogle County, Illinois, September 1, 1840, and lived with his parents till nearly twenty-one. He enlisted in August, 1861, in the Eighth Iowa Volunteer Infantry, and served till September 28, 1864. He then farmed in Clinton County till 1868, and in Greene County till 1878. He was then in Kansas for two years; next farmed for two years more in Greene County. After this he was for two years marshal and street commis- sioner of Scranton. In February, 1884, he Stafford, Orange County, Vermont, in 1821,
bought the Journal, to which he has since devoted his time. Ile was married February 9, 1865, to Miss R. L. Alger, of De Witt, Clinton County. They have six children- Lowrie (foreman in the Journal office), Ar- thur A., Claude D., Edith G., Mary Pearl and Orrin Leo. Mr. Smith is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, and, with his wife, belongs to the Adventist church.
proved, and the township neighbors were very scarce, the principal settlements being along the streams. Mr. Park improved the place, lived upon it abont twelve years, then sold it to Mrs. Meath, who still owns it. He removed to Jefferson in the spring of 1880, and in 1885 he built his present fine resi- dence on North Main street. Mr. Park is a member of the firm of MeCarty & Park, extensive stoek-dealers. It is one of the largest firms of that kind in Iowa, having buyers at different stations along the narrow gauge railroad. Mr. Park is also a member of the lumber firm of Best & Park. He is a native of the Green Mountain State, born in Windsor County, where he was reared to agricultural pursuits. In 1857 he went to Mazomanie, Dane County, Wisconsin, where he settled upon a new farm, which he im- proved and lived upon until he came to Greene County. He has been twice married. His first wife, whom he married in Vermont, was Lydia Jane Arnold, who died in Mazo- manie. IIis present wife was Mrs. Lucia M. Stone, née Chamberlain, who was born in
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and a daughter of Samuel Chamberlain, who died in Vermont. She went to Mazomanie in 1866. Mr. Park's parents, Thomas and Lucinda Park, both died at that place, at the advanced age of eighty-four years. Mr. and Mrs. Park have three children-Ada, wife of Edwin Williams; Ella L., wife of William T. Anderson, and Frank L., who is in Cali- fornia. Mrs. Park had three children by a former marriage, two of whom are living --- Charles H., Crawford and Genevieve Stone.
ENRY B. HEATHI. one of the progress- ive farmers of Greene County, residing on section S, Hardin Township, is a native of Ogle County, Illinois, born August 28, 1844. His parents, Duna and Mermion (Webster) Ileatlı, were natives of the State of New York, from whenee they immigrated to Black Hawk County, Iowa, where the mother still lives at the age of sixty-eight years. The father died in Iowa County, Iowa, in the year 1867. The father being a farmer, Henry B., our subject, was reared to the same avocation. At the age of nineteen years he enlisted in the late war, and was assigned to Company H., Sixth Iowa Cavalry. He was in the division known as the Army of the West, under General Sulley, and par- tieipated in the battles of White Stone Hill, Collins Springs, and several others of less note. He served in defense of his country two years and was mustered ont at Sioux City, Iowa, receiving his final discharge at Davenport, Iowa, when he returned to his native State and engaged in farming. He left his native State with his parents in 1855, immigrating to Black Hawk County, Iowa, where he remained five years. He then re- moved to Linn County, Iowa, remaining there till he settled on his present farm in
Hardin Township, Greene County, in 1883. He was married in March, 1873, to Sarah Oliver, who was born in Pennsylvania in March, 1846, a daughter of William and Mary (Davey) Oliver, natives of England. They are the parents of five children-Annie, born in March, 1875; Lura, in August, 1877; Henry E., in October, 1879; James O., in August, 1881, and Clarence H., in June, 1885. Mr. Heath is one of the active and enterprising citizens, and has identified him- self with the wealth and progress of Greene County, and is numbered among its best farmers. In polities he easts his suffrage with the Democratic party. Postoffice, Jet- ferson, Iowa.
