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Book Title: History Of Western Iowa, Its Settlement And Growth

HARRISON COUNTY BIOGRAPHIES

MISSOURI VALLEY.

S. Altshuler, dealer in dry goods and clothing, came to Ia. in 1864, and located
at Council Bluffs; established his present business in Missouri Valley in 1867.
He has a fine store on the corner of Fourth and Erie streets, and carries a
large stock of goods.

M. I. Bailey, attorney at law, established business in 1875. He was born in
Delaware county, N. Y., in 1847; removed to Missouri Valley, Ia., in 1875, and
engaged in the practice of law. He married C. L. Ames, a native of N. Y. Mr. B.
is the present mayor of this city.

J. H. Ball, proprietor of billiard parlor -— cor. 6th and Huron sts —- is a
native of Ind.; moved to Knoxville, Marion county, Ia., with parents in 1851. In
1862 he engaged in freighting in company with J. B. Beard, which he continued
until 1865. He then traveled through the territories until he settled in Council
Bluffs in 1869; moved to Missouri Valley in 1878, and engaged in his present
business.

J. T. Baldwin, foreman of the boiler shops at Missouri Valley, was born in Md.
He was employed in the navy yards at Washington, D. C., until 1868, when he
moved to Omaha. Neb., and was in the employ of the U. P. R. R.; came to this
city in 1870, and assumed his present position.



C. H. Barber, proprietor of the Palace billiard parlor, is a native of N. Y.;
removed to Clinton, Ia., in 1878, and was in the employ of the Union Iron Works;
thence to Missouri Valley in 1879, and was in the employ of the railroad
companies until 1881, when he established his present business.

J. M. Berry, proprietor of the city livery, is a native of Ind,; came with
parents to Harrison county. Ia., in 1855, was engaged in farming until 1879,
when he came to Missouri Valley and engaged in his present business.

T. N. Berry, of the firm of Morgan & Berry, grocers, was born in Pottawattamie
county, Ia., in 1855; moved with his parents to Harrison county in 1856. He
located in Missouri Valley in 1879, and was engaged in the livery business until
1881, when he entered the above firm.

J.L. Berkley, of the firm of Grigsby & Berkley, dealers in general merchandise,
is a native of Va.; moved to Magnolia, Harrison county, Ia., in 1872; thence to
Missouri Valley in 1876, and engaged in milling until Oct., 1881, when he
engaged in his present usiness, with W. E. Grigsby, a wealthy farmer of Harrison
county.

E. A. Boies, dealer in general hardware, is a native of O.; moved to Magnolia,
Harrison county, Ia., in 1867, and to Missouri Valley in 1869 and was employed
as salesman and journeyman tinner in the hardware business. He engaged in the
business for himself in 1877, sold out after two vears, and resumed business
again in May, 1881.

Mrs. A. E. Bresee, dealer in millinery and fancy goods, located in Crawford
county, Ia. in 1877, and moved to Missouri Valley in 1879, and engaged in
present business; carries a large and complete stock of goods, and does all
branches of millinery work.

W. H. Bradley, jr., of the firm of Walker & Bradley, dealers in general
merchandise, is a native of Canada; came to the U. S. in 1869, and located at
Missouri Valley, Ia. He was employed as salesman in the mercantile business,
until he entered his present business in 1878.

L. Brown, attorney at law, was born in Jackson county, O., in 1845; removed to
Appanoose county, Ia., where he lived until he moved to Missouri Valley. He is a
graduate of the Iowa State University. He married Fanny G. Manning, a native of
Iowa.

W. P. Bump, of the firm of Bump & Smith, dealers in general merchandise, was
born in Addison county, Vt., in 1811; moved to western N. Y. in 1831, and in
1836 he engaged in the mercantile business; continued there until 1856, when he
removed to Rochelle, Ill.; thence to Missouri Valley in 1869, and engaged in his
present business.

D. Burgess, proprietor of billiard parlor, was born in Courtland county, N. Y.
He was employed for several years as conductor on the S. B. & N. Y. Ry., also
was telegraph operator for same road. He moved to Neb. in 1875, and engaged in
the stock business; removed to Missouri Valley in 1877 and engaged in his
present business, on the corner of Fifth and Erie sts.

C. J., T. C. & W. M. Carlisle, of the firm of Carlisle Bros., wholesale and
retail dealers in hardware, wagon stocks, pumps, agricultural implements, and
sewing machines, are natives of O.; came to Missouri Valley, Ia., in 1872, and
engaged in their present business.

W. M. Chenoweth, manufacturer of cigars, is a native of Pa.; came to Missouri
Valley in 1879, and engaged in his present business. He employs five men in the
busy season.

J. C. Caley, dealer in boots and shoes, was born in Cleveland, Ohio. He enlisted
in Co. I, 29th O. Vol., served one year, and in the spring of 1863 went to
Montana; returned to Ohio in 1864, and two years later came to Missouri Valley,
and built the first building in the town, excepting a few R. R. buildings. He is
the pioneer boot and shoe dealer of the city.

Wm. Conner, engineer for the S. C. & P. transfer company, was born in Va. in
1842; moved to Ill. in 1849, and in 1859 engaged in steamboating on the
Mississippi river. In 1866 he went to Quincy, Ill., and took charge of the
machine shops for two years; then came to Missouri Valley and was employed in
his present position. He has been absent one year since coming to this city,
traveling on the Pacific coast.

Maj. J. F. Cheney, senior proprietor of the Merchants and Depot Hotels at Sioux
City, Ia., also of a Hotel at Blair, Neb., and the Union Hotel at Missouri
Valley, was born in Grafton county, N. H. In 1861 he enlisted in the 1st Ill.
Light Art. as a private, was soon promoted to first lieutenant, then to captain,
then to major and when discharged at the close of the war was lieutenant
colonel. He then opened the Nachusa house at Dixon, Ill., also a summer resort
at Spring Lake, Mich., called the Spring Lake house. He moved to Sioux City and
opened the Merchants Hotel, in 1880, and his other hotel soon after. Major C. is
one of the oldest hotel men in the country, and all of his hotels will be found
to be first class.

G. W. Coit, M. D., was born in N. J., in 1837; was assistant surgeon during the
latter part of the war of the rebellion. He graduated from the Bellevue
Hospital, M. Y. in March 1866, and came to Harrison county in Nov. of the same
year, and located at St. Johns; the following Februarv, removed to Missouri
Valley. He has been government examining surgeon for Western Iowa ten years.

J. H. Crowder, postmaster, also dealer in books, jewelry and fancy goods, is a
native of Ind.; removed to Harrison county in 1866. He enlisted in the war of
the rebellion, in the 18th Ia. Reg.; was a member of the band. He was appointed
postmaster in 1871, which office he has since held.

N. S. Dahl, jeweler, is a native of Denmark; came to America in 1873, and
settled in Chicago. He engaged in the jewelry business in various parts of the
west, until 1879, when he located in Missouri Valley and opened his present
business.

F. L. Davis, insurance agent, was born in Western N. Y. He enlisted in 1861 in
Co. E, 5th N. Y. Cav., was discharged in 1862 and returned to N. Y., and soon
after was appointed deputy sheriff of Cattaraugus county. He came to Iowa in
1870 and located at River Sioux; in 1872 moved to Missouri Valley and engaged in
the livery business; was also deputy sheriff for several years. In 1878 he
engaged in his present business.

C. H. Davis, was born in Penobscot county, Me., in 1839; moved to Mass. in 1852
and went to sea as a cabin boy. At the breaking out of the war in 1801 he
enlisted in the navy in Com. Farragut's fleet; was transferred to Com.
Dahlgren's fleet in 1864. He left the navy at the close of the war and in 1866
moved to Council Bluffs, Ia., and was engaged as engineer on the Missouri river,
until coming to Missouri Valley; is here employed by the S. C. & P. R. R. company.

F. M. Dance, attorney at law, was born in Wis. in 1838; moved to Missouri
Valley, Ia.. in 1868 and engaged in general law and real estate business. He
graduated from the law department of the Ann Arbor University, in 1867.

C. H. Deur, lumber dealer, was born in N. Y.; moved with his parents in 1860 to
Pottawattamie county, Ia.; thence to Missouri Valley in 1877 and engaged in his
present business. He has always a good supply of hard and soft coal, builders'
supplies, lime, hair, cement, etc.

M. S. Frick, of the firm of Frick & Snyder, dealers in general merchandise, is a
native of Pa.; moved to la. in 1865 and to Harrison county in 1868, was engaged
in contracting and building, then dealing in furniture, previous to engaging in
his present business in the spring of 1881.

Geo. S. Green, of the firm of G. S. Green & Co., proprietors of the Commercial
House, is a native of N. Y.; moved to Vinton, Ia. in 1868; thence to Missouri
Valley in 1875 and was engaged in various business houses, also in the
postoffice, until Nov., 1881, when he purchased the hotel and engaged in his
present business.

L. Marker, dealer in stock, is one of the pioneers of Harrison county, Ia., came
to this county in 1867 and located at St. Johns, and engaged in the grocery
business. He moved to Missouri Valley the same year and continued the grocery
business; is now buying and selling stock.

J. J. Hancock, tobacco dealer, was born in England in 1830; came to America in
1851, and located at London, Canada; removed to Buffalo, N. Y., in 1853, and
engaged in the boot and shoe business. He removed to Dubuque, Ia., in 1858;
thence to Sioux Falls, Dak., in 1871, where he resumed the boot and shoe
business. In 1878 he was in the employ of the American Express Company. In 1879
he located in Missouri Valley.

Hon. D. M. Harris, senior member of the firm of Harris & Son, editors and
proprietors of the Missouri Valley Times, was born in Dayton, Montgomery county,
O., in 1821, and moved with parents to Ind. in 1824; thence to Maury county,
Tenn. In 1854, he came to Audubon county, Ia., and engaged in farming and the
real estate business, and there served three terms as county judge. He
represented the 26th Iowa district during two sessions of the legislature. He
next removed to Panora, Guthrie county, and engaged in the practice of law, also
editing and publishing the Guthrie County Ledger. In 1868 he first came to
Missouri Valley and established the Harrisonian, which he sold in 1872, the name
of the paper being changed to the Missouri Valley Times. In the the same year he
moved to Independence, Kas., and published the Kansas Democrat, returned to
Missouri Valley in 1873, engaging in the mercantile business. His establishment
was shortly afterwards destroyed by fire, and he located at Exira, which town he
had previously "laid out," and began the publication of the Audubon County
Defender. Soon afterwards he published the Cap-Sheaf, at Atlantic, Cass county,
which he conducted until 1876, when he resumed the publication of the Times at
Missouri Valley. He was married in 1842 to Martha M. White, of Tenn.; has six
sons and four daughters. Mr. Harris was the democratic candidate for lieutenant
governor of Ia., in 1866, and was twice a candidate for county representative
from Harrison county. He has held a number of minor offices, Robert H. Harris is
a son of Judge Harris, and junior member of the firm. He was born in Tenn., in
1854, and in 1874 was married to Frances Chapman, of Exira, Ia. They have two sons.

