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Danforth, Challen, Winterset; hardware-dealer; born in Henderson county, Illinois, January 30, 1844; in 1849 his mother, who was a widow, removed to this county, bringing her two children, the subject of this sketch and an older brother. His mother, if not the first school-teacher in Winterset, was one of the first; he enlisted in the 47 the Iowa Inf., and in 1864 engaged in the hardware business, and is at the present time associated with his brother under the firm name of Danforth Bros.; he married Miss Lydia Sturman in 1872; she was born in Missouri; has two children: Beulah and Harry. Daniel, Daniel, Scott twp., farmer and stock-dealer, Sec. 19; P.O. Winterset; born in Jackson county, Indiana, April 2, 1840; he lived there until he was thirteen, past, and then came with his father to this county in September, 1853, and located in this township August 18, 1864; he married Miss Addie, daughter of William Compton, Esq., one of the early settlers of this county; she was born in Washington county, Iowa; they have one son and four daughters: Ettie, John D., Luella, Maggie M. and Daisie; Mr. Daniel, after the breaking out of the war, enlisted in the Seventeenth, Indiana infantry, company G, May 20, 1861; he was in the battles of Mission Ridge and Chickamauga, and in numerous skirmishes, and was mustered out June 20, 1864, at Columbia, Tennessee; owns 333 acres of land. Darnall, James Albert, Winterset; harness-maker, of the firm of Darnall & Mullikin; born in Hendricks county, Indiana in 1843, and came to this State in 1858, county in 1872; he enlisted in the 28th Iowa Inf., Co. C, in the late war, and served three years; he married Miss Jennie Quaintance, in 1871; she was born in Ohio; has two children: Orion P. and Pearl. Dart, Orman, Penn twp., farmer, Sec.26; P.O. Earlham; owns 160 acres of land; born in Oneida county, New York; married in 1861 (to Rhoda S. Tinkham); Mr. Dart came first to Ohio in an early day, then to Illinois, and from there to Iowa in 1868; he has four children living: Albert L., Balfor W., Walter E. and Arthur L.; Mr. Dart has been quite extensively engaged in hog raising; has lost from cholera, during the last six years, over $4,000 worth. Davis, Otho, Webster twp., merchant; P.O. Middle River; was born in Erie county, Pa., in 1817, and emigrated to Jefferson county, in this State, in 1839, and removed to this county in 1850; owns 145 acres of land; he laid out the town of Webster, and settled in this township in 1856, and is and has been postmaster for many years; he has held all the township offices; he married Jane Cochran in 1843; she was born in Ireland, and died in 1866; the fruits of this marriage were seven children: Sarah A., Henry C., Lydia J., George, John T. and Eva living, and one daughter, Ida, deceased; he married for his second wife, Mrs. Amanda Drake; she was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania. Deardorff, William, Ohio twp., farmer, Sec. 18; P.O. Ohio (twp.); was born in Henry county, Iowa, in the year 1843, December 20; his parents came to Iowa in about 1839; they moved to Mahaska county when he was about five years old and was raised there; August 13, 1862, he enlisted in company B, 40th Iowa Infantry, and was mustered out at Davenport August 16, 1865; was in the following engagements: Saline River, Ark., Siege of Vicksburg, Prairie De Ann, and Camden, Ark.; after his return he married Miss Emma Simmons, October 3, 1873, a native of Green county, Ohio; they have two daughters: Nora I., born July 9, 1874, Hallie Z., born October 17, 1877, has farm of 105 acres. Debord, Edward Clinton, South twp., farmer, Sec. 7; P.O. Patterson; born in this township, September 14, 1851, and has lived there ever since; he married Miss Jonan (Joanna) Hicks, February 27, 1873; a native of Putnam county, Indiana; they have one daughter: Elnora. Debord, Meres C., South twp., farmer, Sec. 27; P.O. Winterset; born in Washington county, Virginia, September 13, 1823; he lived there until he was thirteen years of age, when his parents moved to Shelby county, Indiana; he married Mary M. McClellan, January 19, 1843; soon after removed to Illinois, where he lived about three years; September, 1849, he came to this county and located where he now lives; owns a farm of 310 acres; they have tow sons and one daughter; Emmarine C., Edward C. and Columbus; was justice of the peace one term, and member of the board of supervisors one term. Dick, John P., Ohio twp.; Sec. 31; P.O. Prairie Grove; was born in Indiana county, Pa., January 20, 1833; was raised there, came to Iowa and located in Burlington in 1854; while there, he married to Sarah E. Franks, December 23, 1859; she is a native of Pa.; they have three sons and three daughters: William A., John H., Franklin, Alice, Kate and Laura; they came to this county in 1868, and located where they now live; owns 80 acres. Diston, Thomas, Penn twp., farmer, Sec. 26; P.O. Earlham; owns eighty acres of land; born in 1840 in Devonshire, England; came to Illinois in 1866, and to Iowa in 1871; married in 1872 to Miss Grace Acland of the same shire; has one child living: Sarah A. Doak, William, Jefferson twp., farmer, Sec. 27; P.O. Winterset; born in Lehigh county, Pa., March 9, 1826; he was very young when his parents moved to Richland county, Ohio; his parents moved to Iroquois county, Illinois, when he was nine years of age; he married Miss Mary Uran July 8, 1847; the same fall they came to Warren county, Iowa, and were among the first settlers; he cast his first vote in Iowa in 1852; he went to California by land and drove live yoke of cattle and was five months on the road; he remained there until 1854, and then returned to Iowa; October 2, 1862, he enlisted in the Second Iowa Battery and was mustered out August 11, 1865; he was engaged in the battles of Jackson, Miss., Siege of Vicksburg, second battle of Jackson, Tupelo, Miss., and Nashville, Tenn.; he came to this county in 1857; owns 157 acres of land; has a family of two sons and one daughter: Sarah, now Mrs. William Butler, Andrew and Collie. Downs, David, South twp., farmer, Sec. 24; P.O. St. Charles; born in Monroe county, Indiana, in 1824, he was very young when his parents moved to Hendricks county, and he was raised there; was married there November 12, 1848; he emigrated to Iowa, and Warren county, in the fall of 1850, where he lived until the spring of 1851, and then came to this county and township; he built the first saw-mill in the township; he and his partner, Geo. Hartman, were engaged in the lumber business about three years, and then removed to his present home; owns 307 acres; his wife's maiden name was Elizabeth Hartman, a native of Hendricks county; they have a family of seven sons and three daughters: Mary A., now Mrs. D. DeHaven, Eliza J., John M., Alfred R., Nancy E., James ., Charles M., Frank E., Cassius E. and Walter D. Duer, Thomas Ayers, Winterset; of the firm of Duer & Beerbower, dealers in Groceries, provisions and queensware; born in Trumbull county, Ohio, in 1825, and came to this State in 1852, and to this county in 1855 and has been selling goods almost the entire time; he married Miss M. Tidrick in 1856; she was born in Guernsey county, Ohio; has one daughter: Cornie. Duff, Samuel W., deceased, Douglas twp., farmer, Sec. 24; P.O. Winterset; born in Guernsey county, Ohio, in 1846, and came to this county in 1860; he married Miss Jennie McDonald in 1871; he died November, 1876; left two children: Lena L. and Alvin A. Duncan, Samuel, Lincoln twp., farmer, Sec. 3; P.O. Winterset; was born in New York in 1816; when he was two years of age his parents removed to Ohio, and in 1820 emigrated to Indiana and came to this county May 26, 1853; owns 140 acres of land; has held office of school director for many years; he married Miss Elizabeth Hornback in 1843; she was born in Ohio; has five children: Patsey, Emily, Jennie C., Fremont and Etta. Dunn, Levi, Jackson twp., farmer, Sec. 8; P.O. Dexter; born in Washington county, Ohio, in 1824; removed to Peoria county, Illinois, in 1846, remaining there nine years, when he moved to Schuyler county, Missouri, and in 1857, settled in Warren county, Iowa, where he resided twenty-two years, then located in his present abode; he was married in Peoria county, Illinois, in 1846 to Phebe Bucey, who died in 1861; he married again in 1867 to Martha M. Benum, then of Warren county, Illinois, formerly of Hancock county, Illinois; has nine children living: Laura E., Washington W., Marion F., Jennette, Ellsworth, Belle, William T., Sarah E. and Lewis G.; owns eighty acres of land. E Egy, Mrs. Martha, Lincoln twp., farmer, Sec. 7; P.O. Winterset; was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania; her maiden name was Hughes; she married David Egy December 7, 1847; he was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, in 1824; came to this county in 1855; Mr. Egy died in 1869, leaving an estate of 404 acres of land and four children: Jonathan W. L., James S., George M. H. and David P. P.; lost one daughter, Sarah E. Eldridge, William, South twp., farmer, Sec. 18; P.O. Winterset; born in Hamilton county, Ohio, January 22, 1823; he lived there until fourteen years of age; then went to Clermont county, Ohio, where he lived until he was twenty years old; from there to Shelby county, Indiana; while there he married Miss Rebecca Wray February 1, 1844; she was born in Shelby county; they came to this county in the spring of 1856, and located where they now live; owns ninety acres of land; they have four sons and three daughters: Louisa, Frances, Nancy Ellen, Loson A., Chas. A., John W. and Melvin Ellis, John Calvin, Winterset, farmer, Sec. 29; P.O. Ohio (twp.); born in Fayette county, Ohio, April 15, 1841, and was raised there; he married Miss Emma C. Pierce, of Clark county, Ohio, October 18, 1864; in the fall of 1865, they came to Iowa and stopped in Clarke county; he taught school that winter and moved on the farm on which he now lives the following spring; owns 140 acres of land; was in company I, Sixty- eighth Ohio; was out four months and was taken prisoner, and was paroled shortly afterward; has a family of three sons and three daughters: Iona A., Leo P., Imo G., Retson H., Vinnie R. and Carrie C.; Mr. E. served two terms as justice of the peace, four terms as clerk and four terms as assessor; in the summer of 1866, on his way from the timber to the house, he came across a den of rattlesnakes; after killing four, and while in the act of killing the fifth, it jumped up and bit him on the hand, from which he has since been a cripple. Ellis, Shobal A., Douglas twp., farmer, Sec. 24; P.O. Winterset; born in Vermillion county, Illinois in 1834, and came to Henry county, Iowa, in 1839; he came to this county in 1868; owns 200 acres of land; has held office of township clerk; he was a resident of Kansas during the early border troubles; he has always been a staunch and uncompromising republican; he enlisted in the Eighth Iowa Infantry, and served three years and three months, and was with the regiment all the time and in all the engagements in which it