JEORGE W. THOMPSON resides on the southeast quarter of section 32, Grant Township, where he settled in 1883. He purchased his farm of 160 acres of O. W. Park, who made the first improve- ments. Mr. Thompson was born in Jackson County, Indiana, in 1850. Ilis parents were James H. and Ann Thompson. the father dying when George was eleven years of age, after the family had removed to Han- eoek County, Illinois. The family remained in that county until 1865, when they removed to La Salle County, same State. In 1874 George W. came to Greene County and pur- chased a farm in Franklin Township, and in 1879 the family settled upon that farm. In 1882 lie purchased his present farm, and the following year the family settled upon it. James HI. Thompson and wife had ten chil- dren, only two of whom are living-Mrs. Elizabeth Giddons and our subject. The mother died March 14, 1886, at the house of her son George. One of the sous was a soldier in the war of the Rebellion, being a
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member of the One Hundred and Nineteenth Illinois. He died at Memphis in the spring of 1864. Our subject was married in Illinois to Ella Meath, a daughter of Thomas and Anna Meath. The father died in Mendota November 1, 1879, and the mother resides in Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. Thompson have six children-Blanche, May, Albert, Augusta, Anna and Ellen. Harry, the eldest, died at the age of sixteen months, and Paul died at the age of seven years.
TILLIAM WILSON, of Jefferson, settled in Bristol Township in 1869. He purchased 105 acres of land of William Combs, on which very little improve- ment had been made. Several years later he sold forty acres of his original purchase, and bought fifteen aeres adjoining. Ile resided on this place until 1882, when he sold ont to Thaddeus Banks and removed to Jefferson. Mr. Wilson was born in the town of Fran- conia, Grafton County, New Hampshire, in 1813. He was married in his native State to Almira Everett, who was born in Hanover, that State, in 1814. In September, 1856, Mr. Wilson emigrated with his family to Janesville, Rock County, Wiseonsin, where he carried on the dairy business one year. In 1859 he removed to the town of Windsor, Dane County, where he worked a large farm for a number of years. In January, 1864, he enlisted in the Third Wisconsin Cavalry, and served until the elose of the war. Three of his sons also were in the army, and all in Wisconsin regiments. His son Samuel served three years in the Second Wisconsin Infantry, which was a part of the celebrated Iron Brigade; he was severely wounded in the left foot at the battle of Gettysburg, July 3, 1863. He is now a resident of Bristol
Township. The second son, Nathaniel I]., served in the Second Wisconsin Cavalry, and is a resident of La Crosse, Wisconsin. Dan- iel W. served in the Forty-first Wisconsin, and now resides in Webster County, this State. Mr. and Mrs. Wilson have four other children-Sarah, wife of M. D. Starring; her first husband, Thomas Woodard, was a soldier in a Wisconsin regiment, and died soon after the war; Alice is the wife of Daniel Conant; Addie is the wife of George W. Day, of Jefferson; Rufus A. is the young- est child. Mr. Wilson's parents were Daniel and Rebecca Wilson, natives of Grafton County. New Hampshire, where they lived until their decease. Mrs. Wilson's parents were Samuel and Mina Dell Everett, also natives of Grafton County, where they spent all their lives. Mr. and Mrs. Wilson have been consistent members of the Methodist Episcopal church for thirty years. Politi- eally they are all Republicans.
TAMES C. KINSMAN came to this county in 1873, and resides on the south- east quarter of seetion 5, Bristol Township. Hle came from Linn County, this State, ae- companied by his family and widowed mother. The latter died July 20, 1884, aged sixty- nine years and two months. Mr. Kinsman was born in Westmoreland County, Pennsyl- vania, March 14, 1849, son of Asher and Sarahı (MeDowell) Kinsman, who were natives of that State. In 1857 the family located in what is now West Cedar Rapids, Linn County, and six years later removed to a farm twelve miles south of Cedar Rapids, where the father died a few years afterward. Of their seven children, five are living-Mrs. Mary Bedell, of Jefferson; James C., Mrs. Hannah C. Gray, of Ohio; Jacob, a resident
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of Independence. Iowa, and William, of Bristol Township. February 10, 1873, Mr. Kins- man was married to Miss Hester Listerbar- ger, danghter of John and Maria Listerbarger, formerly of Westmoreland County. Penn- sylvania. Her parents were among the pio- neer settlers of Linn County, settling where Cedar Rapids now stands in 1840. The father died December 13, 1862, aged forty- nine years. The mother still survives and resides at the old homestead, six miles sonth of Cedar Rapids. They had nine children, six of whom are living- Mrs. Catherine Mc- Dowell, of Linn County; George, also of Linn County; Mrs. Kinsman, Mrs. Mat- thews. Mrs. Mary Smithers, of Arkansas, and Frank, who lives on the old homestead in Linn County. Mr. and Mrs. Kinsman have lived in their present home since their mar- riage. They have five sons-Charles G., Robert E., Roy S., John Guy and George W. Mr. Kinsman owns 200 acres of land, all well improved. In politics he is a Republi- ean, and has held several positions of trust in Bristol Township. Mrs. Kinsman's mother boarded the man who built the first dam across the Cedar River at Cedar Rapids. The first store opened on the west side, at that place, was in her father's barn. Her mother's brother, David King, operated the first ferry at Cedar Rapids.