E. F. James, dealer in agricultural implements, pumps, windmills, etc., is a
native of Pa., lived during youth in Ill.; moved to Missouri Valley, Ia., in
1868. He engaged in railroading, until 1873, when he engaged in his present
business; is also proprietor of the James line of drays and express wagons.

J. B. Lucas, attorney at law. was born in Lucas county, Ia., in 1858; removed to
Missouri Valley in 1875. He was admitted to the bar in Harrison county, and
established office in Oct., 1881.

F. L. Mandevill, druggist, was born near Rochester, N. Y., in 1835; moved to
Milwaukee, Wis., in 1842; thence to Missouri Valley in 1871 and engaged in his
present business; carries a complete stock in the drug line.

Hon. G. H. McGavren, M. D., is a native of Pa.; came to Harrison county in 1854
and first located at St. Johns; removed to Missouri Valley in 1808. He was
elected to the legislature in 1870, and is engaged in the practice of medicine
with his son, Charles, who is a graduate of the Rush Medical College, at
Chicago, Ill.

S. H. Morgan, of the firm of Morgan & Berry, grocers, was born in Ind.; moved to
Lucas county, Iowa, in 1859. He enlisted in 1861, in Co. C, 13th Ia. Vol.;
served until Sept., 1862; then returned to Lucas county and engaged in farming;
removed to Harrison county in 1864 and settled in St. Johns and engaged in the
drug business; removed to Missouri in 1868, and came back to Harrison couuty in
1877 and located at Missouri Valley and engaged in his present business.

Hans Newman was born in Sweden; came to America in 1870 and was in the employ of
the S. C. & P. Ry., at Sioux City, until 1879 when he was appointed passenger
conductor on the Nebraska division.

W. H. Ramseyer, superintendent of the car shops at Missouri Valley, was born in
N. Y.; moved to Neb. in 1867 and engaged in the furniture business, and in 1869
came to this city and was employed by the S. C. & P. R. R. company as pattern
maker. He was appointed superintendent in 1871.

A. H. Rockwell, contractor and builder, was born in Otsego county, N. Y.; moved
to Missouri Valley, Ia., in May 1873. He has built most of the brick blocks and
fine residences in the place.

L. Shaubel, foreman of the S. C. & P. R. R. company's paint shop, at Missouri
Valley, was born in Pa.; moved to Chicago, Ill., in 1854 with parents, and was
employed in the C. & N. W. R. R. paint shops, until, coming to this city in 1877
and accepting his present position.

S. B. Shields, dealer in general merchandise, was born in N. J. He came west in
1870, settled in Missouri Valley in 1872, and engaged in his present business.

S. B. Smith, proprietor of the City barber shop, is a native of Ark.; removed to
Polk county, Ia., in 1862 and to Harrison county in 1881, and established his
present business at Missouri Valley.

A. L. Tamisiea, harness maker and dealer, was born in Dubuque, Ia., in 1855;
removed with parents in 1856 to Harrison county, Ia. He came to Missouri Valley
in 1875, and engaged in the confectionery business. He engaged in his present
business in 1879.

J. D. Tamisiea, dealer in groceries and provisions, is a native of N. Y.; moved
to Dubuque, Ia., in 1853; thence to Harrison county in 1856; moved to Missouri
Valley in 1877, and engaged in his present business.

S. A. Teal, manager of the railroad machine shops, at Missouri Valley, Ia., was
born in Albany county, N. Y., in 1831. He was for a time engaged in the iron
business at Zanesville, O.; moved to Chicago in 1853 and was employed as
engineer for the C., B. & Q. R. R.; remained there four years; then came to Cass
county, la.: thence to Council Bluffs, in 1861, and was engaged as manager of
the iron works at that place; thence to this city in 1876 and engaged as manager
of machine shops.

C. Williams, of the firm of Williams & Blenkiron, proprietors of meat market,
was born in England in 1855; came to America in 1861 and settled with his
parents in Cherokee, Ia.; removed to Missouri Valley in 1876 and engaged in his
present business.

Horace N. Warren, dentist, was born in Council Bluffs, Ia., Aug. 24th, 1858; he
studied dentistry with Dr. H. N. Urnuy. He located permanently in Missouri
Valley in 1880; makes professional visits to Logan every two months, and three
times a year at Little Sioux and Magnolia. Although comparatively a newcomer, he
has by his careful and skillful practice, established a very lucrative business.

LOGAN.

B.C. Adams, of the firm of Adams Bros., stock raisers and dealers, (farms in
Jefferson township, three miles north of Logan), was born in Asthabula county,
O.; moved to Ill.; thence to Wis., and in 1854 came to Harrison county, Ia. He
was in the government service during the late war. as deputy provost marshal and
enrolling officer. Was married in Denison, Ia., in 1858, to Almira P. Carrico,
and has five children — three sons and two daughters.

John W. Barnhart, attorney at law, was born in Northumberland county, Pa., Nov.
30th, 1837; moved to Mich, in 1849. He graduated from Michigan University, at
Ann Arbor, in 1864; read law with H. T. Severns, and was admitted to the bar in
1865; came to Iowa and located at Boonsboro, Boone county, and opened an office.
He was mayor of that place three terms. In Feb., 1878, he removed to Logan; has
been mayor of this city one term. He was married in Mich, to Susan M. Hicks, of
Saratoga, N. Y., July 11th, 1865. They have four children — two sons and two
daughters.

John A. Berry, attorney at law, was born in Md. He was a student of the
Agricultural College in the senior class of'71; came west in 1874, and after
spending some time in Montana, located at Logan. He engaged in teaching school
and in various pursuits, until 1880, when he was admitted to the bar, and
engaged in the practice of the law. His office is known as the Harrison County
Collection Agency. He married Martha Burnett, of Mount Vernon, Ia., Nov. 7th,
1880, and has one child, a daughter.

Hon. L. R. Bolter represents Harrison county in the state legislature. He was
born in O. in 1835; moved to Logan in 1863, and engaged in the practice of the
law. He was elected to the legislature in 1865, '73, '75 and '81 on the
democratic ticket. He was temporary speaker of the house in 1874. In 1855 he
married Caroline J. Rhinehart, of Cass county, Mich. They have two sons and one
daughter.

T. J. Buchanan, furniture dealer and undertaker, was born in Boone county, Ill.,
March 10th, 1856; removed to Rockford; thence to Harrison county, Ia., and
engaged in farming three years in Union township. In Feb., 1881, he bought his
present business of Rudd & Soper, and carries an elegant stock of goods. He
married Alice A. Brownell, at Rockford, Ill., April 14th, 1876, and has one
child, a daughter.

S. A. Broadwell, land and loan office, was born in Cincinnati, O., March 21st,
1848. In 1862, he joined the 34th O. Zouaves; was afterwards courier and
messenger, and in 1864 returned to Cincinnati. He was employed by Tyler,
Davidson & Co. until 1866, when he was appointed sutler of Jefferson Barracks,
Mo., where he remained two years; then went to New Orleans, and ran a trading
boat for about a year, and then engaged in the wholesale boot and shoe business
in New Orleans. He then removed to Mobile, Ala., and engaged in the same
business, and through sickness was obliged to discontinue and travel for a time.
He next engaged in the land and loan busiuess in Champaign, Ill., remaining
there five years; removed thence to Logan, and opened his present office. He is
a very popular man, and does an extensive business, owning and controlling four
thousand acres and more of well improved lands, besides a large amount of stock.
He is one of the leading members of the Masonic order in Ia., being Grand Warden
of the Grand Commandery of the State of Iowa.

Hon. Phineas Cadwell, president of the Cadwell bank, was born in Madison county,
N. Y.. April 17th, 1824; moved to Racine, Wis., and engaged in farming; thence
to Harrison county, Ia., in Aug., 1854; engaged in farming, until 1875, when he
established his present business. He also deals in real estate, loans, and
insurance. He was elected to the legislature in 1871, on the republican ticket.
He has been president of the county agricultural society twenty years, and on
the state agricultural board as one of its directors eighteen years, and served
four years as trustee of the state agricultural college at Ames, Ia. He married
Harriet N. Fisk, Oct. 7th, 1845, and has three sons and two daughters.

E. P. Cadwell, of the firm of King & Cadwell, attorneys at law, land, loan and
insurance office, was born in Racine, Wis., Dec. 21st, 1S54; moved with his
parents to Independence, Ia. Entered the Ames Agricultural College in 1871,
graduated in 1875, was admitted to the bar in 1877, under Judge Bradley, of
Marshalltown, Ia., and soon after opened an office in Logan. In the fall of 1877
he formed a partnership with Mr. Barnhart, and in Nov., 1881, with Mr. King. He
owns a fine stock farm in Jefferson township, of 840 acres, well fitted with
buildings and imSrovements, where he keeps about 400 head of cattle, besides
horses hogs, etc., and has 440 acres of pasture land in Monona county. He
married Hannah P. Lyman, of Messapotamia, O., in the autumn of 1877. They have
one child, a daughter.

S. H. Cochran, attorney at law, was born in Carmine, Ills., in 1852; in 1874 he
graduated at the Iowa State Law School, and engaged in the practice of law at
Missouri Valley; removed to Logan in the fall of 1881; attends exclusively to
trial business. In 1880 he was engaged in the prosecution of the Western
Millers' Association cases, involving the constitutionality of the "Iowa Fish
Way Laws," in which a decree was obtained, holding them void, and he was also
successful in obtaining a decree annulling section 3,058 of the code as
unconstitutional. In 1880 he was appointed one of the committee of examiners of
the law class at Iowa City; was the youngest lawyer on the committee. In 1877 he
was married to Mary E. Shimmins, a native of Wis., although of English parentage.

Oscar Coffey, of the firm of Coffey & George, proprietors of bakery, restaurant
and grocery, was born in Pottawattamie county, Ia.; was engaged in farming until
locating here in Aug., 1881, when he established present thriving business.

A. W. Clyde, of the firm of Smith & Clyde, attorneys at law, was born in Otsego
county, N. Y.; moved to Mitchell county, Ia., in 1855, and was proprietor of the
Mitchell County News, for five years. He then moved to Logan, and engaged in the
practice of the law. He was married at Madison, Wis., in 1877, to Bessie
Johnson, and has one child, a son.