participated; he married Miss Margaret A. Getchell, in 1868; she was born in Ohio, and died December 1878; has four children: John G., Martha E., Jessie M. and Franklin M. Eppard, William Smith, Jackson twp., farmer, Sec. 9; P.O. Dexter; born in Page county, Virginia, January 2, 1845, where he lived until 1866, when he removed to this county; he was married to Mary C. Meadow, of Page county, Virginia, September 20, 1866; by this union they have six children and two dead: Evaline M. J., Sarah E. F., Jacob Henry, Lydia M. G., Lillie V. M., Charlotte D., Willard Mc., and Clarence M.; Jacob and Charlotte died in infancy; owns 320 acres of land with good improvements, located on South Branch of North River, sheltered by a magnificent natural grove on the northwest and a Maple grove on the south; he has a splendid orchard of apples, cherries and pears; this extensive farm is all under cultivation, and is finely located for stock-raising, to which Mr. Eppard gives a great deal of attention. Ettien. John, Webster twp., farmer, Sec. 4; P.O. Middle River; was born in Dauphin county, Pennsylvania, in 1822, and emigrated to Illinois in 1848, and removed to Des Moines county, Iowa, in 1849, and came to this county in 1857, settling on the section where he now resides; he owns 280 acres of land; he married Miss Susan Zeering in 1843; she was also born in Dauphin county, Pennsylvania; has nine children: Mary A., Sarah E., David H., Susan C., Amanda, James, William, Charles, Etta. Evans, James W., deceased, Lincoln twp., farmer, Sec. 5; was born in Putnam county, Indiana in 1838; came to this county in 1855; he owned 370 acres of land; he married Miss Catherine J. Vancie in 1858; she was born in Perry county, Illinois, and died in 1873; Mr. Evans died in 1874 and left three children: Sylvester E., Thomas L. and Sarah E. Farris, John H., Union twp., farmer, Sec. 10; P.O. Winterset; was born in Illinois in 1839; his father moved to Missouri while he was young, and came to this county in April, 1851; owns 260 acres of land; he has held various township offices; he married Miss Dorindo Sturman in October, 1860; she was a native of Ohio; has three children: Henderson E., Lillian and Mary. Fenimore, William, Scott twp., farmer, Sec. 26; P.O. Winterset; born in Wayne county, Indiana, January 11, 1834; when he was two years of age, his parents moved to Madison county, Indiana; came to this county in the fall of 1854, and located in this township; he moved to his present farm in 1866; has 715 acres of land under cultivation, and 158 acres of timber; deals quite largely in stock; he married Martha Ogburn in 1854; she was a native of Indiana; she died in 1875, leaving six sons and two daughters; they lost two daughters: New, Fanny J., deceased, Anson, Minerva E., deceased, Anderson, Rhoda A., Willard, Joseph, Elmer and Lillie E; he married again to Louise Ellis, September 13, 1877; she is a native of Ohio; they have one daughter: Rhoda Bell. Fett, F. J., Penn twp., Sec 19; P.O. Dexter; owns 140 acres of land; Mr. Fett was born in Germany in 1849; came to America in 1855; came to Madison county in 1871; married in 1874 to Mary Arnold, of Ohio; has three children living; Mr. Fett has a good farm upon which he has made all his own improvements. Fett, Philip, Penn twp., farmer, Sec. 19; P.O. Dexter; born in Germany in 1816; has a family of nine children living: Mr. Fett first settled in Ohio where he followed farming until he came to Madison county in 1875; he is now married to his second wife whose name was Mary Snyder before marriage; owns 160 acres of land; is a member of the Lutheran church. Fife, Amos, South twp., farmer, Sec. 10; P.O. Winterset; born in Columbiana county, Ohio, December 5, 1826; he lived there until he was about eighteen years of age, he then enlisted in the Mexican war; enlisted at Chillicothe and served eleven months; he came to this county in December, 1849; in 1852 he married Lucy A. Smith, a native of Scott county, Illinois; she was raised in Iowa; has a family of three sons and seven daughters: George, Sarah E., Rebecca, Alice, Ella, Albert, Cora, Lodena H., Cassius C. and Iosa; owns a farm of 242 acres. Finney, Nelson, Winterset, coal and wood dealer; born in Franklin county, N.Y., March 20, 1821; when ten years of age, his parents removed to Knox county, Ohio; at the age of fifteen, he commenced to learn the boot and shoe manufacturing business, and continued in it until 1853, when he removed to Adams county, Iowa, and engaged in farming; he was one of the early settlers of the county and was closely identified with its interests and held various township offices; he married Miss Matilda Bowersmith in September, 1842; she was born in Licking county, Ohio; their family consists of ten children: Ruhamah, now Mrs. Levi Tyron, living in Furnas county, Nebraska, Diadama, now Mrs. Wesley Prather, residents of Nebraska (Mr. Prather was a captain in the Twenty-third Iowa Infantry during the late war), Alonzo and Lorenzo (twins), Christiana, now Mrs. William Wilson, of Adair county, Elocia Josephine, now Mrs. James Killam, of this county, Sarah, now Mrs. Madison Hall, of Washington county, John W., Electa and Benjamin Franklin; lost one daughter: Melissa Fisher, Edward S., Jefferson twp., farmer, Sec. 4; P.O. Van Meter; owns 105 acres of land; born in Park county, Indiana in 1850; came to Iowa in 1855; he married Miss Mary E. Noe in 1870; has two children living; Letta and Blanche. Fisher, George Sr., Jefferson twp., farmer, Sec. 4; P.O. Van Meter; owns 10 acres of land; born in Brown county, Ohio, in 1807; came to Iowa in 1855 and settled where he now lives; he married in 1827, Miss Sarah Mears, of Ohio; has six children living, as follows: David, Lavocia, Elizabeth, George, Mary J. and Edward S.; Mr. Fisher is one of Jefferson's prominent men and earliest settlers; he has built a fine house and is surrounding in his declining years by his sons, several of whom live near him; has held various offices of trust in the township. Fleming, William, Penn twp., farmer, Sec. 11; P.O. Earlham; owns half a section of land; born in Dark county, Ohio, in 1833; came to Iowa in 1859; was married the same year to Miss D. Kilborun of Ohio; has five children living: Emma, Aaron P. E., Jennie, Marion and Nellie; has held various offices of trust in the township; has a beautiful place, with good improvements; the house cost over $1,500; a member of the Presbyterian church. Folwell, Samuel, Jefferson twp., farmer, Sec. 34; P.O. Winterset; born in Washington county, Pa., November 22, 1811; when seven years of age his parents moved to Holmes county, Ohio, and he was raised there; he married Miss Margaret Bryerly, a native of Westmoreland county, Pa., August 22, 1832; in 1850 they came to Iowa and located where he now lives; owns 160 acres of land; has two sons and one daughter: Elizabeth, now Mrs. Henry Moore, William B. and John T.; lost one son: James D., who died of disease contracted in the army; he belonged to Co B., Fifteenth Iowa infantry, and died at Benton Barracks; Mrs. Folwell died December 27, 1852; has lost three daughters: Rachel, Margaret J. and Rebecca E. Folwell, Thomas W., Crawford twp., farmer, Sec. 20; P.O. Patterson; born in Wayne (what is now Holmes) county, Ohio, May 10, 1817, and was raised there; February 15, 1843, he married Miss Hannah Pyers; in the fall of 1851, they came to this county and located in Winterset, where he lived four and a half years, working at the shoemaker's trade; Mr. Folwell started the first shoe shop in Winterset; he then moved to his present home; while in Winterset, he drove to Keokuk with a team, for a load of lumber; they came from Ohio here in a wagon, and were twenty-eight days on the road; he owns a farm of 152 acres of land; has a family of one son and four daughters: Mary E., Luzanna, Sarah R., Warren A. and Minnie; lost one son and one daughter, John M., who died while in the army while a member of the Fifteenth Iowa infantry, and Martha V. Ford, Wesley T., Penn twp., farmer, Sec. 24; P.O. Earlham; owns 1, 685 acres of land; born in 1829, in Chenango county, New York; married in 1856; has five children living: Charles K., Line, Ida, Mertie and Florence. Forney, Linder James (Dr.), Winterset; born in Guernsey county, Ohio, in 1841; came to this county in 1863, and engaged in teaching and farming; he has taught thirteen terms of school in Madison county; he commenced the study of medicine with Dr. A. B. Smith as preceptor, and graduated at the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Keokuk, and is also a graduate of the Ohio Medical College, Cincinnati, and of the Rush Medical College, Chicago; he married Miss Eliza Stiles in 1869; she was born in Putnam county, Indiana; has three children: Frank F., Joseph W. and Brady M. Foster, David F., Monroe twp., farmer and nurseryman, Sec. 1; P.O. Winterset; was born in Tuscarawas Co., Ohio in 1847, and came to this county in 1855; owns forty acres of land; he is associated with his brother, J. C. Foster, as proprietors of the Madison County Nursery; has held office of school director; he married Miss Jennie freely in 1874; she was born in Iowa; has one child: Emory Foster, George K., Monroe twp., farmer and bridge builder, Sec. 1; P.O. Winterset; born in Ohio in 1831; in 1854 he emigrated to California, where he remained several years, and came to this county in 1865; owns 195 acres of land; married Miss S. C. Ward in 1871; she was born in Ohio; has three children: Iver W., Oscar W. and Melvin R. Foster, John C., Monroe twp., Sec. 36; P.O. Winterset; was born in Tuscarawas Co., Ohio, in 1835, and came to this county in 1855; owns 150 acres of land, and with his brother, D. F. Foster, are devoting their time largely to the nursery business; he has served as school director; he married Miss Harriet Lake in 1857; she was born in Ohio; has seven children: George A., Ashford L., Minnie, Heber, Emma, John Denton, Darwin; lost one daughter: Etta. Foster, Nathaniel, Walnut twp., farmer, Sec. 6; P.O. Winterset; was born in Tuscarawas county, Ohio, December 2, 1822; he came to this county in 1854, and located where he now lives; he married Miss Margaret Ramsey January 10, 1850, a native of Ross county, Ohio; they have four sons and one daughter: Lemuel A., Albert F., George H., Lafayette M. and Mary A.; he owns 416 acres of land; his wife died in 1862; he married again to Mary C. Creger, widow of James Creger, May 4, 1864; her maiden name was Collier, a native of Tennessee; has four daughters: Ida J., Ada M., Laverna V. and Cora. Mrs. F. has one son by her former marriage: J. M. E. (Elsworth) Creger. Foster, Robert J., Ohio twp., farmer, Sec. 12; P.O. St. Charles; born in Tuscarawas county, Ohio, March 14, 1828, and was raised there; he married Miss Barbara E. Arnold, a native of the same county, April 25, 1852; she was born August 22, 1830; came to Iowa in the fall of 1853, and to this county in the spring of 1855; has lived on his present farm since the fall of 1855; owns 240 acres of land, sixteen of which are timber; has a family of two daughters: Mary J., now Mrs. Albert B. Johnson, and Peree B.; was in the late war, in company