Lucas County IA Archives Biographies.....Huntley, Lyman Southard 1830 - 
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Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1896)

CAPTAIN LYMAN SOUTHARD HUNTLEY.-The Scotch type is one which has found many
representatives in the New World, and is one that has ever been found foremost
in giving impetus to the march of progress, in retaining a clear mental grasp
and in directing affairs along safe and conservative lines. America owes much to
the Scotch stock, and has honored and been honored by noble men and women of
this extraction. The gentleman with whose name we are pleased to grace this
article, Mr. L. S. Huntley, is the descendant of a Scotchman, and in him are
found many of the sterling characteristics of his worthy ancestors. As a
prominent and honored citizen of Lucas county, Iowa, he is entitled to specific
consideration here, and we take pleasure in presenting the following resume of
his life: L. S. Huntley was born in Sullivan county, in the State of New
Hampshire, November 27, 1838. His father, Sebra Huntley, was a native of New
Hampshire and a son of General Luman Huntley, a Scotchman by birth and an
officer in the war of 1812, who was one of the early settlers of the Granite
State. Sebra Huntley was reared in New Hampshire, and was a maker of musical
instruments of all kinds. He married Nancy Nesmith, like himself, a native of
New Hampshire, and when their son L. S. was a babe the father died, leaving his
widow with three children, the other two being Janette C. and Harriet. Of these
daughters we record that the former became the wife of Dr. E. Y. Chase, of
Oregon, and is now deceased, and that the latter, the wife of D. W. Jones, of
Red Oak, Iowa, died in 1892. The mother was afterward married to Nathan Dustin,
of Galena, Ohio, and died at Red Oak, Iowa, in 1893, at the age of seventy-six
years.

   Thus in early life deprived of a father's care, the subject of our sketch was
reared to farm life by Mr. Samuel Clark and son. At the age of seventeen he went
to Galena, Delaware county, Ohio, where his common-school education was
supplemented by an academy course. When the Civil war broke out he was not slow
to show his patriotism. At Lincoln's call for 300,000, he responded and became a
member of Company G, Ninety-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and went to the
front, leaving behind his wife and babe. He was first under fire at Arkansas
Post. To give a detailed account of the engagements in which he participated
would be to write a history of much of the war. Suffice it here to state that he
took part in no less than twenty-two battles and skirmishes, many of them hotly
contested; that he went in as a private and was from time to time promoted for
his gallant conduct on the battle-field until he reached the Captaincy. On one
occasion, at the engagement at Sabine Cross Roads, he was reported by a comrade
as killed, and the news reached his home in Ohio.

   The war over, Mr. Huntley decided to locate in Iowa and accordingly came
hither. He purchased 320 acres of land on section 10, Warren township, Lucas
county, and to-day has one of the finest farms in all the country round. He has
a comfortable residence nicely located, a large barn, two modern windmills, and
his land is divided into broad pastures of bluegrass and well cultivated fields
of grain. Not only as a farmer, but also as a stock man has he been successful,
raising the best of horses, cattle, sheep and hogs.

   He was married March 23, 1860, at Galena, Ohio, to Mary E. Allen, a native of
that place and a daughter of prominent early settlers of Ohio. Her father,
Harlow Allen, was born in Vermont, a relative of the distinguished Col. Ethan
Allen of Revolutionary fame. Her mother, whose maiden name was Eveline
Carpenter, was a daughter of Moses Carpenter, a native of Luzerne county,
Pennsylvania, and one of the early pioneers of Delaware county, Ohio. Mr. Allen
died in Galena and Mrs. Allen in Chariton, Iowa. Their family was composed of
seven children, viz.: Heman W., who died at Jefferson Barracks in Missouri, was
a member of the Ninety-sixth Ohio Infantry and was Hospital Steward; Mrs.
Huntley; Hattie F., of Chariton, Iowa; Mattie C., a popular and successful
teacher of Hot Springs, South Dakota; J. C., of Springfield, Missouri; Frances,
deceased in early life; Lou E., wife of S. E. Wilson, Hot Springs, South Dakota.
Mr. and Mrs. Huntley have four children living, as follows: Clark W., a
successful teacher and engineer; Edith J., wife of William Brewer, of Chariton,
Iowa; Frank S. and Mary E., at home. They had one son, Willard A., who died at
the age of twenty years.

   Captain Huntley is a Republican. Indeed, he is one of the most active and
zealous workers for his party and may well be termed a "wheelhorse." He has been
Assessor for seven years, has served in most of the township offices, and has
been a delegate to county, Congressional and State conventions, and in every
position to which he has been called he has performed faithful and effective
service, always acquitting himself with credit. He is a man with a clean record.
Recently he has been brought out as a candidate for the State Legislature, his
friends believing him to be the most available man for the office, and his
present prospects are indeed most flattering. A veteran of the late war, he is,
of course, identified with that popular organization known as the G. A. R. He is
also a member of the I. O. O. F.


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A MEMORIAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF IOWA

ILLUSTRATED

"A people that take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will
never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote
descendants."'—MACAULAY.

"Biography is by nature the must universally profitable, universally pleasant,
of all things."—CARLYLE

"History is only biography on a large scale"—LAMARTINE.

CHICAGO: THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1896


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