Logan Crawford, county surveyor, was born Jan. 13th, 1822, in Union, Conn.;
moved to Mayville, Wis., in the spring of 1847, and was employed on the Fond du
Lac & Watertown R. R. He surveyed in 1851, and in the summer of 1852 was again
employed by the Railroad Company as surveyor, under J. S. Sewell, engineer. Mr.
S. was transferred to the C. & N. W. R. R. on the Ill. division, and sent for
Mr. C. to assist. In 1854 he settled in Harrison county, and bought land near
Calhoun; has suffered large losses from prairie fire. He enlisted in 1861 in the
5th Ia. Infantry; enlisted as a private; was promoted in 1863 to lieutenant; was
engaged in the battle of Pittsburg Landing; was wounded at Corinth, Oct. 6th,
1863, and again at Atlanta, Ga.; was severely wounded by musket shot through the
chest, and reported dead; was taken prisoner in that condition, and put in the
hospital at Macon, Ga.; was transferred to Charlestown, S. C., and exchanged in
December in 1864. He was elected surveyor in 1879, on the republican ticket, and
re-elected in 1881; has been justice of the peace of Calhoun township two terms.
He married Helen M. Rising, at Maysville, Wis. They have four children living.

Dr. P. R. Crosswait, of the firm of P. R. Crosswait & Co., dealers in dry goods,
clothing, groceries and general merchandise, was born in Fulton county, Ill.,
July 12th, 1853; removed to Cass county, Ia., in 1856, and engaged in school
teaching until the beginning of the late war, when he enlisted in the 1st Ia.
Cav.; served three years west of the Missouri river; was in the battle of
Prairie Grove and the taking of Little Rock, Ark. In Sept., 1864, he was
mustered out of the service, and went to Rush Medical College, Chicago, and in
1865 settled in Harrison county, where he practiced twelve years; then went to
Miami College, at Cincinnati, and graduated in the spring of 1877; then returned
to this county and practiced two years in Logan, when he engaged in his present
business. He is a member of the I. O. O. F. lodge and encampment, also of the A.
O. U. W. lodge. He married Mary Murphy, of Magnolia, Ia.

William Elliott, farmer, La Grange township, owns 305 acres of land all fenced
and a well improved stock farm. He was born in Durham, Eng.; came to America in
1846 and located in Pa.; removed to Ia. in 1862 and located on his present farm
and has a fine herd of cattle. He married Anna Phillips, in Pa., in 1853. They
have seven children. He is a member of the I. O. O. F.

John V. Evans, attorney at law, was born in Genesee county, N. Y., Jan. 8th,
1847; removed to Clinton county, Ia., in 1863; studied law with Geo. B. Young of
De Witt, and was admitted to the bar in Clinton, Dec. 7th, 1870. He removed to
Magnolia, Harrison county; thence to Logan at the time it became the county
seat. He was county attorney two years and mayor of Logan the first two terms;
is a member of the I. O. O. F. lodge and encampment and a blue lodge mason. He
married Clara M. King, June 16th, 1875. They have one child, a son.

Wm. Giddings, P. M. and druggist, also dealer in stationery, toys, etc., was
born in McHenry county, Ill., Aug. 26th, 1845; removed to Council Bluffs in 1868
and was with DeHaven & Giddings, druggists. In 1869, came to Magnolia, Harrison
county, and in 1872 came to Logan and engaged in his present business. In June,
1875, was appointed postmaster of Logan. He married Helen N. Nelson in Beloit,
Wis. They have one child, a son.

W. B. Goodenough, shoemaker, was born in Lewis county, N. Y., May 17th, 1862;
moved with parents in Nov., 1867, to Logan, Ia., and is engaged in the above
business, with his father M. H. Goodenough, who was born in Lewis County, N. Y.,
and was engaged in shoe making, until he came to Logan, where he resumed same
business. He served from 1863 to the close of the war, in 20th N. Y. Cav. He
married Aug. 17th, 1856, to Emeline Dodge. They have three sons and two daughters.

A. K. Grow, county recorder, was born in Courtlandt county, N. Y., in 1862;
removed to Washington county, Neb., in 1857; thence to Harrison county, Ia., in
Nov., 1858, and settled in Boyer township and engaged in milling for three
years; then built a mill which he ran until 1875, and sold to John & Wilson
Williams. Was elected to his present office in 1876 on republican ticket. He
married Eliza J. Baskin, a native of Pa. They have one son and six daughters.

G. W. Guilford, proprietor of meat market, was born in Orleans county, Vt.,
1843; moved to Tama county, Ia., in 1860. He enlisted in 1861 in the 10th Ia.
Vol. Inft., and served four years and two months; was in twenty-seven
engagements; was wounded at the battle of Champion Hill, Miss.; was at the seige
of Corinth and New Madrid, at the battle of Missouri Ridge and wounded twice.
Was with Sherman in the march to the sea; discharged in 1865. Came to Harrison
county in 1867; resided in Dunlap thirteen years; while there, was a member of
the city council four years. Has lived in Logan two years; is now a member of
the city council of that place. He married Mrs. Campbell, of Harlan, Ia. They
have two sons and three daughters. He is a member of the G. A. R. post at this
place.

A. L. Harvey, of the firm of Harvey & Ford, proprietors of the Harrison County
Bank, was born in Madison county, N. Y., in July, 1826; removed to Rockland
county in 1853; thence to Jasper county, Ia., in 1856, and the following year
located at Magnolia, Harrison county. In 1860 he was elected county treasurer
and recorder, the two offices being consolidated; was re-elected in 1862. He
opened a land and loan office in 1864, and when Logan became the county seat
removed there; in 1876 established the bank with J. C. Milliman, who sold his
share in 1878 to Mr. Ford. Mr. H. was the first land agent and first notary
public in the county, has sold about 25,000 acres of land during the last year
(1881), owns a fine farm of 436 acres, four and one-half miles from Woodbine,
besides about 200 acres in other parts of the county. Has been internal revenue
assessor three years. Is a member of the A. F. and A. M. lodge, also of the I.
O. O. F.

D. M. Hardy, deputy treasurer, was born in Glenwood, Ia., in 1851; removed with
his parents to Harrison county, is son of Judge Hardy, one of the oldest
settlers of this county and the first county judge. He is an extensive farmer,
and one of the proprietors of Willow mill, the oldest mill in the county. Mr.
Hardy is a member of the A. O. U. W. lodge, also of the I. O. O. F. He married
Miss Severins, of Wis., in 1872. They have two sons and two daughters.

C. L. Hyde, clerk of the courts, was born in Otsego county, N. Y., in 1843; came
to la. in 1886, and first located at Little Sioux, Harrison county; has been a
resident of the county ever since. He was elected to his present office in 1876
on the republican ticket. He enlisted in 1862 in the 20th Wis. Inft.; was
discharged after seven months, and then joined the 41st Wis. Inft. He married
Mary Russell, and has three sons.

G. T. Kelley, attorney at law, was born in Johnson county, Ill., in 1846; moved
to Mills county, Ia., in 1854, and to Harrison county in 1867. He graduated and
was admitted to the bar at the Iowa State University, June 10th, 1876, and soon
after opened a law office at Logan. He married Maria Allen, in Harrison county,
in 1870, and has two children, a son and daughter.

Fred Kimpel, jeweler and barber, was born Mar. 16th, 1847, in Bavaria, Ger.;
came to America in Sept., 1864; learned the barber trade in N. Y. In 1866 he
removed to Scranton, Pa., and engaged in the barber business; removed to Dunlap,
Ia., in 1869; thence in 1876, to Logan, and engaged in his present business;
owns considerable real estate in this city. He is a member of the A. O. U. W.,
I. O. O. F., and A. F. & A. M. lodges. He married Mary Fisher, in Scranton, Pa.
They have one son and three daughters.

S. I. King, of the firm of King & Cadwell, attorneys at law, was born Sept. 8th,
1848, in Saratoga county, N. Y.; came to Harrison county with his parents in
1852 and located at Six Mile Grove. He is the son of Judge S. King,who was one
of the first settlers of this county and one of the commissioners who located
the county seat at Magnolia, in 1854. Mr. King removed to Boyer Valley, and was
engaged in teaching most of the time, from the age of fifteen until 1867, when
he attended the State University, of Iowa City. He left in graduating year on
account of serious illness. Again engaged in teaching school; in 1870 taught the
high school of Magnolia. Then traveled for the wholesale dry goods house of
Smith & Crittenden, Council Bluffs. He attended the Law School at Des Moines in
1875, graduated and was admitted to the bar in 1876, and opened an office in
Logan; at the end of two months he removed to Magnolia and opened an office
there; came back to Logan in 1879 and formed a partnership with E. P. Cadwell in
Nov., 1881. He is a member of the A. F. & A. M., and A. O. D. W. lodges. He is
also chairman of the republican central committee. He was married in 1874 to
Abbie M. Mark, of Fredonia, N. Y.

Hon. Thomas M. C. Logan, senator elect of 34th district, was born in Rush
county, Ind., Feb. 13th, 1830; moved to Richland county, Ill., in April 1857;
thence to Cedar Rapids, Linn county; and from there to Harrison county. He has
been engaged most of his life in farming and dealing in stock. He resides on his
fine farm adjoining Logan. He was married Feb. 17th, 1851, to Charlotte
Snodgrass, in La Porte, Ind., who died in Jan. 1867, leaving a son and daughter.
He afterwards married at Cedar Rapids, Harriet Herbert. They have four sons and
three daughters.

A. Longman, Jr., proprietor of the Logan Flouring Mills, was born in Derby,
Eng., in 1848; came to America with his parents in 1851 and located in Holt
county. Mo.; removed to Harris Grove, Harrison county, Ia., in 1852. The subject
of this sketch graduated from Oskaloosa College in 1874. The mill was built in
the winter of 1855-6 by Henry Reel, who sold it to Mr. McCoid, of whom Mr. L.
purchased it in Sept., 1880, and has established an extensive business. He was
married in Wis., to Miss Whitcomb, in 1877, who died leaving one child, a daughter.

James A. Lusk, proprietor of the Lusk House and livery and feed stable,
established business in 1869. He was born in Morris county, N. Y., in 1824;
removed to Mills county, Ia., in 1855; thence to Harrison county in 1863; was
engaged in farming until he engaged in the hotel business. He married Minerva
Roberts (deceased) in 1846, and afterwards Lydia B. Kelsey. They have four sons
and one daughter.


Horace C. McCleary, M. D., was born in Warren county, Ia., in July 1859;
received his education at the Simpson Centenary College, at Indianola, Ia.,
studied medicine in the medical department of the State University, at Iowa
City, and graduated in 1881 from Rush Medical College, Chicago. He located in
Logan, July 20th, 1881, succeeding Dr. Giddings. Although a new-comer he is
already in the possession of a lucrative and increasing practice. He is a member
of the I. O. O. F. Lodge.