F, Thirty-ninth Iowa; he enlisted in August, 1862 and was discharged February 17, 1863, on account of disability; was in the battle of Parker's Cross Roads. Foster / Fosher, Samuel, Lincoln twp., farmer, Sec. 4; P.O. Winterset; was born in Indiana in 1847, and came to this county in 1868; he married Miss Jennie Hills in 1871; she was born in Illinois; has three children: Alice, Willie and John; his father, Christian Fosher, died December 21, 1878; he left a widow and only one son, the subject of this sketch, and an estate of 820 acres of land (I have listed this bio as Foster, Samuel because that is how it is spelled in the book, however within the bio is the name of his father Christian Fosher, so don't know if it is supposed to be Fosher or Foster.) Fox, John, Winterset, ticket agent; born in Stevenson county, Illinois, October 9, 1846; he came to this State in 1868; he enlisted in the 8th Illinois Cav. During the late was, and served three years; he has been in the employ of the R. I. & P. R.R., and on this division of the road eleven years; he married Miss S. Taylor, October 5, 1871; she was born in Montgomery county, Maryland; has three children: Elizabeth F., Margaret R. and Eugene E. Fox, John Gano, Jackson twp., farmer, Sec. 24; P.O. Middle River; born in Hamilton county, New Jersey in 1834, and lived there until 1856, when he came to this county; was married in 1857 to Henrietta Ulory, of this county, by whom he has three children: Luther, John and Simon; in 1865, Mr. Fox was left a widower, and has from that time managed his farm of 180 acres, and with the aid of the oldest child, he has managed both the household and the farm. Francis, Daniel, Penn twp., farmer, Sec. 21; P.O. Earlham; born in Dark county, Ohio, December 5, 1826; married March 10, 1850, to Emily Edington, a native of that county; to them have been born four children, two sons and two daughters, all deceased; three dying in one week with that fatal disease, diphtheria, they emigrated to Iowa, locating in Penn township, Madison county, May 22, 1855, being the first settlers in the township; the first election was held in the old log house now owned by the subject of this sketch; he being elected justice of the peace, and was continued in office two years; served a county supervisor five years, and has assessed the township fifteen times; Mr. Francis and wife had but little of this world's goods, but of the patient enduring grace of the Father, their stock was ample; hard times set in two years after they settled here; the winters were extremely cold; wood scarce and to be hauled a long way, so that to keep the wolf (both literally and figuratively) away from the door required all the energy, economy and preference of which they were master; neighbors came in very slowly until the locating of the railroad in 1867, then the country settled very rapidly; the township was organized; the first school-house erected in 1858, is still standing near Pilot Grove, district, number two; the first school was taught by Mrs. Williams; the township has now nine schools, costing about three thousand dollars annually; here again is vividly called to mind the vast progress of our age, converting in the space of a quarter of a century, "Eldorado" of the west; "all honor to the industrial hero." Mr. Francis has a large and well cultivated farm of some 500 acres, a magnificent home, and good out buildings surrounding it; by his uprightness of conduct, his strict integrity, and the nobility of his character, he has won the esteem of all who know him; as many tokens of their regard fully testify. During this, the summer of 1879, he was unanimously nominated by the Republican convention, at Winterset, as their candidate for the Legislature. Gabbert, Jacob, Madison twp., Sec. 13; P.O. DeSoto; born in Clinton county, Kentucky, in 1819; came to Iowa in the spring of 1842; was married to Miss Mary Bonine; has eleven children; when Mr. Gabbort came to Iowa, he had but $30.00 in cash; he has by industry and good management acquired a good farm, which is free from debt. Gabbert, Michael, Madison twp., Sec. 15; P.O. Earlham; born in Tennessee in 1822; in 1836, Mr. Gabbort Came to Iowa, near Davenport, to what was then known as the Black Hawk purchase; came to this county in 1854, and settled on the place now owned by Mr. Kendig; he was married in 1851 to Miss Mary M. Nicholson, of Indiana; has six children living: L. Jane, George W., Rosianna L., David L., Ruth A. and Olive C.; Mr. Gabbort is one of the pioneer men of Iowa, and was personally acquainted with the Indian chiefs, Keokuk and Black Hawk. Garlinger, Thomas, Union twp., farmer and stock-dealer, Sec. 16; P.O. Winterset; was born in Pennsylvania in 1815, and was raised on a farm until his nineteenth year; he then learned the carriage-making trade in Franklin county, Pennsylvania, and served an apprenticeship of five years and ten months; in 1840 he removed to Ohio and worked at his trade twelve years, and in 1855 came to this county and settled in Union township; when he located here had only $62.50, and after buying a stove and other necessaries, he had only $1.50 left; he commenced teaming between this city and Keokuk, a distance of two hundred miles, and he never let the weather interfere in making his trips, which occupied six-teen days, and so profit was he and reliable that his patrons paid him fifty cents per hundred pounds more that others, because they could rely on his making the trip in this time; he then engaged in farming and stock dealing, in which he has done a large business and is the only man who has been able to continue it as a business for the past ten years; he married Miss R. Yeagley in 1841; she was born in Ohio; they have three children: Joseph, William and John. Garrett, Walter B., Walnut twp., farmer, Sec. 36; P.O. Ohio (twp.); born in Fayette county, Ohio, November 22, 1821; was raised there; he married Miss Matilda A. Fishback in 1848; she was born in Madison county, Virginia; they came to this county in the fall of 1865; has lived on his present farm since 1867; owns 320 acres of land; has a family of eight sons and four daughters: Charles W., J. W., T. E., Martha R., D. H., Alwilda N., R. E., Sarah M., George H., Clara E., Robert E. and Harry L. Gaskill, Charles A., Winterset, raiser of fine horses: born in New Jersey in 1832, and removed with his parents to Ohio in 1835; he learned the trade of tailor, and after coming to this county in 1852 followed that business for three years; he then entered Wesleyan University, at Mt. Pleasant, intending to prepare himself for the bar, but, owing to an affection of eyes, was compelled to abandon it after reading two years; in 1860 he went to Denver and engaged in dealing in real estate, and on his return to this county engaged in the same business; he owns 40 acres within city limits, 320 acres in Clay county, 160 acres in Kansas and 80 acres in Indiana; of late years he has been turning his attention to the raising of fine road horses, and owns the noted horse, Panic; his stock of horses are noted for their speed, all of them, without exception, being fast, and they are held in such repute that they bring the highest price in the market. Gentry, Frank M. Union twp., farmer, Sec. 14; P.O. Winterset; born in Putnam county, Indiana in 1839, and came to this county in 1846; owns 80 acres of land; has held offices of town trustee and school director; he married Miss Nancy Shafer, May 28, 1863; she was born in Indiana; has seven children: Joseph L., William E., Francis A., James H., Edward L. V., Sarah E. and Theodore M. Gentry, William W., Union twp., farmer, Sec. 23; P.O. Winterset; born in Indiana in 1841, and came to this county in 1847; his father being one of the commissioners to locate the county-seat; he owns 80 acres of land and holds the office of town trustee; he married Miss E. J. Acheson in June 1864; she was born in Ohio; has seven children: Eliza M., John, Byron, Sarah J., Belle, Frank and Alexander. Gilleran, Martin M., Lee twp., farmer, Sec. 2; P.O. Commerce; was born in Ireland in 1839 and emigrated to this country with his parents in 1849 and settled in Madison county May 4, 1854; he owns a farm of 80 acres; he has held offices of assessor and school director; married Miss Mary Ragan in 1866; she was a native of Ireland; the names of their children are: Ellen, John, Mary, Kate, Martin and Dominick. Gillespie, James, Crawford twp., farmer, Sec. 15; P.O. Patterson; born in the county of Londonderry in Ireland, in the year 1830, and lived there until 1852 when he emigrated to New York and lived there until 1856; was gardener while there; came to this county in 1856; a short time before he started he married Miss Ann Keirman, a native of Ireland, but raised principally in the State of New York; when he came he was in rather moderate circumstances, but now has a finely improved farm of 280 acres; has a family of four sons and three daughters living: John J., Mary F., Frank, Anna E., Catherine G., James and Thomas; he went into the army in September, 1864, in company A., Sixteenth Iowa, and served till the close of the war; was on Sherman's march to the sea; has held the offices of justice of the peace two terms, township clerk two terms and a member of the school board about sixteen years. Gilpin, Samuel J., Winterset, of the firm of Gilpin & Gilpin, attorneys; was born in Butler county, Ohio, in 1838; removed to Hanover county, Indiana where he was educated; came to this county in 1868, and was admitted to the bar; he enlisted in the 3rd Indiana Cav. During the war, and served until the near the close; he married Mrs. Maria L. Evans December 12, 1873; Mrs. Gilpin has one daughter by a previous marriage: Mary Evans. Gilpin, Thomas C., Winterset, attorney; born in Butler county, Ohio, in 1832; removed to Indiana where he was admitted to the bar. February 9, 1855; came to this State in 1860; August 4, 1861, enlisted in the 3rd Iowa Cav., as a private in Co. E; April 3, 1862, he was commissioned second lieutenant, and was afterward promoted to first lieutenant, and then to captain, and was brevetted major for gallant service at Ebenezer Church, Alabama; April 1, 1865, their division captured about $700,000 belonging to the school fund of the State, but held by the State Bank of Tennessee in trust; these funds were entrusted to the care of Major Gilpin, who took them by wagon train to Dalton, and thence by railroad to Nashville, and turned them over to W. G. Brownlow, who was then governor of the State, and he holds the receipt of the governor and secretary of the State for the same; after he was mustered out of the service at the close of the war, he settled in Winterset, in 1865, and practiced his profession; he was elected county judge in 1868, and held that office one year, when it was abolished; he also held the office of auditor; he married Miss S. F. McBride in 1856; she was born in Rush county, Indiana; has six children: Ellerslie F., Curits N., Grace W., Victor C., Finley W. and Eva M. Goodale, Charles C., Winterset; this gentleman though young in years is fairly to be reckoned one of the leading men of Madison