Lucas-Lee County IA Archives Biographies.....Dora, Benjamin F. 1829 - 
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Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1896)

B. F. DORA, whose postoffice address is Chariton, Iowa, and who is ranked with
the representative farmers of Warren township, Lucas county, has made his home
here since 1855. Following is a brief review of his life:

   B. F. Dora was born in Bracken county, Kentucky, forty miles above
Cincinnati, December 12, 1829. John Dora, his father, was born in Maryland, son
of Talmi Dora, the latter also a native of Maryland and a representative of a
highly respected family. His father, a native of England, in some way incurred
the displeasure of the king and on that account fled for refuge to America and
never returned to his native land. His son John was reared in Maryland, where he
learned the trade of cooper and became an expert mechanic. He married Hester
Truitt, also a native of Maryland, and after their marriage they removed to
Kentucky and located in Bracken county, where, as already stated, the subject of
our sketch was born. The names of their other children are Susan, Anna, William,
John, Sarah, James and Augustus G. The father died in Bracken county, at the
advanced age of ninety years. In politics he was first a Whig and afterward a
Republican, and in religion both he and his wife were Methodists.

   Benjamin F., the subject of our sketch, was reared in his native county and
there acquired the blacksmith's trade which he followed several years.
Emigrating to Iowa in 1853, he first located at West Point, Lee county, where he
worked at his trade about eighteen months. In 1855 he came to his present
location, then all wild land, and here he built a cabin and settled down to the
work of developing a farm. He is now the owner of 150 acres of excellent land,
well fenced and under a high state of cultivation, and provided with comfortable
residence, good barn, orchard and grove, and all having an air of general
prosperity.

   Mr. Dora was married in Brown county, Ohio, to Catherine Miller, a native of
that county and a daughter of D. J. and Mary Miller. Her parents settled in
Warren township, Lucas county, Iowa, in 1855, and here they passed the closing
years of their lives. Following are the names of the children composing their
family: James, William, Sophia, Catherine, Josiah, Mary, Henry, Augusta, and
LaFayette. Two of the sons, Henry and LaFayette, were participants in the late
war. William is deceased. Of the children born to Mr. and Mrs. Dora, we make
record as follows : Alvin, a resident of Galena, Kansas, is engaged in lead
mining; Mary is the wife of C. W. McCullough, of this township; Luversa is the
wife of G. L. McCullough, also of this township; and Miss Lillie is engaged in
the milinery business in Kingsley, Iowa. They had one child, John, who died at
the age of three years; and they also have an adopted son, Earnest Dora, who is
now sixteen years old and whom they have had since he was a babe of three
months, bestowing upon him the same kind care that their own children have
received.

   Mr. Dora has been a Republican ever since this party was organized. During
the war he showed his patriotism by joining the Union ranks and acting well his
part as a brave, true soldier. It was in August, 1862, and as a member of
Company E, Thirty-fourth Iowa Volunteer Infantry, that he entered the army. He
was at the siege of Vicksburg, in General Banks' expedition up Red river, and at
various other points in the South, and at the close of the war received an
honorable discharge. Of a genial, jovial, honest nature, he has the happy
faculity of making friends with all with whom he comes in contact.


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A MEMORIAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF IOWA

ILLUSTRATED

CHICAGO: THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1896

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