Allen Middleton, deputy sheriff, was born in Washington county, Ia., in 1855;
came to Harrison county in 1867.

Wiley Middleton, sheriff, was born in O.; removed to Washington county, Ia.;
thence to Harrison county in 1867. He was elected to his present office in 1879.
He married Julia A. Lockling, and has three sons and one daughter.

Wm. Palmer, farmer, was born in London, Ontario, Canada, in Oct., 1833; came to
Whiteside county, Ill., with his parents in 1851, where he remained two years;
then removed to Walworth county, Wis., where he remained seven years; then came
to Harrison county. He has been married three times; his present wife was Sarah
Streeter; were married in 1880. He has three sons and three daughters.

J. W. Reed, dealer in general merchandise, was born in Va. in 1847; moved to
Harrison county, Ia., in 1868, and engaged in present business with P. J.
Rudisell in 1875; became sole proprietor in 1877. He has been a member of the
town council several years. During the war of the rebellion he served in the
43rd West Va. Bat., Mosby's command. He was married in 1874 to Miss Low, of
Atchinson county, Mo., who died in 1876, leaving one child, a daughter. He was
again married in 1878 to Miss Williams, of Boone county, Ia. They have two
children, daughters.

H. H. Roadifer, of the firm of Evans & Roadifer, attorneys at law, was admitted
to the bar in La Salle county, Ill., June 4th, 1875, before the supreme court.
He came to Logan in 1878, and engaged in the practice of law with Mr. Evans; has
been Mayor of this city one term.

J. W. Rudd, farmer in Union tp., was born in 1838, in Va.; moved to Harrison
county in 1870 with his father, Wm. T. Rudd, and located at Logan, where they
engaged in furniture and undertaking business, which they continued eleven
years; then sold to T. J. Buchanan. He was city councilman three years, and is a
member of the A. 0. U. W., I. 0. O. F., and A. F. & A.M. lodges. He married
Sarah C. Sprinkel, of Amsterdam, Va., and has two sons and two daughters.

Geo. B. Seekel, dealer in lumber, grain and agricultural implements, was born in
Taunton, Mass., in Sept., 1823; the most of his younger days were spent in
Providence, R. I. In 1856 he moved to Madison, Wis., and engaged in the grain
business; went south in 1864 and remained two years, after which he engaged in
the lumber trade in Chicago; after two years he went to St. Paul, Minn., having
the management and general agency of the Singer sewing machine. In 1871 removed
to Logan and engaged in his present business; has been a member of the city
council, and president of the school board several years. He is a member of the
I. O. O. F. and A. F. & A. M. lodges. He was married in Dec., 1847, to Martha M.
Williams, of N. Y., and has one daughter.

Geo. Soper, dealer in hardware, was born in Rome, N. Y., July 14th, 1853; moved
with parents to Clinton, Ia., in 1857, and came to Logan in July, 1878, and
engaged in present business. He is a member of the I. O. O. F. lodge. He was
married Aug. 26th, 1878, to Lena Dodson, of Stanwood, Ia. They have one child, a
son.
Hon. Joseph H. Smith, of the firm of Smith & Clyde, attorneys at law, was born
in Beaver county, Pa.; moved to Harrison county, Ia. in 1857, and engaged in the
practice of law; formed a partnership with A. W. Clyde in 1879. He enlisted in
1862 in Co. C. 29th la. Inft.; was second lieutenant. He was elected a member of
the legislature one term. He married Julia A. Warrick, a native of Pa., and has
five sons and one daughter.

Daniel Stewart, wagon maker, was born in Little Falls, Herkimer county, N. Y.,
Oct. 31st, 1833; moved to Logan in 1872 and engaged in his present business. He
served during the rebellion in the 121st N. Y. Vol.; was in a number of
important battles; was wounded Oct. 19th, 1864, and in hospital at Baltimore;
was discharged May. 16th, 1865. He is a member of the A. O. U. W. and G. A. R.
orders. He married Margaret M. Clarke, of Herkimer county, N. Y., in July, 1861,
and has one child a son.

John W. Stocker, grocer and dealer in corn and stock, was born in Caledonia
county, Vt., June 2nd, 1835; moved with parents to Lowell, Mass., in 1813;
thence to McHenry county, Ill., in 1854 and engaged in farming; thence to Henry
county, Ia., and engaged in setting up woolen mills; thence to Buchanan county
in 1857 and engaged in farming one year; then moved to Little Sioux. He enlisted
in Co. C, 29th Ia. Inft.; was in a number of important battles; was regimental
quartermaster and commanded his company the last year and a half of his service;
was some time in Rio Grande, Tex., and returned home Sept. 2nd, 1865; moved to
Woodbine and bought an interest in the woolen mill there; after six months sold
out and removed to Magnolia, then the county seat, and was elected clerk of the
courts in 1866 and re-elected in 1868. In 1876 he located in Logan and engaged
in the stock and grain buying business and added the grocery business in 1879.
He is a member of the Masonic, I. O. O. F, and I. O. G. T. orders. He married
Susan B. Bonney, in 1862. They have three daughters.

J. T. Stern, farmer, was born in Chester county, Pa., in 1814; moved to ia. in
1857 and settled on his present farm, in La Grange township, Harrison county, of
200 acres of well improved land, forty acres of it good timber. He was reporter
for the Government Signal Service, Washington, D. C., for twenty years. He
married Millicent B. Fletcher, of Lincolnshire, Eng., and has two sons and one
daughter. His son Almor is county auditor.

Almor Stern, county auditor, was born in Chester county, Pa., in 1854; came to
Harrison with his parents in 1857; was employed in farming, until he engaged as
clerk in auditor's office; was elected to his present office in 1878. He married
Laura Mann, of Harrison county in 1880. They have one child, a son.

Thomas Turnbull, dealer in grain and farm machinery, was born in Greene county,
O., June 20th, 1841, was engaged in farming and stock raising there until 1874,
when he came to Des Moines, Ia., and engaged in pork packing and curing with
Fayette Meek; removed to Harrison county in Nov., 1876, and engaged in his
present business. He owns a well improved farm in Jefferson twp., of 120 acres.
He was married June 25th, 1865, to Susan B. Thompson, in Greene county, O. They
have four sons and three daughters.

E. G. Tyler, land, loan and abstract office, was born in Chittenden county, Vt.,
Feb. 15th, 1856; in 1866 moved to Hastings, Minn.; thence to Dunlap, Ia., in
1867. He graduated in 1878 from the Iowa Agricultural College, at Ames, Ia. In
1879 he opened the office in Logan. He is a member of the I. O. O. F.

J. L. Witt, M. D., was born March 4th, 1855, in Galesburg, Knox county, Ill. He
graduated from the medical department of the State University, at Iowa City in
1878. and located in Logan the same year and engaged in the practice of his
profession. He was married in Logan Nov. 30th, 1881, to Millie Vanderhoof.

John Williams was born in Fayette county, O., in 1827; moved with his parents to
Noble county, Ind.; thence to Mason county, Ill.; thence to Jefferson twp.,
Harrison county, Ia., where he now resides. He owns a well improved farm of 650
acres. He makes a specialty of raising fine stock. He has some very fine horses
and one thorough-bred stallion which was imported from France at a cost of
$2,500. In fact we may say that Mr. Williams has one of the finest stock farms
in Western Iowa. He was married in 1849 to Sarah Anderson, of Noble county, Ind.
They have three sons and five daughters.

MONDAMIN.

Thomas H. Allison, M. D., was born in Pa.; began the practice of medicine in
1849; removed to Missouri in 1857; thence to Mills county, Iowa; thence to
Florence, Neb., and in 1864 located at Council Bluffs, Ia. In 1881 he came to
Mondamin, and opened an office.

Charles Burrows, agent for the S. C. & P. R. R. at Mondamin, is a native of
Cincinnati, O. At the age of nineteen vears, he removed to Danville, Ill. In
1862 he enlisted in Co. C, 124th Ill. Vol.; served until Sept., 1865, then
returned to Ill. and engaged in telegraphy at Springfield; has been in the
employ of several of the principal railroad companies in the states of Ill.,
Mo., Neb. and Ia. He was appointed agent at Mondamin in Dec., 1880; is also
express agent and attorney at law.

John T. Coffman, farmer, was born in Greene county, Tenn., in 1828; removed with
parents to Johnson county, Mo.; thence to that part of Lee county. Ia., then
known as the Spanish land grant; thence located in the edge of Putnam county.
Mo., which in 1838 became Appanoose county, Ia. He removed to Lewis, Cass
county, in 1863, and in the spring of the year following went to Virginia City,
Montana; returned in the autumn, and in the spring of 1865 moved to his present
farm in Raglan township, Harrison county. He owns one thousand acres of land,
and pays especial attention to stock raising. He is a member of the A. F. & A.
M. lodge. In 1852 he was married to Matilda J. Croft, who died in 1854, leaving
two children. In 1856 he married Susan Croft, and has seven children.

Frederick M. Dupray, proprietor of hotel and blacksmith shop, was born in Ohio
in 1831; moved to Mich, in 1843, and the next year to Jackson county, Ia. In
1852 he removed to Minn., and resided at St. Peter until 1857, when he returned
to Ia. He located at Mondamin in 1876, and engaged in his present business. He
was elected justice of the peace in 1879.

Charles Gilmore, farmer, is a native of O.; came to Harrison county, Ia., in
1850; his family followed the next year. He owns a farm of 1,200 acres, near
Mondamin. He is one of the oldest settlers of this county.

R. Johnston, M. D., came from O. to Harrison county, Ia., in 1855; returned to
O. in 1861, and enlisted in Co. G, 53rd O. Vol. as assistant surgeon; was
discharged in 1862, for physical disability; returned to O., where he remained
until 1869, when he returned to Harrison county, Ia., and engaged in the
practice of medicine at Mondamin.

L. Maunhart, harness maker, was born in Algiers, Germany, in 1853; came to
America in 1873, and located at Joliet, Ill. He came to Mondamin, Ia., in 1878.
and engaged in his present business; deals in all kinds of harness, saddles, and
horse furnishings found in first-class shops.

L. H. Noyes, grain dealer, is a native of O., moved to Harrison county, Ia., in
1867, and engaged in farming. In 1875 he engaged in his present business.

James Noyes, grocer, a native of O.; settled in Harrison county, Ia., in 1866,
and engaged in his present business at Mondamin in Dec., 1881, on the corner of
Maple and Main streets.

Z. T. Noyes, dealer in general merchandise, was born in O. in 1849; moved to
Harrison county in 1856, with his parents, and settled near the present site of
Mondamin; moved into the town in 1869, and was for four years employed in his
father's store, previous to engaging in his present business.