county. His career shows a wide experience of life and is an excellent illustration of what may be won by merit, faithfulness and honesty. He is a man of eastern birth and western training. Senator James G. Blaine remarked when introduced to him in Des Moines, "You come from New England stock," and the distinguished Senator was right although the ordinary observer would fail to see in Mr. Goodale any resemblance to the conventional New Englander. Mr. Goodale was born in Addison county, Vermont, December 27, 1844; when about three years old he was taken to Essex county, New York, where he remained until 1857, when he came to Clayton county, Iowa; his early years in this State were passed on a farm and attending the common schools where nearly all his education was received; in the fall of 1863 he went to Chicago and spent the ensuing winter there as a student in a mercantile college; he returned to Iowa in the spring and in May enlisted in Co. C, of the Third Iowa infantry; Mr. Goodale has enlisted in a veteran regiment which had been terribly torn and decimated; it went again to the front and saw hard service again; Mr. Goodale was with the regiment until July 22, when he was taken prisoner in the battle before Atlanta; he was sent to Andersonville prison and remained two months in the midst of its untold horrors; at the expiration of this time he was transferred to the prison at Florence, South Carolina, where he was kept nearly three months longer; his iron constitution stood the horrors of prison life with great vigor; he was sadly reduced, however, and though his constitution was not broken and he afterward regained his health, yet he has never since had the full vigor of his splendid constitution originally; Mr. Goodale was paroled in Charleston harbor December 6, 1864, and then taken to Annapolis, Maryland, where he was granted a furlough of thirty days; after this length of time spent at home he reported in pursuance of orders at Benton Barracks, in Missouri; here he was detailed as a clerk in the assistant adjutant- general's office, and after a short time was made chief clerk; he was mustered out finally in June, 1865, and returned to his home in Clayton county; Mr. Goodale's war experience lasted but a little over a year, but it was filled with hard service and gave him a thorough understanding of what is meant by the horrors of war; shortly after this - in September, 1865 - Mr. Goodale first came to Madison county; he taught school in the winter and spring the summer in labor on a farm; he continued in this course until the summer of 1868, when he made a trip to California, going by water from New York by way of the Isthmus of Panama; the summer he spent in California looking for an opening convinced him that Iowa was the best State in the Union, and Madison, one of the best counties; he accordingly return in the fall and has ever since lived in this county; in 1870 he was married to Miss Sarah J. McMannus, of Clarke county; their family consists of four children: Emma, Willie, Eva and Nellie; he was engaged as a farmer until 1873, when he was elected county auditor, and by successive re-elections has held the office up to the present time; Mr. Goodale is a very popular official and has received the largest majority ever given a candidate in Madison county; in 1875 he ran more than 500 votes ahead of his party majority; this rare popularity has been fairly and honestly won; Mr. Goodale is a thorough gentleman in manner, and treats all persons with a genial and unaffected courtesy; this added to his ability and faithful performance of duty have gained him the general esteem; in 1787 Mr. Goodale purchased a half interest in the Winterset Madisonian , of which paper he is now one of the editors and proprietors; Mr. Goodale's early education advantages were only those afforded by the public schools, but he improved them thoroughly; he has since been an industrious student and is now a widely-read and thoroughly informed man; he is a public speaker of fine ability; Madison county may well be proud of Mr. Goodale and his achievements, but his future career will be enacted on a wider stage than any one county can offer. Goodson, William N., farmer, Sec. 2; P.O. Van Meter; born in Washington county, Indiana in 1836, where his early boyhood was spent; early in 1847 his father, M. J. C. Goodson, came to Boone township, Dallas county, Iowa, where he still resides, a respected citizen; Mr. Goodson spent his youth and early manhood with his father, and was married in that county December 24, 1859, to Miss Martha A. Clayton, a native of Indiana; by this union they have two children living: Era F. and William E.; have lost four: Elmer, died March 6, 1878, Ezra F., Sarah P., died December 28, 1878; Thomas J., their eldest son, was drowned in 'Coon river, July 21, 1879, while bathing in company with two uncles and others, he undertook to swim across the river and when about midway became frightened and sank; every effort possible was made to rescue him, but without avail; Mr. Goodson located where he now resides in 1861, cultivating a fine farm of 250 acres, well adapted for grain and stock-raising; has good improvements and owns a fine timber lot and stone quarry. Goshorn, John Stuart, Douglas twp., insurance agent, Sec. 35; P.O. Winterset; born in Pennsylvania, May 25, 1830; he came to this State in 1852, and to this county in 1856; he owns forty acres of land; he enlisted in the Fourth Iowa infantry, and served as second lieutenant of company F; after serving ten months, he was honorably discharged; he again enlisted in the Forty-seventh Iowa infantry, and was commissioned captain of company E; he has held the office of county superintendent of schools; he is connected with the Framers' Insurance company of Cedar Rapids, as special agent and adjuster for the western portion of the State; he married Miss Hattie Jane Stiffler, in 1854; she was born in Pennsylvania; has four children: Robert M., Arthur L., Laura and Nellie G. Graham, Calvin C., farmer, Sec. 6; P.O. Dexter; owns eighty acres of land; was born in Adams county, Ohio, in 1826; came to Illinois and stayed nineteen years, and then came to Iowa in 1873; was married in 1854 to Miss M. J. Bell of Ohio; has five children living, Mr. Graham has made all his own improvements; has two daughters teaching school; Mr. Graham is a carpenter by trade, has worked at it for twenty- two years. Graham, John W., Winterset, real estate loan agent and abstracter; born in Delaware county, New York, in 1835; he came to this county in 1856; owns 160 acres of land; he has held the offices of assessor and county recorder; he enlisted in the 1st Iowa Cav. In the late war and served three years and three months; he married Miss Mary A. Gould in 1869; she was born in Ohio; has two children: Mary and Clarence. Grandfield, John C., Grand River twp., farmer, Sec. 33; P.O. Macksburg; was born in England in 1834 and came to the United States in 1855, and to this county in 1856; owns 160 acres of land; has held office of school director; he married Miss Elizabeth Cross in 1855; she was born in England; has eight children living: Alice E., Rosa M., Addie L., Jos. M., John W., Oscar M., Oliver A. and Fred W.; lost one son: Fred Gregory, John Wesley, Walnut twp., farmer, Sec. 5; P.O. Peru; was born in Morgan county, Indiana, July 15, 1831; came with his parents to Louisa county, Iowa, in 1837; he married Miss Debbie A. J. Quinn, April 3, 1861; she was born in Pickaway county, Ohio; they have five sons and two daughters: Alwilda, James D., Ellis, Elmine, Sherman, Francis and Wesley M.; they came to this county in 1866 and located where they now live; has a farm of 104 acres. Guiberson, Nathaniel Warner, farmer and stock-raiser, Sec. 17; P.O. Winterset; born in Holmes county, Ohio, in 1823, and in 1850 he moved from the house in which he was born and came to Madison county, Iowa; he owns 314 acres of land; has held offices of town trustee, school director, justice of the peace and township clerk; he married Miss Sarah Bird in 1844; she was born in Holmes county, Ohio; has ten children: William B., John I., Leander R., Sylvester E., James H., Colonel H., Charles E., Byron F., Austin D. and Ray; lost three: Martha e., Australia and Frances D. Guiberson, William B., Union twp., farmer and grain dealer, Sec. 16; born in Holmes county, Ohio, April 1, 1844, and came to this county in 1850; owns forty acres of land, where he now resides; is engaged in buying grain; he married Miss A. M. Pursel in 1866; she was born in Indiana, and came with her parents to this county at an early day; has four children: Carver P., George F., Neva and Tom. Guiberson, William P., Winterset, confectioner; born in Winterset in 1853, his father I. D. Guiberson, being one of the early settlers of the county. Guthrie, William J., Walnut twp., farmer, Sec. 34; P.O. Ohio (twp.); born in Campbell county, Virginia, August 25, 1818; he was raised in Madison county, Ohio; he married Miss Margaret Turner, of Green county, Ohio, February 13, 1845; in 1849 he came to Iowa and wintered in Mahaska county, and came here the following spring; he took up a claim and entered 200 acres, where he now lives; they have two sons and one daughter: John W., Thomas A. and Margaret L. Guye, George W., Union twp., farmer, Sec. 24; P.O. Winterset; born in White county, Tennessee, in 1826; moved with his parents to Indiana in 1828, and emigrated to Missouri in 1841, and came to this place May 3, 1846, and entered the first land in Madison county; has held township offices; he married Miss L. Harris September 2, 1849; she was born in Luke county, Ohio; has five children: James M., Mary, Sarah, Elva M. and Charles L. Guye, James W., Union twp., farmer, Sec. 18; P.O. Winterset; born in Tennessee, September, 1824; his father removed to Indiana in 1828, and lived in that State until 1841, and then emigrated to Missouri, and came to this county May 3, 1846, and are without doubt among the very first settlers of the county; he owns 120 acres of land; has held various township offices, and is at the present time one of the town trustees; he married Miss S. Smith in June, 1850; she was born in Indiana; has five children: Vernesa J., Benjamin L., Samuel H., Calvin W. and Levi H. Hallgarth, David, farmer, Lincoln twp., Sec. 16; P.O. Winterset; was born in Indiana, June 17, 1823; he was raised a farmer and came to this county in 1850; he owns 60 acres of land; he enlisted in company F, 39th Iowa Infantry, and served three years; he married Miss Nancy Bonty, who was born in Indiana; they have three children: Francis A., Martha E. and Sarah E. Hamblin, Mrs. Eleanor, Monroe twp., farmer, Sec. 18; P.O. Kasson; was born in Cumberland Co., Pa., in 1817; she was married to Simeon Hamblin in 1839; he was born in Grand Isle Lake Champlain, May 30, 1815; he removed to Ohio in 1831, and came to this county in 1854, and was one of the early settlers of the township, and prominent in all the interests of the township; held various township offices; he died January 10, 1874; he left seven children: John, Elizabeth, Josephus, Seth, Mattie, Robert F., Hannah; one