Ida County IA Archives Biographies.....Preston, James C. 1852 - 
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Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1893)

JAMES C. PRESTON, proprietor of the "Willow Dale" stock-farm near Battle Creek,
in Maple township, Ida county, Iowa, was born in Forfarshire, Scotland, August
27, 1852, son of John and Matilda (Hill) Preston. He was the fifth-born in a
family of eight children, was reared to farm life and was educated in the
schools of his native land. At the age of nineteen he came to America and
located in Kane county, Illinois, and from there, in 1872, came to Ida county,
Iowa. Here for five years he was, in company with his brother Andrew,
successfully engaged in farming. In 1877 he bought eighty acres of wild land,
has since made other purchases, and is now the owner of 200 acres, one of the
best farms in the township. It is nicely improved and utilized as a stock and
grain farm. His house, 24 x 32 feet, is a story and a half, and is surrounded
with lawn and forest trees. He has a grove and orchard of ten acres. His barn,
sheds, cribs, feed lots, fences, etc., are all kept in first-class order.
Aldrich creek flows through his broad acres and furnishes an abundant supply of
water for stock purposes. He keeps the best grade of stock, is the pioneer in
raising red-polled cattle in this vicinity, and has some of the finest cattle to
be found in western Iowa. He also raises Poland-China hogs.

  Mr. Preston was married in Ida county Iowa, in 1875, to Miss Lizzie L. Todd,
who, was born in Fifeshire, Scotland, daughter of James and Christena (Cragie)
Todd, now of Ida Grove. They have two children: David C. and Amy H.

  Mr. Preston's political views are in harmony with Republican principles, and
in the ranks of that party he is an active worker. He also takes an active
interest in the temperance cause and in church and Sabbath-school work. He and
his wife are members of the Presbyterian Church, and he has been Secretary and a
Trustee of the church for a number of years and is now Deacon. He has been
Sabbath-school Superintendent for three years, and is now President of the
Sabbath-school Association of Ida county. He is also President of the School
Board of this township, which office he has filled for three years. Mr. Preston
is a man in the prime of life, is frank and jovial with all, and few men in this
vicinity have more friends than he.


Additional Comments:
Extracted From:

BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY OF 
Crawford, Ida and Sac Counties, Iowa.

Containing Portraits of all the Presidents of the United States, with
accompanying Biographies; a Condensed History of Iowa, with Portraits and
Biographies of the Governors of the State; Engravings of Prominent Citizens of
the Counties, wth [sic] Personal Histories of many of the Early Settlers and
Leading Families.

"Biography is the only true history."—Emerson.

CHICAGO: THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY.
1893.


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