Thomas Regan, dealer in general merchandise, was born in Cork county, Ireland;
came to America in 1854, and settled in Conn.; removed to Chicago, III., in
1865. In 1868 he removed to Jones county, Ia.; thence to Mondamin, Harrison
county, in 1870, and engaged in wagon making, which he followed until 1879, and
then engaged in his present business. His wife is the pioneer milliner of
Mondamin, having established business in 1870. Their daughter Mary, was the
first child born in the place.

L. Snyder, hardware dealer, was born in Strausberg, Germany, in 1838; came to
America in 1871, and located at Joliet, Ill.; moved to Mondamin, Ia., in 1880,
and engaged in his present business.

P. C. Spooner, hardware dealer, was born in Vt.; moved to N. Y. at an early age
and engaged in milling. In 1871 he came to Mondamin, Ia., and engaged in the
grain and hardware business. A. Spooner, manager of the above house, came to
Mondamin in 1871, from Omaha, Neb., and is township clerk and city recorder.

James D. Stuart, druggist, was born in Council Bluffs, Ia., in 1860. He
graduated from the State Pharmacy in 1880, and in April of the same year engaged
in his present business at Mondamin.

Byron Strode, jeweler, was born in O. in 1850; moved to Jones county, Ia., in
1875, and the following year came to Mondamin, Harrison county, and engaged in
his present business.

MODALE.

E. BrandrifF, farmer, is a native of N. Y.; moved to Ia. in 1859 and located
near Council Bluffs, and was engaged in freighting to Denver, Col., until 1864,
when he moved to Harrison county, and engaged in farming near Modale.

W. W. Broadhead, proprietor of billiard hall, is a native of O.; moved to
Modale, Ia., in 1877 and engaged in farming. In 1881 he engaged in his present
business.

Levi Crouch, dealer in groceries, is a native of Mo.; moved to Mills county,
Ia., in 1851; thence to Harrison county in 1867. He engaged in his present
business in 1878.

R. Christian, M. D., was born in N. Y.; moved to Jefferson, Greene county, Ia.,
in 1867; graduated from the Hahnaman Medical College, of Chicago, Ill., in 1874,
located at Modale in 1879 and engaged in the practice of medicine.

C. J. Cutler, merchant and postmaster, is a native of Pa.; moved to Neb., in
1856. He enlisted in 1862, in Co. H, 2d Neb. Cav., and was with Gen. Sully
fourteen months, on the plains: returned to Neb. and engaged in freighting. In
1866 he removed to Council Bluffs, Ia., and engaged in the grocery business. The
same year he came to Modale, and in 1874 established his present business; was
appointed postmaster the following year.

J. W. Huff, M. D. and druggist, was born in Harrison county, in 1857; graduated
from the Rush Medical College, of Chicago, Ill., in 1881. He located at Modale,
and engaged in his present business in April, 1880.

F. H. Ludwig, farmer, is a native of Pa.; moved to O. in 1855; thence to Modale,
Ia., in 1869. He built the first grain house at that place.

Job Ross, stock and grain dealer, was bom in Ill., in 1831; moved to Harrison
county, Ia., in 1854, and engaged in farming. In 1876 he moved to Modale and
established the first hardware store in the place. In 1880 he engaged in his
present business.

W. A. Sharpnack, dealer in general merchandise, is a native of W. Va., and a son
of Henry Sharpnack, who was one of the first settlers of Harrison county. He
came to this county in 1857 and engaged in farming, until 1878, when he engaged
in his present business. He also deals in grain.

W. M. Sharpnack, dealer in hardware, is a native of Va.; came with his father,
John Sharpnack, to Washington county, Ia., in 1850, and four years later came to
Harrison county, and engaged in farming until 1880, when he moved to Modale and
engaged in his present business.

LITTLE SIOUX.

J. W. Alton, dealer in general groceries, is a native of Ill.; came to Iowa in
1875 and engaged in farming near Little Sioux, and in 1877 he engaged in his
present business. He enlisted in the war of the rebellion in 1862 in Co. A,
118th Ill. Vol., and was discharged at the close of the war.

H. H. Bonney, proprietor of hotel and livery stable at Little Sioux, is a native
of Pa.; removed to this place in 1865, and engaged in the grocery business. He
erected the hotel in 1878, which is a first class house in all its appointments.

Colonel A. Cochran, was born in Va.; located at Little Sioux in 1854; went to
Denver and Central City, Col., in 1861, and engaged in mining and mercantile
business, and after four years engaged in the land business at Council Bluffs,
Ia. He owns large landed property near Little Sioux, Harrison county.

C. E. Cobb, dealer in hardware and lumber, is a native of N. Y.; moved to Iowa
in 1856 and engaged in farming, near Little Sioux, Harrison county. In 1874 he
engaged in his present business.

B. F. Croasdale, dealer in general merchandise, was born in Pa. in 1839; moved
to Council Bluffs, Iowa, in 1864, and was employed as salesman in a mercantile
house until 1866, when he came to Little Sioux and engaged in his present business.

C. David, dealer in furniture, was born near Montreal, Canada, in 1856; came to
Little Sioux, Iowa, in 1879 with but ten cents, to start with; is now doing a
good business, and is the owner of considerable fine real estate.

Clark Ellis, druggist, was born in Ohio, in 1843, and with his widowed mother,
moved to Harrison county, Iowa, in 1853. He enlisted in 1862, in Co. C, 29th Ia.
Inft.; returned to this county at the close of the war, and engaged for a time
in farming, after which he established his present business. He graduated from
the Iowa State Pharmacy in 1880. A. M. Ellis, an older brother, now engaged in
the stock business at this place, is also an old settler of this county. He
enlisted in Co. H, 15th Ia.

D. M. Gamet, dealer in general merchandise, was born in Otsego county. N. Y., in
1811; moved to Ill. in 1837; thence in 1846 to Council Bluffs; remained there
two years, and then removed to Glenwood, Mills county, of which place he was one
of the proprietors. In 1852 he settled at Magnolia, Harrison county, and was the
first recorder and treasurer of the county. Five years later he removed to
Little Sioux and engaged in his present business.

Geo. T. Hope, of the firm of Hope Bros., photographers and dealers in drugs and
furniture, is a native of Green county, N. Y.; moved to Ill. in 1851, and with
his brother Wm. H., engaged in farming. In 1870 they moved to Little Sioux, Ia.,
and engaged in the mercantile business. They established their present business
in 1879.

M. Johnson, wine and liquor dealer, is a native of Pottawattamie county, Ia.;
moved to Harrison county in 1854 and engaged in farming. In 1874 he went to
Idaho and Montana, where he spent four years; returned and engaged in his
present business at Little Sioux.

Thomas J. Lanyon, postmaster at Little Sioux, was born in Pa. in 1848; moved
with his parents to Monona county, Ia., in 1858; thence to this place in 1865.
In 1870 he was appointed postmaster, and about the same time engaged in the
fancy grocery business.

Mrs. S. J. Long, milliner, was born in Ohio, moved to Ill., and in 1864 to Salt
Lake City, where she remained two years, and then settled in Little Sioux. Her
husband, P. R. Long, is a native of N. Y., and is engaged in bridge and house
building at this place.

M. Murray, banker, stock raiser and dealer in general merchandise, was born in
Scotland in 1840; came to America at the age of seventeen years, located at
Little Sioux, and was in the employ of the mail service at fifteen dollars per
month until 1862, when he removed to Denver, Col., and engaged in the stock and
freight business. Six years later he returned to this place and engaged in his
present business. He owns a fine stock farm of several hundred acres near town,
on which still stands the little old log house that he arrived at in 1857, a
penniless Scotch lad. It was the first building used for a store in Harrison
county.

C. W. Oden, manager of the banking and mercantile business of M. Murray, was
born in Ross county, O., in 1831; moved to Ia. in 1858, and platted the town of
Harlan, Shelby county; remained there until 1862, when he enlisted in Co. C,
29th la. Vol. He was promoted quarter-master, which office he held until the
close of the war. In 1866 he located at Little Sioux and engaged in farming; was
secretary of the Harrison Co. Agricultural society for fourteen years; accepted
his present position in 1876.

J. L. Perkins, farmer, was born in O., in 1834; moved to Jackson county, Ia., in
1844; thence to Harrison county in 1850, and three years later located at Little
Sioux. He devotes his special attention to the raising of fine varieties of
potatoes. He raised over three hundred kinds in 1876. Bliss & Sons, of N. Y.,
offered a premium of one hundred dollars to the one raising the most potatoes
from one pound of seed. Mr. P. raised 1,666 3/4 lbs. from one lb., winning the
first and also the second premiums. As the offer was open to the world,
therefore Mr. Perkins is universally pronounced the Potato King. One hundred of
his potatoes averaged two pounds apiece.

Jeff. Smith, harness maker, was born in Ill.; moved to Ia. in 1868, and located
at Sioux City. In 1874 he removed to Little Sioux and engaged in his present
business. He deals in all kinds of single and double harness, saddles, robes,
whips, etc

J. A. Stockwell, blacksmith, is a native of Ind.; moved to Ia. in 1855, and
settled in Harrison countv; was one of the original proprietors of California
Junction. He moved to Little Sioux in 1877, and engaged in his present business.

Reuben Wallace, M. D., was born in Mass. in 1812. He began the practice of
medicine in 1845, at North Adams, Mass. In 1849 removed to St. Lawrence county,
N. Y., where he remained until 1857, when he came west. At the close of the war
he settled in Harrison county, and engaged in the practice of his profession.

J. S. Whiting, proprietor of billiard parlor, is a native of Mass.; moved to
Wis. in 1854; thence in 1859 to Colorado, where he engaged in mining; from there
he went back to Oregon and Idaho, and then back to Mass., where he remained one
year, and in 1866 came to Ia. In 1875 he removed to Salt Lake City, Utah., and
engaged in the bottling business. A year later he settled at Little Sioux, and
engaged in his present business.

WOODBINE.

L. D. Butler, lumber dealer and farmer, was born in Ky. in 1826; removed to Clay
county, Mo., in 1837 with parents. In 1846 was sent to England as a Mormon
missionary, was gone two years, and in 1849 located at Council Bluffs; removed
to Harrison county in 1853 and engaged in farming. He built the first grist mill
in the county, which he sold to Dally & Clark. He engaged in the mercantile
business in 1856, near the mill; moved the business to Woodbine in 1867 and was
burned out the same year. He engaged in the lumber business in the spring of
1881. He owns a farm in Lincoln township of 880 acres, 100 acres in Douglas
township and 200 acres in Boyer township. He has been Postmaster in Harrison
county twenty years. He severed connection with the Mormon church twenty-five
years ago. He was married in 1849 at Birmingham, Eng., to Anna Binnall, and has
ten children.

Orrin DeWitt Cole, druggist, was born near Woodbine in 1859. His parents came to
this county in 1856, and engaged in farming. The business was established in
1870, under firm name of J. S. Cole & Son, his father since retiring from the
business.