son, Christopher C., enlisted in the army and died from disease, caused by exposure, at Black River Bridge, Miss.; Mr. Hamblin at the time of his death owned 200 acres of land, and Mrs. Hamblin has since purchased forty acres more. Hampton, George W., Winterset, grain dealer; born in Lexington, Kentucky, in 1840; during the war he was superintendent of river transportation at Nashville; came to this county in 1872; he married Miss Georgia English in 1866; she was born in Westport, Kentucky; has two children: Henry E. and Garnet. Harris, Henry, Douglas twp., Sec 24; P.O. Winterset; born in Berkshire county, Massachusetts, March 21, 1827; he lived some years in New York, and came to this county in march, 1865; owns 201 ½ acres of land; he married Miss Betsey Harris, in 1852; she was born in New York; has three children: Flora Etta, Amy B. and Lizzie M. Harrison, Ira David, Grand River twp., farmer, Sec. 31; P.O. Macksburg; was born in Illinois in 1843, and removed to Iowa in 1866, and settled in Muscatine county, where he remained two years, and came to this county in 1868; owns 128 acres of land; has held office of town trustee and school director; he enlisted in the 139th Illinois Infantry in the late was; he married Miss Ella D. Davis in 1865; she was born in Massachusetts; has three children: Allie R. (Ruth), Mary E. (Emma) and John G. (Guy). Hartman, James D., Ohio twp., farmer, Sec. 21; P.O. Prairie Grove; born in Roanoke county, Virginia, February 26, 1818; was raised there and lived there until he was about twenty-one years of age; he then went to Putnam county, Indiana; while there he married Miss Annie Stultz, February 9, 1843; she was a native of Stokes county, North Carolina; she was born June 16, 1819; in 1855 they came to this county by wagon and were about four weeks on the road; has lived on his present farm since 1857; has a farm of 263 acres; they have one son and four daughters: Mary J., now Mrs. F. (Fenton) L. Delong, Lucy A., now Mrs. G. (George) W. Franks, Armanda, now Mrs. Robert Caskey, James B. and Emma C. Hartman, John, South twp., farmer, Sec. 14; P.O. St. Charles; son of Mary and George Hartman, early settlers of this county; he was born in Hendricks county, Indiana, January 31, 1840; came to Iowa in 1851, and to this county in the spring of 1852, and located where he now lives; his father died in 1873; his mother is living with him still; he married Catherine Shaver in 1858; she died in 1860; he married again to Lucinda C. Starr, in March 1865, a native of Jasper county, Iowa; has three daughters living: Ella J., Minnie L. and Mary L.; lost two sons: Frank and Eugene; he and his mother own 411 acres of land. Haskin, I. G., Winterset, lumber dealer; born in New York in 1828; came to this state in 1859, and settled in this county in 1873; owns 800 acres of land; he married Miss Anna Walker in July, 1855; she was born in New Hampshire, August 6, 1832; has two children: Carrie A., wife of C. D. Howell, and Frank W. Haxton, Oliver Perry, see Hoxton. Hazen, Daniel, Jefferson twp., farmer, Sec. 27; P.O. Van Meter; born in Grand Isle county, Vermont, in 1823; he lived there until nineteen years of age; he then went to Franklin county, New York; at the age of twenty-two (1845) he came west; his mother gave him twenty dollars, and when he landed in Clayton county, Iowa, in July 1845, he had just twenty-five cents in money; he worked as a day laborer, and received from twelve to twenty dollars per month for his services; in 1855 he married Miss Mary L. Eggleston, a native of St. Lawrence county, New Your; they were married at Prairie du Chine, Wisconsin; in 1865 they removed to this county and located where they now live; he owns a farm of 400 acres, well improved and under high cultivation; they have two sons: Burt C. and Carl L. Heaton, William, Lee twp., farmer, Sec. 27; P.O. Boonville; was born in Green county, Pennsylvania, in July 1815; he was raised there and afterward removed to Illinois and owns a find farm there at the present time of 450 acres in a high state of cultivation; he came to this county in 1871 and purchased a large tract of land, and still owns about 1,000 acres; he married Miss M. Hedge in 1839; she was born in Pennsylvania; has eight children: Daniel, James P., Abagail, Morgan, Margaret J., Abner, Jester and marry Ann. Hedge, William, Winterset, of the firm of Hedge, Dickey & Co., dealer in agricultural implements; born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, in 1838; came to this State in 1876; he enlisted in the 22nd Pennsylvania Cav. In the late war; he was the president of the Madison county agricultural society; he married Miss M. A. Cutler in 1873; she was born in Ohio. Henderson, Daniel, Jackson twp., farmer, Sec. 13; P.O. Winterset; born in Butler county, Ohio, in 1829; resided there until 1851, then moved to Marion county, Indiana, thence to Madison county, Iowa, 1853, locating where he now resides; married in Darke county, Ohio, in the year 1851, to Nancy Swaford, she being a native of Indiana; by this union has five children, four sons and one daughter: Eli, Francis M. (Monroe), Canada W., Minerva C. (Clarissa) and Nathan; has a fine farm of 220 acres, well adapted to stock and grain raising; surrounding his residence is on of the finest artificial groves in the State, bordered by a large, well bearing orchard; when Mr. Henderson located here, there were but tow families living in the township, consequently, he has been identified with the growth and development of this part of Madison county, from its original state of wilderness; he was obliged in early times to go to Des Moines for lumber, and has even gone as far as Rock Island when pine lumber was needed; endured all the privations of an early settler. Henkle, John, Scott twp., farmer, Sec. 11; P.O. Winterset; born in Campbell county, Virginia, August 30, 1819; when seven years of age, his parents removed to East Tennessee, where they live two years, and then emigrated to Putman county, Indiana, in 1828; while there he learned the trade of tanner and currier, which business he followed until his coming to Iowa; he married Joan Bondurant February 24, 1842; she died April 30, 1850; she left two children: Joseph resides in Deadwood, and Elizabeth, now Mrs. Peter Lynch; he married again to Susanna Guilliams in November, 1853; they emigrated to this county June 8, 1855, and located where he now lives; came in wagon and was on month on the road; his wife died the following July; left one daughter: Surilda, now Mars. James Goff, living in Putnam county, Indiana; he married again to his present wife in July 1858; her maiden name was Mary M. Moser, a native of Ohio; they have three daughters: Joanna, Katura Andromeda and Minnie F.; owns 160 acres of land. Hennen, Ebenezer Voshel, Penn twp., farmer, Sec. 13; P.O. Earlham; owns eighty acres of land; born in 1838, in Clinton county, Ohio; came to Iowa in 1865; was married in 1862 to Annie James of New York; has three children: Mina A., Luzerna J. and George F.; has held various offices of trust in the township; is a member of M. E. church. Herr, John, Grand River twp., farmer and stock-raiser, Sec. 18; P.O. Macksburg; was born in Montgomery county, Ohio in 1836, and emigrated to Cedar county, Iowa in 1857, and came to this county in January, 1869; owns 240 acres of land; he was associated with J. D. Love for two years in general merchandise; he married Miss McVay (Mary Elma) in 1860; she was born in Ohio; has four children: Frank B., Maria, Anna E. and Hattie. Hewit, Elizabeth, Mrs., farmer, Sec. 36; P.O. McPherson; born in Marion county, Indiana; she married Robert Hewit April 7, 1851; he was born in Marion county, Ohio, February 22, 1814, and from Ohio moved to Knox county, Illinois, where he remained until his removal to this county in 1866; Mr. Hewit died May 2, 1878. Hiatt, Aaron, Walnut twp., farmer, Sec. 3; P.O. Peru; was born in Wayne county, Indiana, and lived there until ten years old; his parents then removed to Randolph county, where they lived two years, and then went to Grant county, Indiana; he married Miss Lucinda Roberts, a native of Clinton county, Ohio, September 1, 1836; she died January 5, 1847, leaving four sons and two daughters, of whom, two sons and two daughters are now living: Mary A., now Mrs. Brown; Evaline, now Mrs. Hollingsworth; Sylvanus was wounded at the battle of Pea Ridge, and soon afterward died; Elam, Stephen S. and Robert, deceased; he married Sarah Tillson, August 17, 1849, a native of Dark county, Ohio; they came to this county October 10, 1851; they have three children: Lanti, now Mrs. Baker, Arthur W. and Leslie P.; owns 208 acres of land; when they came to this county they located where they now live. Hiatt, Elwood, Ohio twp, farmer, Sec 20; P.O. Ohio (twp.); born in Clinton county, Ohio, October 30, 1825; came to this State in 1865, and settled in Mahaska county where he lived one year; he then came to this county and located where he now lives; owns 200 acres of land; he married Miss Mary B. Moorman, December 3, 1846; she is a native of Greene county, Ohio; they have five sons and one daughter: Edgar, Rosa, Frank, Thomas, Christopher C. and Newton. Hiatt, Jesse, Scott twp., farmer and stock raiser, Sec. 35; P.O. Peru; born in Wayne county, Indiana, February 19, 1826; his parents moved from there when he was very young to Grant county; was raised there; he married Rebecca J. Pearson November 18, 1848; they emigrated to this county in 1855, and located where he now lives; they came by wagon and were twenty-one days on the road; owns 419 acres of land; they have five sons and five daughters: Sylvester P., Sarah E., Joseph N., Matilda B. and Malinda D. are twins, Noah W., William L., Tena Violet, Serena J. and Sylvanus L. Hiatt, Shubel Coffin, Lee Twp., farmer, Sec. 17; P.O. Boonville; was born in North Carolina in 1835, and when young his parents removed to Indiana, where he was raised on a farm; he came to this State in 1859; he owns a farm of 80 acres of land; he married Miss Maria Sylvester in 1864; she was born in Indiana; they have four children: Josephine, John A., Jerome and Sylvester. Hilbery, John, Grand River twp., farmer, Sec. 10; P.O. Macksburg; was born in Indiana county, Pennsylvania in 1833, and emigrated to Illinois in 1855, and settled in Mercer county; he removed to this county in 1868; he is a carpenter by trade and for many years followed that occupation; he owns 240 acres of land; has held various township offices; he married Miss Julia A. Arasmith in 1861; she was born in Illinois; has three children: James G. Sabina and Henry C. Hillman, Edmund, Walnut twp., of the firm of E. & J. D. Hillman; was born in Gloucester county, New Jersey, near Camden, June 1818; his parents move to Preble county, Ohio, when he was quite young; he was raised there; he married Miss Anna Donnelly in 1839, a native of Pennsylvania; in the fall of 1841, he emigrated to Des Moines county, Iowa; came to this county in the fall of 1869; has been engaged in the mercantile business at Peru seven years; has two sons and one daughter: John D., on of the firm, Mary E., now Mrs. S. N. (Sylvester Newton) Travis, and