Harrison County IA Archives Biographies.....Yeisley, Reuben 
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Source: History of Western Iowa, Its Settlement and Growth; 1882
Author: Western Publishing Company

Reuben Yeisley, architect, contractor, and builder, was born in Pa. in 1836;
located in Harrison county in 1858, settled at Little Sioux and worked at his
trade; in 1862 was elected drainage commissioner, and in the fall of 1863, was
elected recorder and treasurer of county, and at the expiration of the term, was
employed by the railroad company buying rights of way and land for the company.
In 1867 he engaged in mercantile business, at Magnolia, and sold out in 1870,
and engaged in manufacturing woolen goods, and milling, near Woodbine; sold to
Noyes & Adams in 1874, and engaged in his present business. He is a member of
the A. F. & A. M. order. He was married in 1861, at Little Sioux to Effie H.
Schoefield, and has one son and three daughters.


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From Harrison County Chapter, Woodbine Biographies.

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