N. L. Cole, furniture dealer and undertaker, was born in Indianapolis, Ind., in
1841; came to Harrison county with parents. He enlisted in the 6th Ia. Cav.; was
engaged against the Indians in Neb. and Dak.; was injured while building a fort
at Sioux Falls, Dak.. Aug. 13th, 1865, and discharged in Oct. of the same year.
He was married in Sept. 1867, to Libbie Irne. He was engaged in farming until
May, 1881; bought furniture stock and building of W. Cantield. John S. Cole,
father of the subject of this sketch was one of the first settlers of this
county. He was a practicing physician. He was also a member of the county board
five terms. Died Aug. 2nd, 1881.

L.H. Crane, deputy postmaster and grocer, was born in Rochester, Minn., in
April, 1860; removed with parents to Jeddo, Harrison county, Ia., in 1862; the
next year they moved to a farm two miles from Woodbine. He is a graduate of
Miller's Mercantile College, of Keokuk, Ia. In 1879 he moved to Woodbine and
engaged in business with his father, who was appointed postmaster in March, 1881.

W. D. Cromie, dealer in general merchandise, clothing and grain; was born June
29th, 1851, in Cecil county, Md.; moved with parents to Harrison county, Ia., in
1867. He graduated from Bailey's Commercial College, at Keokuk, Ia., in Feb.,
1874. In 1875 located at Woodbine; held the office of postmaster for six years.
He was married in 1877 to Florence Daly, and has one child, a son.

Joseph W. Dally, of the firm of Dally & Noyes, proprietors of the Woodbine
flouring mills, was born in O. in 1829. He went to Cal. in 1852, and in 1855
settled in Hamilton county, Ia. He removed to Harrison county in 1859, and
engaged in mercantile business at Magnolia. He built the Woodbine woolen mills
near this place, which he ran six years, and in 1871 built the flouring mills.
He is a member of the I. O. O. F., and A. F. & A. M. orders. In 1855 he was
married to Miss Goodrich, of Indianapolis, Ind., who died in 1865. He afterwards
married Nancy La Ferre, in Harrison county, and has four sons and six daughters.

J. H. Farnsworth, farmer, was born in O. in 1834; moved to Council Bluffs, Ia.,
in 1854; thence to Harrison county the same year and engaged in farming, near
Woodbine. In 1864 he established the Woodbine nursery, which he recently sold to
Pugsley Bros. He was married in 1855 to Olive A. Howorth. They have seven children.

George Garner, proprietor of Woodbine barbershop and temperance billiard hall,
was born near Council Bluffs, Ia., in April, 1855. In 1861 removed with parents
to Raglan Tp., Harrison county, and in Dec., 1881, he bought out the fixtures of
O. Elkins, and keeps a strictly temperance hall, with lunch bar in connection.

H. C. Harshbarger, dealer in groceries, was born in Spencer county, Ind., in
1840; removed with parents to Mahaska county, Ia., in 1848, and to Harrison
county in 1856, locating near present town of Woodbine. In 1861 he enlisted in
Co. I, Neb. Inft.; was in several prominent battles, and in 1865 was discharged
and returned to Harrison county. In 1865, he was elected county auditor, and
county recorder in 1866, and in 1870 engaged in the mercantile business, which
he continued for three years; then engaged in farming for six years, and in 1881
sold his farm and engaged in his present business. He still owns 240 acres of
good farming land in the county. He was postmaster of this city three and
one-half years, is a member of A. F. & A. M. order. He was married to Emily
Mundy, in 1865, who died in 1870, and in 1872 he was married to Nettie Edgerton.

Sylvester B. Kibler, senior member of the firm of Kibler Bros. & Winter, dealers
in general merchandise, was born in Portage county. O., in 1846; moved to
Harrison county, Ia., with parents in 1853. He engaged in present business with
his brother G. H. and in Aug., 1880, they took into the firm Mr. Winter. They
have one of the finest buildings in the county, built in 1878, and carry a very
large and complete stock of goods; are also agents for the Mason & Hamlin organs
and the American sewing machine. S. B. Kibler was married in 1873, to Caroline
Ellison.

A. P. Lathrop, harnessmaker, was born in Hastings, Ontario, Canada, in 1849;
removed to Ill. in 1856 and learned his trade at Morrison. He was in business in
Syracuse, Otto county, Neb., two years; moved to Dunlap, Ia. in 1874, and was
engaged in business with Mr. Howard of that place, four years, and removed to
Woodbine in 1878. He was marshal of Dunlap two years; is member of encampment,
I. O. O. F., and A. F. & A. M. orders. He was married in Shelby county, to Flora
McGarvey, and has one child.

Charles F. Luce, land, loan, and collecting agent, was born in Wis. in 1860. He
graduated from the Morgan Park Military Academy, in 1877; came to Harrison
county, Ia., in same year locating at Woodbine engaging in lumber and grain
business which he continued two years, and then engaged in stock business, which
he still carries on in connection with the agency, which he established in 1881.
Office in the new Boyer Bank building. He is a member of the I. O. O. F., order.
In 1879 and 1880 he was deputy sheriff and jailor of Woodbine.

Capt. Wm. M. Magden, attorney at law, was born in Genesee county, N. Y., in
1818; he removed to Wayne county, Mich., and engaged in the manufacture of
agricultural implements; afterwards studied law in the office of Morgan &
Joslin, at Elgin, Ill., and with Gen. Baker, at Clinton, Ia., two years, and
admitted to the bar in Clinton county, in Dec., 1859, Judge Dillon presiding. He
practiced in that county until 1862 and enlisted in the 20th Ia. Inft., served
three years, and was promoted to captain. He was in a number of prominent
battles and was wounded in the right arm by a ball, in the right side by a
bursting shell, and lost the ends of two fingers of the left hand. He was
discharged in 1864, and returned to Clinton county; removed to Dunlap, Harrison
county, in 1870, and soon after opened an office at Woodbine. He is a member of
the A. F. & A. M. order. In 1855, he was married to Elizabeth Gates, at Elgin,
Ill., and has ten children.

Geo. A. Mathews, of the firm of Mathews & Kling, dealers in lumber, grain and
machinery, was born in Troy, Walworth county, Wis., in 1843. He was for twelve
years engaged in the manufacture of brooms, at Stoughton, Wis. In 1877 he came
to Woodbine, Ia., and engaged in present business, with L. M. Kellogg and Mr.
Kling. The former sold his interest in the fall of 1881. Mr. M. was married in
Troy, Wis., in 1867, to Mary E. Kling. They have two sons and one daughter.

John Mann, Jr., farmer, owns 240 acres in Allen township. He was born in
Glasgow, Scotland, in 1853; came with parents to Woodbine, Ia., in 1871. His
farm is well improved, and he makes stock raising his main object, and we may
well say, has one of the finest stock farms in the county. He is a member of the
I. O. O. F. lodge. He was married in April, 1881, to Candace L. Imley, of
Magnolia, Ia.

E. P. Mendenhall, land, loan, tax-paying and insurance agent, was born in
Guilford connty, N. C., Oct. 28th, 1826; moved with parents to Miami county,
Ind., and in May, 1856, came to Harrison county, Ia., and engaged in farming on
two hundred acres, one mile from the present town of Woodbine. He opened present
land office in 1879. He was married in Miami county, Ind., to Mrs. Elizabeth
Hunt, daughter of Captain Rector. They have two children.

Geo. Musgrave, publisher of the Woodbine Twiner, the county official paper, was
born in Kendall, Westmoreland county, Eng., in 1837; came to America with
parents in 1848; and settled in Harrison county, Ia., in 1851. He first began
the printing business in St. Louis, afterwards at Council Bluffs, and then
engaged in publishing the Western Star, at Magnolia, it being Harrison county's
first paper; was republican in politics. In 1873 he moved his office to Logan,
where he remained three years; and then sold to Geo. Ross, of Harlan, Shelby
county, to which place the office was removed. Mr. Musgrave's next venture was
at Tekamah, Neb., where he published the Nebraska Advocate; finally sold out and
located at Woodbine and established the Twiner, which has a subscription list of
about nine hundred, and an office fitted in first-class manner.

W. C. Samson, M. D., was born in Batemantown, Knox county, O.; removed with
parents to Licking county, O. In 1863 he enlisted in the 76th O. Vet. Vol., was
through Gen. Sherman's campaign, march to the sea, etc., and a large number of
the prominent battles; was discharged in July, 1865; returned to Ohio, and after
visiting home, came to Ia., again returning to O. to attend the Medical College,
at Cincinnati, from which he graduated in 1875. He then came to Cedar Rapids,
Ia., and engaged in the practice of medicine with Dr. Yarnell, of that city. In
the spring of 1876, removed to Woodbine and is now recognized as one of the
leading physicians in the county. He was married April 4th, 1878, to Laura A.
Pugsley, at Woodbine. They have one child. Dr. S. has been a member of the city
council several years; is a charter member of the I. O. O. F. lodge.

Comstock Willey, farmer, was born in Asthabula county, O., in 1821; removed to
Harrison county, Ia., in 1867, and located on present farm, in Boyer township;
owns 170 acres of good farming land, well improved, with bearing vineyard of two
hundred vines, and good young orchard. He lias been justice of the peace five
years; is a member of the A. F. & A. M. order. He was married in Asthabula
county, O., to Rosanna Bell, and has four children.

Irving C. Wood, M. D., was born in 1857, in Franklin county, N. Y., attended the
Delaware Institute, at Franklin, graduating in the literary course in 1875. He
attended the Medical Department, of University, at N. Y. City, also Jefferson
Medical College, at Philadelphia, Pa., where he received degree in 1880; the
following spring took a practical course in operative surgery at the
Philadelphia School of Anatomy, and was assistant surgeon at the Pa. hostital in
out-patient surgical department one year. In July, 1881, he located at Woodbine,
Ia.: office at Mr. Giddings' drug store. Dr. Wood, is already enjoying a
lucrative practice. He is a member of the A. F. & A. M. order.

M. M. Vining, proprietor of Temperance billiard hall, was born in 1860, in
Harrison county, Ia. He is a son of Richard Vining, one of the oldest settlers
of the county. He established business in Dec., 1881; keeps for sale
confectionery and cigars, but no intoxicants of any kind.

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.

DUNLAP.

Samuel Baird, proprietor of Baird's livery stable, established in 1869, was born
in 1847; removed with parents to Pa.; thence to Cumberland, Md., and in 1861 to
Galesburg, Ill., when he engaged with his father and brother in the coal
business. In 1863 he enlisted in the 139th lll. Inft., and afterwards enlisted
in the 8th Ill. Cav.; was discharged in 1865, and returned to Galesburg, and was
employed in the flouring mills until 1869, when he moved to Dunlap and engaged
in his present business. He was elected justice of the peace in 1877, which
office he still holds; was mayor of Dunlap in 1877, and the first marshal of the
city; is at present district deputy grand marshal of the Odd Fellows lodge. He
was married in 1865, at Henderson, Ill., to Miss Sears, and has one son and two
daughters.