Z. T. (Zachary Taylor) Hindman, Samuel Nelson, Jackson twp., farmer, Sec. 8; P.O. Dexter; born in Monroe county, Ohio, in 1844, and raised there; in May, 1864, he enlisted in the 136th Ohio Nation Guards (100 days), and upon being discharged enlisted again in the 174th Ohio Infantry, remaining with that regiment until the close of the war; returning home he engaged in farming, and moved to this county in 1867; was married in Jackson township, in 1869, to M. A. (Margaret) Shuck; has two sons and two daughters by this union: A. D. (Albert), M. H. (Marion Harvey), Eva L. and Bertha B. (Blanche); owns a fine farm of 240 acres of well cultivated land. Hindman, Thomas, Jackson twp., Sec. 16; P.O. Winterset; born in Pennsylvania in 1817; living in that State until 1867, when he removed to where he now resides; was married in ---- county, Ohio, in 1843 to Jane McClarren, who died December 10, 1852; he married again Elizabeth Short, of ----- county, Ohio, in ---- 1853, and was again left companionless, June 19, 1862; again he was married to Mary Ann Nelson, September, 1863, a native of Carroll county, Indiana; Mr. H. has five children, four sons and one daughter: Samuel N. (Nelson), Robert M. (McClarren), John C. (Calvin), Thomas J. (Jefferson) and Sarah Jane, now Mrs. (E.M.) Marshall of this county; owns 230 acres of choice land; while engaged in gathering items for this history, the writer has frequently heard kind words of gratitude expressed for the many acts of kindness and generosity that has endeared the subject of this sketch to the inhabitants of Jackson township and vicinity. Hogg, George W., Walnut twp., farmer, Sec. 1; P.O. Peru; was born in Washington county, Indiana, March 13, 1842; came to this county with his parents when about ten years old; he married Miss Dicy E. Gentry August 2, 1864; she was born in Hendrix county, Indiana, December 16, 1844; they have three sons and two daughters: John W., George M., Dicy J., Linnie M. and Joshua E.; owns 65 acres. Hogle, Isaac Newton, Lincoln twp., farmer, Sec. 10; P.O. Winterset; born in Coshocton county, Ohio, February 21, 1818; afterward removed to Indiana and remained there until he came to this county in 1865; owns 98 ½ acres of land; has held school offices and served as a member of the board of supervisors; he married Miss Barbary Smith in 1843; she was a native of Harrison county, Ohio; has six children: Peter C., Margaret E., William N., Mary M., Sarah B. and Robert E. H.; lost two (children) Leonard W. and Lorenzo Dow. Holderbaum, Henry David, Penn twp., farmer, Sec. 17; P.O. Dexter; born in Holmes country, Ohio, in 1842; owns 320 acres; came to Iowa in 1869; married in 1865 to Miss C. (Christina) Hochstetler, of Ohio; has four children living; Mr. Holderbaum has two very fine stallions, one an English draft and a Norman Canadian, bought of Dr. Westfall, of Malcomb, Illinois; both are beautiful animals. Holdrebaum, Michael S., Penn twp., farmer, Sec. 5; P.O. Dexter: owns 152 acres of land; born in Holmes county, Ohio, in 1848; came to Iowa in 1869; married in 1874 to Miss Rosa Leochner, of Ohio; has three children living: Charles W., Mary R. and Nora L.; Mr. Holderbaum is turning his attention to fine stock, and now owns one of the finest stallions in the county, French Norman, a most happy combination of Draft and speed, is valued at $2,000. Holliday, Samuel L., Winterset, grocer and provisions dealer; born in Indiana in 1840; came to this county in 1854; has held the office of county auditor four years, and served as a member of the city council; he married Miss Ellen Dabney December 31, 1861; she was born in Illinois; has four children: John H. Orin S., Florence M and Nellie. Holmes, Archibald, Ohio twp., farmer, Sec. 22; P.O. St. Charles; born in Tuscarawas county, Ohio, January 6, 1833; came to Iowa and located in Wapello county in 1854; remained there two years, and then came to this county and located where he now lives; has a farm of 120 acres; he married Miss Eliza J. Middleton July 2, 1854; she was a native of Washington county, Pennsylvania; she died March 12, 1869; left five sons and four daughters: A. (Austin) M., Martha E., Elizabeth M., Isaac E., Curtis L., Mary E., Horace H., Florence E. and James W.; he married again to Martha A., widow of George W. Caskey, March 9, 1873; she is a native of Clark county, Ohio; was in the army, in company F, Thirty-ninth Iowa; enlisted in August 1862, and was discharged eight months afterward on account of disability. Holmes, Isaac, Ohio twp., farmer, Sec. 21; P.O. St. Charles; born in Tuscarawas county, Ohio, February 26, 1839; he was raised there till fourteen years of age; he then came to Iowa with his parents and lived three years in Van Buren county, and then came to this county and located in Ohio township; he married Miss Lorinda, daughter of David Bishop, Esq., April 10, 1860; she was born in Des Moines county, Iowa, January 6, 1845; she died October 8, 1872; left a family of two sons and three daughters: Almeda, Nora, Jennie, David F. and William H.; for his second wife he married Mattie Carter December 26, 1876; a native of Guernsey county, Ohio; she was born February 6, 1865 (1853); has one daughter: Anna B.; Mr. H. was justice of the peace six years and township treasurer ten years; he owns a farm of 57 acres. Holmes, John S., Scott twp., farmer, Sec. 22; P.O. Winterset; born in Jackson county, Indiana, March 28, 1821, and was raised there; March 18, 1843, he married Miss Elizabeth Beem; she was born in the same county; in the spring of 1855, they started for Iowa in a wagon, and after being on the road for thirty days they located where they now live, and have been highly respected citizens of this county ever since; owns a well improved farm of 540 acres; they have a family of five sons and five daughters: Roselba, Solomon M., Michael B., Norvilla, Nancy A., Jacob N., Polly O., Elizabeth, John W. and Ellsworth G. Holmes, Solomon M., Scott twp., farmer, Sec. 27; P.O. Winterset; born in Jackson county, Indiana, November 16, 1848; he lived there until he came to this county with his parents in 1855; owns a farm of eighty acres; he married Miss Fanny, Daughter of Thomas Stevens, December 25, 1870; she was born in Henry county, Iowa, but came to this county when quite young; they have one son: Albert M. Honnold, John F., Ohio twp., farmer, Sec. 10; P.O. St. Charles; bon in Belmont county, Ohio, July 21, 1833; came to Marion county, Iowa in 1852, and to this county in 1864; owns a farm of 127 acres; he married Miss Mary Donnell September 21, 1855, a native of Seneca county, Ohio; she was born in 1836; her parents moved to Marion county in 1846; has a family of four sons and three daughters: Millie, Horace C., Nancy, John C., Ezra J., Mary and Frank. Hood, Alfred, Winterset, farmer; born in North Carolina, in 1808; he emigrated to Indiana in 1829; in 1843 he removed to Iowa and settled in Mahaska county, and came to this county in 1856; he owns 42 acres of land; he represented this district in the State legislature in 1861-62, and voted for all the appropriations for the support of the government; he also held the office of coroner three terms and county supervisor for two years; he married Miss M. Gifford in 1832; she was born in New York, and died in February 1869; he married for his second wife Rachel A. McNeil, in Aug. 1869; has four children by first marriage: Sarah, Adeline, James and Daniel; and two by his second marriage: Jessie & Fred Hoover, Israel, Scott twp., farmer, Sec. 34; P.O. Peru; born in Randolph county, North Carolina, November 7, 1824; was bound out for seven years; when about thirteen years of age he went to Shelby county, Indiana; came to this county in 1855, and located in Scott township; has lived on his present farm thirteen years; owns a farm of ninety acres; he married Miss Nancy Pray October 22, 1846; she was born in Shelby county, Indiana, August 3, 1829; has a family of four sons and one daughter: Charles W., Joseph H., Margaret H., Barnabas L. and Edward A. Hornback, Abraham, Winterset, wagon-maker; born in Piqua county, Ohio, April 6, 1802, and in 1825 removed to Ind., and remained there until he came to this county in 1853; he married Miss Patsey Conell in 1822; she was born in Kentucky; has six children: Elizabeth, James, George, Nancy, John, Mary. Houk, Lester G., Winterset; the subject of this sketch, whose portrait appears elsewhere, was born in Wellsburg, Brook county, West Virginia, in 1812; when about eight years of age he removed with his parents to Ohio; four years later his father died; at the age of sixteen, he went to Canton, Ohio, and served five years as an apprentice at the saddler's trade; he then worked as a journeyman for about three years, and afterward engaged in business for himself in Millersburg, Ohio, where he continued to live for about thirteen years; in 1850 he came from Millersburg to Winterset along with a number of others; it will thus be seen he was a member of the noted "Holmes county clique"; he early engaged in real estate operations in Madison and other counties; careful management and judicious investments made him very successful; he was frequently called into official service, he was very popular with the people, and when a candidate the opposing party had to put up its very best candidate in order to have any show of success; he was one of the heroes of the famous tie election, of which a full account has been given in the foregoing pages; he was one of the organizers and stockholders of the Citizens' National Bank, and has been one of its directors since the organization; he has been twice married, the first time to Miss Louisa Sargeant, a native of Ohio, in which State she died in 1842; he afterward married Mrs. Mary C. Wylie, whose maiden name was Campbell; she was born in Virginia; the colonel has one son, Lester C., by this marriage; by his first marriage he had a son, Irvin, whom he lost by death; he is one of the old settlers of Madison county, and can remember nearly all of the period covered by the county's history; he has attained a large measure of success and gained an enviable place in the confidence of its people; consequently he can look back to the past and review his early struggles and hardships with much of that feeling of satisfaction which most men experience only in their hopes for the future; he has probably many years of life before him, but when the end comes, it will close with an honest and worthy record. Houten, John, deceased, Lincoln twp., farmer and minister, Sec. 8; born in Madison county, Kentucky in 1805, and lived there until 1829; he then moved to Indiana and remained there until he came to this county in 1849, although he did not remove his family until 1850; he married Miss Susan Watson in 1827; she was also a native of Madison county, Kentucky, and was born July 4, 1810; Mr. Houten was a preacher of the Baptist faith, and his labors in this direction were attended with great success; he died July 5, 1878, leaving six children: Salina A., John W., Levi F., James, Martin G. and Susan; lost six (children): Thomas J., Sarah, Benjamin, David, William R. and Emily