SAAC I. MATTESON. of the firm of Matteson Brothers, carriage manufactur- ers at Grand Junetion, was born in Kane County, Illinois, August 20, 1855. His father, now deceased, was a native of the State of New York, an early settler of Kane County, and came to Greene County in 1867. Isaac J. was reared on a farm and educated in the common schools. In 1869 he went to
learn the trade of carriage and wagon maker, and in 1870 came to this county, living in this and Carroll counties ever since. IIe came to Grand Junction in 1880, and built a large factory, 22 x 110 feet, and in 1882 took his brother William as partner. They make carriages, buggies, wagons, road carts, sleighs, etc., and are doing a good business. They do all of their own painting and finishing. Mr. Matteson was married September 10, 1874. to Miss Idell Powell, daughter of Henry Powell, deceased. They have two children- Guy and Clarence.
EORGE LUNNON, farmer, section 19, Franklin Township, is a native of Buck- inghamshire, England, born December 25, 1843, son of George and Ann (Jenkins) Lunnon, who were the parents of eight chil- dren-Emma, George, Sarah, Lizzie, Rich- ard, William, John and Martha. When George was a babe his parents removed to the West India Islands, where they lived two and a half years, when they came to the United States, locating in Baltimore, Mary- land, where they lived abont nine years, then came to Johnson County, this State. George was reared a gardener, and obtained his edu- cation by studying at home. In August, 1862, he enlisted in Company B, Twenty- second Iowa Infantry, and was engaged in the battles of Port Gibson, Champion Hills, Black River, siege of Vicksburg. Raymond, Jackson, Mississippi, and Winehester City. During the last mentioned battle our subject lost his right leg in an attempt to capture a rebel flag. He was confined in hospital from September 19, 1864. until May 5, 1865, first at Baltimore, and later at Davenport, where he was honorably discharged. In 1867 Mr. Lnnnon removed to Omaha, Nebraska, where
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he spent six months, thence to Lincoln for two months, thence to Iowa City for three months, thence to Des Moines. Ile was married August 15, 1879, to Miss Emily Smith, who was born in Iloricon, Missouri, and a daughter of Abner and Sarah Smith. Mr. Lunnon resided in Des Moines until 1876, when he came to this county and lo- cated upon his present farm, where he has sinee resided. His farm contains 100 acres of well-tilled land. He has a good residence, and comfortable buildings for stock and grain. He also has a fine orchard and a native grove, which gives his farm a fine appearance. Mr. and Mrs. Lunnon had three children-Sarah Jane, William and Laura Ann. Mrs. Lunnon died January 1, 1880. Politieally Mr. Lun- non affiliates with the Republican party.
ICHARD L. HOWARD, an enterpris- ing agriculturist of Junction Township, residing on section 2, is a native of Ohio, born in Stark County December 12, 1849, a son of Lucins and Rose (Farwell) Howard, who were born in Vermont and New Hampshire respectively, the father now deceased. Our subjeet was reared to agri- cultural pursuits, and has made that the principal avocation of his life, in which he has met with excellent success. He received a fair common-school education in his youth, attending the schools at Keene, Coshocton County, Ohio. He came to Greene County, Iowa, in 1870, settling where he now lives in Junction Township, where he has a valuable farm of 265 acres. He was united in mar- riage November 30. 1871, to Miss Nettie Cooper, a daughter of Ludlow Cooper, who was a soldier in the war of 1812. He died at an advanced age in the spring of 1884. Of the three children born to Mr. and Mrs.