Geo. D. Bryan, stock dealer and shipper, was born in Howard county, Ia., in
1857; moved with parents to Burritt, Ill.; thence in 1869 to Dunlap, Ia. In 1875
he was employed in Jackson's hardware store; in 1877 engaged in the stock
business with his brother, T. J., as partner. They bought and shipped from Col.
and Wyoming, as also in this vicinity. They also raised thoroughbred cattle. In
Dec., 1880, they shipped a car load to Chicago which averaged 2,080 lbs. Geo. D.
B. is now sole proprietor of the business at Dunlap. He is a member of the I. O.
O. F. order.

E. K. Burch, attorney at law, was born in 1852, in Steuben county, Ind.; removed
with his parents to Hillsdale, Mich., where he attended the Hillsdale Baptist
College for five years; graduated from the law department of the Union
University of Albany, N. Y., in 1876, and the same year was admitted to the bar,
at the general term of the supreme court. He commenced practice in Dunlap, Ia.,
in Jan., 1879. He was admitted to the circuit court in the fall of 1878. He is a
member of the I. O. O. F. order. He was married in Sept., 1880, at Denison, to
M. S. Kuhn.

W. H. Bush, of the firm of Lowell & Bush, harness makers and dealers in all
kinds of horse furnishings, was born in 1849, in Morris county, N. J.; moved to
Des Moines, Ia., in 1869; there learned the mason's trade with Morris & Naphey,
and moved to Denison, Ia., in 1873; worked at the trade until 1881, when he
formed his present partnership. They keep two men employed, and in the spring of
1882 will move business to larger building.

G. W. Chamberlain, of the lirm of Chamberlain & Lyman, dealers in groceries and
queensware, was born in Feb., 1838, at Grand Detour, Ill. He enlisted in the
75th Ill. Inft., and was discharged in 1863, on account of lung disease;
returned to Ill., and in 1868 came to Dunlap, Ia., and opened a restaurant,
which he sold in 1874; remained out of business two years; then engaged in his
present business with Geo. Baker, who sold to H. Gleason, and he to Mr. Lyman in
1881. He was town recorder two years, and member of the city council. He was
married in Sterling, Ill., to Marv Ellmaker, who engaged in the millinery
business in 1869, which she still continues, carrying a large and complete stock
of goods, at her location on Upper Ia. avenue.

Thomas M. Clements, grain dealer, was born in Sheffield, Ill., June 6th, 1865;
moved with parents to Geneseo, Ill.; thence to Greenwood. He attended the High
school at Chicago two years; came to Dunlap, Ia., in 1879, and formed a
partnership with F. E. Pike in the grain and agricultural implement business;
sold his interest in agricultural implement business to Mr. Pike in Feb., 1881;
bought Mr. P.'s interest in the elevator in Dec., 1881, and now occupies what is
known as the old Grange elevator.

E. J. Cronkleton, of the firm of Cronkleton & Warren, contractors and builders,
was born in Delaware county, O., in 1835; learned his trade at Columbus, and in
1856 moved to Lyons, Ia., and the next year moved to Davenport. In 1861 he
enlisted in the 2nd Ia. Cav. He was in a number of important battles, and was
taken prisoner at Ripley, Miss., in July, 1864, and imprisoned at Cahaba. Ala.;
was released at the close of the war and discharged in 1865, at Davenport. In
the spring of 1866 he went to Montana; returned in the fall, and located at Fort
Dodge; in the summer of 1867 came to Dunlap and established his present
business. He married Julia O'Hare at Boone, Ia., and has four children.

M. C. Dally, of the firm of Patterson, Dally & Co., dealers in general
merchandise, was born in Hamilton county, Ia., in 1857; came to Harrison county
with parents in 1859. He was bookkeeper for Mitchell & Laub, for three and
one-half years previous to engaging in his present business.

Frank P. Eaton, painter and auctioneer, was born in Concord, N. H., in 1844;
removed with his parents to Cass county, Mich. In 1862 enlisted in Co. I, 4th
Mich. Cav.; was in several important battles; was discharged in Sept., 1864, on
account of injuries received from being thrown from a horse; returned to Mich,
and became a member of the firm of Eaton Bros. & Co., carriage and wagon
manufacturers, at Dowagiac. In 1867, he engaged in traveling for a Chicago
house, which he continued until 1871; then settled at Dunlap, Ia., and engaged
in farming in Harrison township for three years, and in 1874 was appointed
deputy sheriff, under J. J. Peck; was also constable, marshal and street
commissioner of Dunlap. He is a member of J. G. Shattuck's detective association
of Dubuque, la. He was married Dec. 17th, 1868, to Florence Thomas, at Dowagiac,
Mich. He is a member of the I. O. O. F. lodge.

D. B. Erisman, wholesale dealer and manufacturer of cigars and tobacco, factory
No. 220: was born in Lancaster, Penn., in 1844. He learned his trade there, and
then established business in Lincoln, Neb., which he continued four and one-half
years, and in July, 1881, established his present business in Dunlap, Ia. Keeps
three men employed, and has a fine trade.

S. D. Fox, of the firm of Fox & Dabelstein, dealers in and manufacturers of
boots and shoes, was born in Manchester, Eng., in 1847; learned,his trade, and
in 1869 came to America; located at Sylvania, O., where he engaged ,in boot and
shoe making. In 1874 he removed to Bolton City, Col., and engaged in business;
the next year came to Dunlap, Ia., and engaged in his present business and
partnership. In 1875 he was married at Grand Rapids, Mich., to Miss Dabelstein,
and has three children.

A. H. Hazlett, M. D., was born in Richland county, O.,in 1837; attended the
Hayesville Academy, and in 1857 removed to Toledo, Ia., where he studied
medicine with Dr. Baldy. In 1861 he enlisted in the 14th Ia. Inft.; was in a
number of important battles; was promoted to first lieutenant, and discharged in
1865; returned to Ia, and located in Johnson county. He resumed the study of
medicine, and engaged in teaching school until 1872, when he went to Iowa City
and attended the medical department of the Iowa University, and the next year
attended tne Eclectic Medical Institute at Cincinnati, O., from which he
graduated in 1874. He engaged in the practice of his profession at Grand
Junction, Ia., until, 1878, when he moved to Dunlap. where he has established a
large practice. In Sept., 1866, he was married to Miss Kibler. of Johnson
county, Iowa.

R. B. Hillas, dealer in general merchandise, was born in Vt. in 1836: moved to
Detroit, Mich., at an early age. He enlisted in the 19th Ill. Inft.; was with
the Army of the Cumberland, under Gens. Sherman and Thomas; was discharged in
1865; went to Chicago and was engaged in the house of J. V. Farwell & Co.; in
1876 removed to Dunlap, Ia., and engaged in his present business, which was the
first business house established in the town. The establishment was destroyed by
fire in 1873. His present store building was erected in 1878, is filled with a
fine stock of goods, and has merchant tailoring in connection. He has been a
member of the city council several years.

W. T. Howard, saddler and harnessmaker, was born in Mercer county. Pa., in 1816;
moved to Fayette county. Ia., locating near West Union, in 1855. with his
parents, who engaged in farming. In 1867 he removed to Kossuth county, and two
years later to Denison, Crawford county; engaged for a time in teaching school
at Dow City, and in 1870 removed to Dunlap, and engaged in his present business.
He keeps three men employed, and does an extensive business. He has been mayor
of the city, and is a member of the I. O. O. F. lodge and encampment. He was
married in 1870, at Denison, to Mary E. Eaton, and has one child.

Walter Kavanaugh, proprietor of billiard hall and saloon, in basement of Lehan's
Opera Block; established in 1879; entrance on first street, dealer in wines,
beer, and cigars, and has two fine Brunswick & Balke tables.

E. W. Lyman, of the firm of Chamberlain & Lyman, dealers in groceries and
queensware, was born in N. Y. in 1850; engaged in milling until 1870. when he
removed to Dunlap, Ia., and was in the employ of the C. and N. W. Ry. until
1881. when he engaged in his present business. He is a member of the I. O. O. F.
order. In 1874 he was married in Dunlap to Miss Lowry. They have three children.

Chas. Mackenzie, attorney at law, was born in N. Y. City in 1845; removed with
his parents to Dubuque, Ia., in 1849; graduated from Beloit College, Wis., in
1862, and the same year enlisted in the 9th Ia. Vol. Inft.; was in several
important battles, and was discharged in 1875. He was secretary of a government
commission in New Mexico one year; returned to Dubuque and was engaged as
principal of the public schools of that city for one and one-half years, and was
associate editor of the Dubuque Times one year; studied law and was admitted to
the bar in 1868; engaged in the practice of law, and in 1871 removed to Eldora;
thence to Mason City, and in the spring of 1875 located at Sioux City and
engaged in the practice of law with M. B. Davis, where he remained until Jan.,
1881, when he removed to Dunlap.

C. D. Mitchell, of the firm of Mitchell & Thompson, dealers in general
merchandise, was born in Athens, O., in 1842. In 1862 he enlisted in the 7th O.
Cav.; was in a number of important engagements, and was promoted to captain and
assistant adjutant general; was discharged July 4th, 1865 and returned to O.,
and in May, 1866, came to Harrison county and engaged in stock raising; in July,
1867, established his present business with H. C. Laub, of Denison; afterwards,
Mr. L. retiring, he carried on the business alone, until forming his present
partnership in Sept., 1879. They carry a large stock, occupying the three floors
of their large store building. Mr. M. is a member of the A. F. & A. M. order.

J. T. Noonan, proprietor of the Dunlap meat market, was born in Va. in 1851;
removed to Tenn. with parents, and in 1861 to Ky.; thence to Galway, Ireland;
remained seven years; returned to America; lived in N. Y., N. J., and Tenn., and
finally, in 1872, settled at Dunlap, Ia., and for two years engaged in farming;
then was employed in the meat market of Dunham & Guilford, and in 1879
established his present business. He is a member of the city council; also the
fire department; is president of the Ancient Order of Hibernians; was county
delegate of that order in 1881, and is vice-president of the Dunlap land league.

J. B. Patterson, of the firm of Patterson, Dally & Co., was born in Highland
county, O., in 1847; moved to Harrison county, Ia., 1867; was engaged in
clerking for R. B. Hillas two years, then for Mitchell & Laub eight and one-half
years, and June 20th, 1879, formed his present partnership. He enlisted in the
late rebellion in 1863, in the 18th O. Inft.; was in several battles, and was
discharged in the autumn of 1865. He was married in Oct., 1871, to Maggie
Farren, and has three children.