J. Howard, Dexter, Webster twp., farmer, Sec. 9; P.O. Middle River; born in Chatauqua county, New York, in 1822, and emigrated with his parents to Kendall county, Illinois, in 1834, and lived there until his removal to this county I 1853; owns eighty acres of land; he married Elizabeth Moore in 1853; she was born in Virginia; has six children: David (A.), Letitia (T.), Sarah (A.), Denton (Henderson), Martha (Jane) and (Richard) Lafayette. Howell, David, Winterset, blacksmith; born in Ohio in 1834, and came to this county in 1855; he has worked at his trade twenty-seven years; he has held offices of city alderman and town trustee; he enlisted in the 36th Iowa Inf. and served three years; he married Miss M. J. Snavely in 1859; she was born in Pennsylvania; has two children: Herschel V. E. and Charles C.; lost two (children). Hoxton, Oliver Perry, Penn twp., farmer, Sec. 19; P.O. Earlham; owns 548 acres of land; born in Fountain county, Indiana, in 1833; came to Iowa in 1875; married in 1855, Miss E. (Emily) Tracy, of Indiana; has five children: Charles M., Randolph, Ora, Julia and O. P. (Oliver Perry); lives in a good stone house, built from the quarries on his own farm; has held various offices of trust in the county. Hudson, Thomas Jefferson, Winterset, dealer in drugs, medicines, paints, oils, books, stationery and druggists' sundries, one of the firm of Tidrick & Hudson; born in Lawrence county, Indiana, in 1846, and came to this county in 1855; he has been engaged in selling drugs 13 ½ years; he married Miss M. Tidrick in September, 1874; she was born in Winterset; has one son: Fred. Huffman, Sarah (Mrs.), Webster twp., farmer, Sec. 6; P.O. Middle River; born in Washington county, Pennsylvania; in 1865 she married Cyrus T. Huffman, who was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, in 1839; he enlisted in the Twenty-second Pennsylvania cavalry in the late war and served through the rebellion; after his return from the army, and a short residence in his native State, he removed to Licking county, Ohio, and lived there for seven years, and came to this county in 1875; he owned 232 acres of land; he died February 2, 1878; leaving three children surviving: Rena, Frank and Maggie; lost one son: John Hughart, Campbell, Crawford twp., merchant; born in Adair county, Kentucky, December 3, 1812; he was raised there; he married Miss Mary A., daughter of Rev. J. M. Blair, December 17, 1835; she was born in the same county; they came to this county in 1860, and located in Crawford township, and engaged in farming; he has been engaged in the mercantile business four years; his children are: Sarah J., wife of W. T. Cason, Mary E., now Mrs. Shannon, Eliza A., Belzona and William M. Huglin, G. J., Winterset, cigar manufacturer; born in Germany, in 1852, and came to this county in 1867; he commenced the manufacturing of cigars in 1873; he married Miss Caroline Munzenmaurm in 1877; she was born in Des Moines, Polk county; has one child: William G. G. Huglin, Joachin, South twp., farmer, Sec. 1; P.O. Bevington; was born in Baden, Germany, February 24, 1809; was raised there, and emigrated to the United States in 1855; stopped about two months in Columbus, Ohio, and then came to this county, and located where he now lives twenty-three years ago; he married Miss Fredrick Wahl, May 1836; she was born March 6, 1812, in Carlsrue, Baden, Germany; they have a family of two sons and four daughters: Joachin Jr., Frederica, now Mrs. Ulerich Meckley, marry, Now Mrs. Charles Rinig, Kate, Magadaline, Now Mess. Andres Gaekle, and Charles; has lost four sons and one daughter: Barbara, George, Jacob, William and Frederick C. Huglin, John G., Crawford twp., proprietor Huglin House; born in Baden, Germany, in 1847; he came to America when eighteen years of age; came to Madison county in 1866; he married Anna Hanninger February 25, 1871, a native of the same place; they have one son, George. Hull, James, Ohio twp., farmer, Sec. 16; P.O. St. Charles; born in Wayne county, Ohio, in 1829; was raised there; came to Van Buren county, Iowa, in 1855, and to this county in 1857; he married Miss Jane Holmes June 17, 1855, a native of Tuscarawas county, Ohio; they have three sons and one daughter: Alfred N., John D., William L. and Gertrude; owns a farm of 285 acres. Hursh, Joseph A., Winterset, miller; born in Pennsylvania, in 1831; came to this county in April, 1878; he married Miss N. J. Euslon in December 1860; she was born in Iowa; has three children: Carrie E., Jesse E. and Clarence H.; lost two (children). Husted, Thomas, Ohio twp., farmer, Sec. 7; P.O. Ohio (twp.); born in Des Moines county, Iowa, April 30, 1844; his parents came to that county in 1842; they removed to Clarke county, Iowa, in 1853; he was raised there; he was in the army in Co. B., Eighteenth Iowa infantry; enlisted July 8, 1862, and was muster out at Little Rock, Arkansas, July 1865; was in the battles of Springfield, Missouri, Lutonia, Prairie De Ann and Poison Springs; after his return he married Susan Fowler October 26, 1865, a native of Missouri; they has six sons and one daughter: William F., Robert S., Charles E., Thomas E., Ora E., Cora B. and Harlan C.; owns a farm of 172 acres. Hutchings, Joseph J., Winterset, school teacher and land trader; was born in Clark county, Indiana, on the 29th day of November, 1825, and traces his ancestry back to old English stock. The family first came to this country about the middle of the last century and located first in Maryland and afterward in the old dominion. Until the age of twenty-three, Mr. Hutchings' life was spent in the earnest discipline of life on a farm, and such educational advantages as were offered by a Quaker subscription school, which was the only school the ever attended. It is easy to trace much of Mrs. Hutching's subsequent success back to the excellent training of his early life, and also to appreciate the fact that such a course of life is far better adapted to develop self-reliance, energy and activity that one calling forth less effort; in 1849 Mr. Hutchings followed the star of empire westward and reached Iowa with all his worldly effects in a carpet bag; he remained one year in David county, Iowa, and then returned to Indiana, where he taught a term of winter school; in 1851 he again came to Iowa; in August of that year he came to Winterset from Newton, a distance of seventy miles, on foot, and over untracked prairies and bridgeless streams; he taught school in the county for two winters, and in 1852 established himself in Winterset in the business of trading in land; honesty, candor, activity and enterprise prospered Mr. Hutchings from the beginning, and he rose slowly, but steadily; he accepted the hardships of pioneer life with good grace, and even zest, and built up his prosperity on the business principle that in every fair bargain, both parties gain; consequently, he soon became a man of mark and influence in the community and has made an enduring impression in the business and social life about him; in 1856 he married Miss Mary Bell, a native of Ohio; has one child: Flora, now the wife of Dr. Wintrode; in 1872 Mr. Hutchings engaged in banking and became the president of the Citizens' National Bank; he has shown here the same sagacity and good management that have marked him elsewhere; he is an earnest republican, having grown into that faith from a basis of early Whig principles; he made it a point in early life to never seek a political office and has steadfastly refused to accept one; as in other things, Mr. Hutchings is firm and unwavering in his political principles; in all respects he is a good representative Iowa man. Hyder, Edward C. H., Winterset, photographer; born in Germany in 1843; came to America in 1851, and to this county in 1865; has worked at this present business sixteen years; he enlisted in the 33rd Indiana Inf. in the late war, and was discharged, and afterward enlisted in the 132nd Reg. Indiana Inf., and served until the regiment was mustered out; he married Miss Rebecca Cassidy in 1870; she was born in Ohio; has one daughter: Edith; lost one daughter: Flora. James, Annon, Scott twp., farmer, Sec. 35; P.O. Winterset; born in Wayne county, Indiana, January 27, 1830; he came to this county in 1854; he came by wagon and was twenty-eight days on the road; he settled on his present farm in 1855; he married Miss Phoebe Reel, June 27, 1854; owns 220 acres; has a family of seven sons and four daughters: Alice, Homer W., Olive, Florence, Granville J., Oliver H. P., James W., Samuel W., Francis M., Lilly and Melvin W.; was justice of the peace about eight years. Jensen, Julius, Penn twp., farmer, Sec. 10; P.O. Earlham; born in Prussia in 1837; came to America in 1871; married in 1858 to Miss Doves, A native of Germany; has four children living: Anna, marry, Christopher and Ida; when first coming to Madison county, Mr. Jensen met with a terrible misfortune in the loss of his wife and two other members of his family by small-pox, contracted it is supposed to be on its way over to America; is a member of the Lutheran church. Jessup, Isaac, Lincoln twp., farmer, Sec. 24; P.O. Winterset; owns 80 acres of land; born in Switzerland county, Indiana, May 10, 1824; came to Iowa in 1849 and settled in Warren county, and came to this county in 1851; he enlisted in the Fourth Iowa Infantry during the war; he married Miss Malinda Brinson in January 1844; she was born in Indiana; has five children: H. Z. (Harvey Zebulon), Daniel (Henderson), William O. (Oliver), George T. (Taylor) and Charles E. (Elsworth); when he came to the county he split rails for twenty-five cents per hundred and paid ten cents per pound for meat, and for eighteen months he carried all of his grain that he used in his family for breadstuff to mill on his back. Johnson, Andrew, Webster twp., farmer, Sec. 13; P.O. Winterset; born in Indiana, October 15, 1811, and came to this county in 1857; owns 201 acres of land; he married Miss Marian Glover in 1828; she was born in Indiana in 1810; has six children: Martha, Margaret, Louisa, George William A. and James M. Johnson, Barney, Crawford twp., dealer in grain and lumber; born in county Louth, Ireland in 1850; came to the United States in 1869; has been engaged in business in Bevington, since September, 1875. Johnson, Harry D., Jackson twp., farmer, Sec. 36; P.O. Dexter; born in Hendricks county, Indiana, in 1846, and lived there and engaged in agricultural pursuits until 1874, when he removed to Wayne county, Iowa; in 1975 he again changed his location for one in Madison county, where he now resides; he was married in Shelburn, Indiana, to Inga H. Kail, she being a native of Owen county, of that State; they are the parents of two children: Gertrude and Eddie. Johnson / Johnston, Jehu Mortimer, South twp., farmer, Sec. 26; P.O. St. Charles; was born in Franklin county, Indiana, August 3, 1828; was raised there; he married Miss Hester, daughter of Francis and Mary Keown November 16, 1848; in the spring of 1850 he came to this county and located in this township, on Sex. 32; he came by wagon, and was about two months on the road; has lived on his present farm since March, 