Howard, two are living-William and War- ner. A daughter, Carrie, died at the age of eight years. In connection with his general farming Mr. Howard is engaged in raising stock, making a specialty of Poland-China hogs. He has held the office of township clerk for the past seven years, serving with credit to himself and to the best interests of his township. IIe is a member of the Masonic fraternity, belonging to the lodge at Grand Junction. In her religious faith Mrs. Howard is a Presbyterian.
M RS. REBECCA A. ALLEN, proprie- tor of a boarding-house at Grand Junction, was born in Oswego County, New York, August 20, 1832, danghter of Amos Burrows, deceased. Jannary 23, 1850. she was married to John Allen, and has had six children, two of whom are living- Amelia J. and Austin D. Charley Frank died at the age of five years. Amelia mar- ried G. B. Burk, and has two living children -- Ida B. and Fannie T. Mr. Burk died, and Mrs. Burk married William Pierce of this place. They have one child-Fred A. Austin married Mary Steberg, living in Angus, this State, and they have two children- Lena A. and larry D. Mrs. Allen removed with her husband to MeDonough County, Illinois, in 1853, and to this county one year later, set- tling in Washington Township. then a wild country. They entered their land at Des Moines. which was then a small place, about the size of Grand Junction. They did most of their trading at Des Moines, about fifty miles distant; also had to go there or to Boone County to get their corn ground. The terrible severe weather killed their eow. Mrs. Allen saw droves of elk, deer, etc., in great numbers; also saw lynx. She has
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endured all the hardships and privations of pioneer life, having grubbed land herself to make her garden. There was but one house where Jefferson now stands when Mr. and and Mrs. Allen settled in the county, that was a log house. She sold produce np and down the railroad for some time. She came to Grand Junction in 1872, and kept the St. Louis House two years, then kept the Allen House nine years. She is now keeping a first-class boarding house, and is having a good patronage, which she richly deserves.
ILLIAM II. PERKINS, of Scranton, Greene County, was born in Adams, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, the date of his birth being October 30, 1838, a son of William and Eliza (Hathaway) Perkins. The father of our subject was a native of Massachusetts, and died when he was a child. The mother subsequently married again, and by her second marriage had several children. She died in Massachusetts in 1882. William H. was the only child of her first marriage. He grew to manhood in his native State, being reared to the avocation of a farmer. In April, 1861, soon after the firing on Fort Sumter Mr. Perkins enlisted in Company B, Tenth Massachusetts Infantry, the brigade to which he belonged consisting of the Tenth and Seventh Massachusetts, the Second Rhode Island, and the Thirty-sixth New York regi- inents. In the winter of 1861 the brigade was engaged in building forts Massachusetts and Slocum, which constituted a part of the defenses of Washington. In 1862 it took part in MeClelland's Peninsular campaign, participating in all of the principal battles of that campaign. Soon after the evacuation of Harrison's landing, Mr. Perkins was taken siek, when he was sent to a hospital at Phila-
delphia. When he had partially recovered he was sent to the eamp of distribution at Alexandria, but getting worse, he was dis- charged January 10, 1863, when he returned to Massachusetts. His health having suffi- eiently recovered be re-enlisted in the First New York Light Artillery, Battery A, which was first stationed at Allegheny City, Penn- sylvania, then at Ilarrisburg, and finally at Chambersburg, where our subject remained till the elose of the war, when he returned home without wounds but with health per- inanently impaired. After the war he was married to Miss Aliee E. Burt, a native of Berkshire County, Massachusetts. Mr. Per- kins left Massachusetts with his family in 1872, when he settled in Rochelle, Ogle County, Illinois, eoming thence to Seranton March 5, 1879, where he has sinee made his home. Politically Mr. Perkins is a Republi- ean, casting his first presidential vote for Abraham Lincoln in 1860.
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M ICHAEL JOSEPH QUIRK. pastor of Grand Junction Catholic church, was born in Vieksburg, Mississippi, November 29, 1838, son of Edwin Quirk, of Delaware County, Iowa, who was born in Cork, Ireland, and is over one hundred years old. He is still hale and vigorous. His mother was Joanna Shane, a native of Quebec, Canada. The father was in Chieago when there was nothing to indicate the future great eity except the barraeks and a tavern. Our sub- jeet was educated at St. Mary's Seminary in Perry County, Missouri, and at St. Vincent's College at Cape Girardeau, and in St. Thomas' Seminary at Bardstown, Kentucky. He received his theologieal education at St. Frances' Theological College of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, graduating there in 1870. He
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