H. E. Pease, proprietor of Sheltered Twin livery barn, was born in Mich, in
1845; went to Chicago in 1860, and was employed as newsboy on the C. and N. W.
Ry. for about eighteen months; then as brakeman in Tenn. during the war; then
promoted to conductor, and at the close of the war, located at Jefferson, Green
county, Ia., and was engaged in running dray, express, mail and delivery wagons
until 1868, when he removed to Dunlap and engaged in his present business. He
has been deputy sheriff two terms; also constable, street commissioner, and
marshal of this city. He is a member of the Legion of Honor beneficiary
insurance society. He was married in Dunlap in 1871 to Julia Ford, and has one
child.

Z. W. Pease, blacksmith and wagonmaker, was born in Blissfield, Mich., in 1842;
learned his trade at Adrian, and in 1870 moved to Dunlap, Ia., and rented a shop
and engaged in his present business, which has increased so that he bought the
building in 1873, and in 1881 moved it back and erected in front a large two
story shop with three forges; keeps three men constantly employed. He is a
member of the I. O. O. F. lodge and encampment. In 1868 he married Lizzie
Francisco, at Blissfield, Mich. They have one son and two daughters.

Dr. B. F. Philbrook, one of the oldest established dentists in the county, was
born in Camden, Me., in 1853; removed with his parents to O.. and received his
education at the Ohio Weslyan University, at Delaware; moved to Ia., and engaged
in the practice of dentistry with T. E. Weeks, of Council Bluffs; remained
eighteen months, and in April, 1879; located at Dunlap. He has one of the best
fitted offices in the west, with Johnson s dental engine, extension instrument,
bracket, surgeon's case of liquid nitrous oxide gas, for the painless extraction
of teeth, the pedal lever chair, with which any position can be obtained for the
ease of the patient and operator. He fills appointments at Logan the first
Tuesday in each month, and remains three days, and also goes to Woodbine one day
each month. He is foreman of the fire department of Dunlap, and a member of the
Royal Arcanum, beneficiary order. In Nov., 1879, he was married at Omaha, Neb.,
to Lucy Hartry.

Frank E. Pike, dealer in agricultural implements, was born in Erie county, N.
Y., in 1851; moved with parents to Sterling, Ill., in 1856; thence removed to
Boone, Ia., and was employed as brakeman on the C. & N. W. Ry., for nine months;
then was promoted to conductor, in which position he continued until 1879, when
he came to Dunlap and engaged in the grain and agricultural implement business
in partnership with T. M. Clements. In Dec., 1880, he purchased Mr. C's.
interest in the machinery business, and a year later sold his interest in the
grain business to Mr. C. Mr. Pike handles the best goods in his line that are
made, and keeps constantly on hand a large stock. He is a member of the
beneficiary insurance society. He was married at Carroll, Ia., Jan. 1st, 1879,
to Emma S. Town.

J. H. Read, of the firm of J. H. Read & Co., bakers, grocers and confectioners,
was born in Kendall county, Ill., in May, 1855; removed with parents to Bureau
county, and in 1868, came to Ia., and located in Cerro Gordo county; removed to
Dunlap in 1878, and established his present business; has oyster and ice cream
parlors in connection; has Vernon's patent steam coffee and peanut roaster, and
keeps constantly on hand new-made candies. He is a member of the I. O. O. F.,
and A. F. & A. M. lodges. He was married at Dunlap in Aug., 1879, to Miss
Zimmerman.

Issacher Scholfield, miller and proprietor of the Dunlap mills, was born in
Delaware county, O., in 1833; moved with parents to Wis., and located near
Milwaukee, where his father engaged in milling, mercantile business and farming,
and he in attending the Quaker Acadamy in Belmont county, O.; and in 1853
engaged in land speculating in Marshall county, Ia., which he continued for
three years; then entered into partnership with his brother, and built a mill
one and one-half miles north of Le Grand on the Iowa river; this he sold in
1866, and built a mill on Timber Creek in Marshall county, which he sold in
1869, and came to Harrison county, locating permanently in 1871, and commenced
building his present mill on the Boyer river. He has a fine stock farm,
adjoining the mill, of two thousand acres, and one of the finest conservatories
in the west. He is also proprietor of the Dunlap Reporter. He was married May
7th, 1857, at La Grange, Ia., to Mary H. Hanks, who is a cousin of President
Abraham Lincoln. She is editress of that portion of the paper devoted to home
decoration, by "Aunt Mary.”

C. H. Sears, proprietor of meat market, was born Jan. 6th, 1852, in Knox county,
Ill.; removed to Dunlap in 1869; was in the employ of S. M. Williams, and
afterwards with Mitchell & Laub; then engaged in farming for six years, and in
Dec., 1881, purchased his present market of B. J. Moore. In 1875, he was married
in Ill. to Ida C. Hickman. They have three children.

L. A. Sherman, dealer in groceries, queensware, boots and shoes, was born in
Fairfield, Vt., in 1854; moved with his parents to Texas in 1860, and in 1870
they came to Dunlap, and his father, J. H. Sherman, established the present
business; in 1876 he became a partner with his father, and two years later
bought him out; has been town treasurer one term, and is a member of the Iowa
land league. In 1877, he was married at Elk Horn, Wis., to Fannie Sabine, and
has one child, a daughter.

D. P. Simmons, of the firm of Simmons & Co., dealers in hardware and
agricultural implements, was born in Courtlandt county, N. Y., in 1849; removed
with parents to Beloit, Wis., in 1854, where he attended the Beloit College;
then traveled for Northwestern Paper Co., of Chicago; then for Booth & Hinman,
of Beloit, and in 1873 engaged in the boot and shoe business. In 1879, he
removed to Dunlap, Ia., and bought out the stock of Mr. Jackson, and with T. S.
Simmons, engaged in his present business. They handle goods from the leading
manufactories, and employ a first class tinner. He is a member of the Morning
Star lodge, number ten; also the A. F. & A. M. order. He is a member of the city
council. In 1876 he was married at Rockford, Ill., to Alice Early, and has one
child.

Geo. W. Thompson, of the firm of Mitchell & Thompson, was born Mar. 26th, 1842,
in Whiteside county. Ill. He enlisted in Aug., 1862, in the 8th Ill. Cav.; was
in several important battles, and in Dec., 1863, was transferred to the command
of Co. C, U. S. colored troops; was discharged in Dec., 1865, and returned to
Morrison, Ill., and engaged in the study of law; was admitted to the bar in
Nov., 1866, and practiced there until the spring of 1869, when he came to
Dunlap, Ia., where he continued the practice of law, until the organization of
the Dunlap bank in 1871, of which he was a stockholder and cashier; remained in
the banking business until Sept., 1879, when he formed his present partnership.
He has been chairman of the county republican central committee, and a delegate
to state conventions, and is well known as one of the county's leading
republican politicians. He is a member of the A. F. & A. M., I. O. O. F., K. of
P., and G. A. R. orders. Dec. 21st, 1865, he was married to Susan Forrer, and
has five sons.

J. R. Wheeler, dealer in lumber and coal, was born in N. Y. in 1834; removed to
Eau Claire, Wis., in 1854, and engaged in the lumber business. In 1861 he
enlisted in the 16th Wis. Inft.; was wounded in the face by a bullet at Shiloh;
carries two gun-shot wounds in his legs, and received injuries at Atlanta; was
discharged in April, 1865; returned to Wis. and engaged in shipping lumber, and
in Nov., 1866, established lumber yards at Denison and Woodbine, and the next
year established a yard at Dunlap. He sold the first lumber sold in Crawford and
Harrison counties. He established a yard at Blair, Neb., in 1868. He has been a
member of the city council of Dunlap for several years. In 1875 he was married
in Fremont county, Ia., to N. E. Tyler, and has one child, a son.

John Weed, contractor and builder, was born in O. in 1825; learned his trade at
Orrville, and moved to Mich. In 1850, went to Cal.. and in 1853 returned to
Allegan county, Mich., and worked at his trade five years; then moved to Kane
county. Ill.; engaged in farming until 1861, when he enlisted in the 8th Ill.
Cav.; was in numerous engagements, and July 20th, 1865, was discharged, and
returned to Ill., and worked at his trade until 1866, when he moved to Dunlap,
Ia., there being at the time only one house where the city now stands. He was
married in May, 1870, at Woodbine, to Martha Willey, and has three children.

Tilton & Weeks, proprietors of livery, feed and sale barn, have stable room for
thirty horses; board private rigs, and keep fine rigs for hire. They came to
Dunlap from Ogle county, Ill., in 1878, and engaged in farming until entering
their present business in the spring of 1881.

MAGNOLIA.

Capt. George S. Bacon, farmer, was born in Cayuga county, N. Y., in Sept., 1825.
He moved to Washington. D. C, where he attended the Columbia College; graduated
in the regular course in 1849, and afterwards taught in the College. He moved to
Fairmont, W. Va.; thence in 1856 to Harrison county, Ia., and located on the
farm of one hundred and forty acres, where he now resides. On this farm is an
extensive orchard of fifteen hundred bearing apple trees. He enlisted in 1862.
was first lieutenant of Co. C., 29th Ia. Inft., until the death of Capt. Fuller,
when he was appointed Capt. He was in a number of important battles, and was
wounded at Jenkins' Ferry, Ark., left on the field for dead, captured and held
in prison thirteen months. He was exchanged in May, 1865, and returned with the
last lot of prisoners. He was discharged in August of the same year. He has been
treasurer of Harrison county two terms. In 1850 he married Mrs. Caroline Murphy,
at Magnolia. They have two daughters.

RIVER SIOUX.

B. F. Bonney, dealer in groceries, is a native of Pa.; moved to Ia., in 1857;
settled in Harrison county, and engaged in farming. He engaged in his present
business in River Sioux in 1877.

James Bowie, dealer in drugs and groceries, was born in Ireland in 1821; came to
America in 1840, and located in O. He removed to Little Sioux, Ia., in 1865, and
in 1879 engaged in his present business at River Sioux.

Henry Herring, dealer in general merchandise, was born in Adams county, Pa.;
moved to Ia. in 1857, and engaged in farming. In 1878 he engaged in his present
business at River Sioux. He is also a dealer in hardware and lumber.

R. Newton, agent for the S. C & P. Ry. at River Sioux, is a native of N. Y.;
moved to Boone county, Ia.; in 1864; thence to Green county, and in 1868 settled
in Harrison county. He was the first agent for this road, and billed the first
freight on the road.


Additional Comments:
From book: The History of Western Iowa, Its Settlement and Growth; Harrison
County Chapter; 1882 Sioux City: Western Publishing Company

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