1867; owns a farm of 320 acres; they have a family of six sons and three daughters: Mary M., now Mrs. Wesley Roberts, John F., Samuel T., Jennie, Alexander, William, Hester J., Albert S. and James W. Johnson, Nicholas W., Lee twp., farmer and stock-raiser, Sec. 14; P.O. Boonville, Dallas county; was born in Buenos Ayres, South America, where his father was engaged in business, in 1829; his father was a native of Connecticut, and his mother of Rhode Island; in 1834, when the subject of this sketch was five years old, they returned to the United States, and settled in Brooklyn, N.Y., and after a residence of one year removed to Connecticut; he early formed a desire to follow the water as an occupation, and commanded a ship from 1854 to 1862, when the business was ruined by the damages incident to, and growing out of, the civil war; while engaged in this business, he was very successful, and on his return trip from the coast of Africa, after the outbreak of the rebellion, he barely escaped being captured by the Alabama, being in sight of the smoke of one of its victims; he afterward made a successful trip to the Cape of Good Hope, where he sold his cargo and ship at a handsome profit in gold, and returned to his home; he then started on a prospecting tour west, and after traveling the State from east to west, selected his present farm in this township, and settled on 1863; it comprises of 960 acres of splendid land in a high state of cultivation, and is one of the best stock farms in the county or State; the Badger river runs through the entire north portion, affording plenty of water and fine groves for shelter and wood, much of it being black walnut; he is a large stock-feeder, and buys a great deal of grain from those who have it to sell; he married Miss Emma Johnson in 1863; she is a native of Orange county, Vermont; his family consists of his wife and eight children, two being by a former marriage: their names are: Ellen, William G., Caroline, Louisa, Emma, Nelson L., Nancy and Nicholas. Jones, Edward W., Winterset, retired merchant; born in Wales, in 1834; emigrated to the United States in 1854, and settled in Wisconsin; he came to this county in the autumn of 1868, and, in connection with M. R. Tidrick, was engaged in selling goods; he married Miss Emily J. Wood in 1862; she was born in Ohio, and died in February, 1868; he afterward married Miss Sarah D. Wood, in November 1868; she was born in Ohio; has two sons by first marriage: Roy G. and Willie E., and one son by his second marriage: Harvey B. Kautzman, Ham, Winterset, editor of the Beacon Light; native of Logan county, Ohio, and was born September 30, 1847; he moved to Guthrie county in 1856, and has worked at the printing business more or less for seventeen years; he started the Beacon Light in 1874; and it is the only paper of that name in the United States; in June, 1878, he removed to this county, and claims a circulation of 600 in the county, and a total of 875; he married Miss Jennie F. Patterson in 1871; she was born in Cincinnati, Ohio; has three children: Lalia B., Ira C. and Frederick G. Kellogg, Miles, Scott twp., farmer, Sec. 5; P.O. Winterset; born in Butler county, Ohio, May 5, 1823; when he was about nine years of age his parents moved to Fountain county, Indiana; he was raised there; July 3, 1845, he married Miss Elizabeth Smith; she was born in the same county January 20, 1822, but raised in Fountain count; in 1845 they emigrated to Iowa, stopping in Keokuk about six months, and thence to Mahaska county, where they lived until coming to this county in 1855; they left Indiana in a one-hours wagon and were thirteen days on the road; Mr. Kellogg owns 160 acres of well improved land; they have one son and one daughter: Mary J., now Mrs. J. A. Gordon and James M. Kennedy, William, Crawford twp., farmer, Sec. 34; P.O. Patterson; born in county Derry, Ireland in 1819; in 1844 he married Nancy Brizell; she was born in the same county, May 8, 1821; Mr. Kennedy came the United States in 1845 and located in Philadelphia; he remained there seven years; then to Logan county, Ohio, where he lived about four years, and then came to this county, and located where he now lives; owns 286 acres of land; when he came he had but forty-five dollars in money, three horses and one wagon; they have nine children: Mary J., Lizzie, John K., James W., Johanna G., Martha E., Wm. L., Anna and E. M. Kilgore, Benjamin Franklin, Monroe twp., Sec. 8; P.O. Winterset; was born in Campbell Co., Kentucky, in 1823, and resided there ten years; then removed to Marion county, Indiana, in 1833, and was raised there; from there, he came to Iowa in 1844, and settled in Jones county, and came to this county in 1865; owns 125 acres of land; he married Miss Hill (Mary) in 1843; she was born in Virginia in 1825; they have twelve children, nine are still living: Herbert Hl, Margaret J., Mary F., Harriet A., Charles P., Bertie B., Silas H., Elmer A., Willis B., Hugh L., Cyrus R. and William A. King, Noah, Scott twp., farmer, Sec. 25; P.O. Winterset; born in Fauquier county, Virginia, July 25, 1802; when about eleven years of age he moved with his parents to Mason county, Kentucky, where he lived until he was twenty-two years of age; he then removed to Minard, formerly Sangamon county, Illinois; there he married Miss Jane Randles April 8, 1829; she was born in Iredell county, North Carolina, July 8, 1811; they came to this county in 1865 and located where they now live; he owns about 565 acres; they have four sons and three daughters: William, Nancy, Noah M., Ruah Evaline, Dulcina, Amberry and Albert W. Kinsman, Denison, Douglas twp., farmer, Sec. 27; P.O. Winterset; born in Williamstown, Orange county, Vermont, in 1818, and in 1856 emigrated to Bureau county, Illinois, where he remained until his removal to this county in 1867; he owns ninety acres of land; has held various township offices; he married Miss Mary Martin November 24, 1839; she died in Princton, Illinois, December 12, 1865; he married for his second wife Lora Burnham March 21, 1867; she was born December 26, 1825, and was a native of Vermont; has four children by first marriage: Rosamah, born November 28, 1840; James W., born August 19, 1842; Herman A., born March 25, 1844; Sarah W., born August 26, 1845; lost one son, Jason M.; James W. enlisted in the Ninety-third Illinois infantry in the late war and served three years. Kipp, William H., Jackson twp., farmer, Sec. 36; P.O. Winterset; born in Oneida county, New York, in 1819, living in that county until he was eighteen, when he removed to Warren county, Illinois, where he resided until 1871; then locating in Dexter, remaining there a few months; then purchasing an improved farm of 160 acres in this county, which, by systematic labor, he greatly beautified, selling the same for $50.00 an acre, bought the land where he now resided, and has again displayed a thorough knowledge in improving and embellishing a home, his farm being a model in all respects; he is now living with his third wife, whom he married July 4, 1861; her maiden name was Ann Underwood; has six children: Mary, now Mrs. D. C. Holmes, of Des Moines, Sarah, Oscar, Jerome, William and Hattie; owns 224 acres of land in homestead and vicinity. Kirk, James V., Monroe twp., farmer, Sec. 30; P.O. Kasson; was born in Morrow county, Ohio, in 1843, and was raised there; he enlisted in the Twenty-fourth Ohio infantry, during the late war, and served until the regiment was mustered out; he came to this county in 1872; owns a farm of 132 acres; hold office of postmaster; he married Miss Mattie Hamblin in 1875; she was born in Ohio. Kitt, Fred, Penn twp., farmer, Sec. 14; P.O. Earlham; born in 1849 in Huntington county, Pennsylvania; came to Iowa in 1869; married in 1867 to Miss Susan Smith, of Ohio; has one child: Mary. Kivett, William Monroe, Grand River twp., farmer, Sec. 6; P.O. Wells; was born in North Carolina in 1826; his father emigrated to Indiana in 1831; came to this county in 1855; owns 225 acres of land; has held office of justice of the peace and other township offices; he married Miss Anna Ellmore; has four children: Mary E., William H., Elmira J. and Leroy. Klingman, Henry C., Winterset, carriage trimmer and ornamental painter; born in Ohio in 1828; came to this county March 11, 1877; he enlisted in the 172nd Ohio Inf. in the late war, and served until the regiment was mustered out; he married Miss Anna Lindsey in 1873; she was born in Ohio. Knight, Milton A., Winterset, county treasurer; born in Vermont in 1831; came to this State in 1850, and to this county in 1868; owns 160 acres of land; has held office of county treasurer four years; he married Miss Amanda Renshaw in 1861; she was born in Virginia; has seven children: Enolia, Wilson, Lucy, Edson, Wyman, Francis and Alice. Koehler, Charles F., Union twp., farmer and stock-dealer, Sec. 19; P.O. Winterset; born in Holmes county, Ohio, in 1842; came to this county in 1868; owns 170 acres of land; he married Miss Nancy J. Snyder in 1868; she was born in Holmes county, Ohio; has five children: Cora D., Otto F., Llewelyn, Lorena I. and Nora E. Koon, George, Winterset, justice of the peace; born in Pennsylvania in 1822, and came to this county in February, 1865; he married Miss Mary A. Shannon in 1855; she was born in Pennsylvania; has eight children: Clayton L., Desa G., John S., Laura C., Della G., Mollie L., Arminta and Kate. Kopp, Ernest, Jefferson twp., farmer, Sec. 34; P.O. Winterset; born in Prussia, in 1830, where his youth and early manhood was spent; at an early age, having a natural taste for music, he devoted considerable time to the study of that profession, acquiring a thorough knowledge of his art; he emigrated to this country at the age of twenty-four, locating in Marion county, this State; remaining there one year, he removed to where he now resides in the spring of 1856; he was married, June 26, 1867, to Miss Alwilda Esta, of this county, formerly of Ohio; to them were born four children: Mary, Dora, Charles and Elizabeth; Mr. Kopp of late years has made music teaching his principal business, giving lessons on the piano and other musical instruments in the northeastern part of the county with entire satisfaction; owns forty acres of land, which he cultivates. Kridler, Edward H., Winterset, attorney; born in Maryland in 1841, and afterward removed to Ohio; he enlisted in the late war in the 2nd Ohio Heavy Artillery, and served until the close of the war, and came to this county in 1868, and was admitted to the bar in 1871; he was elected mayor of the city three terms; he married Miss M. A. Snitzer in 1867; she was born in Ohio and died in September 1877, leaving one child: Olive; he afterward married Miss Laura Hill, who was born in this State. Kukuk, Fred, Monroe twp., farmer, Sec. 21; P.O. Clanton; was born in Germany in 1833, and emigrated to America in 1854, and settled in Chicago and lived there five years and then removed to Henry county, Illinois; he came to this county in 1871; owns 220 acres of land; he married Miss Caroline Frederick in 1859; he was born in Germany and died in 1869; he afterward married her sister, Ricka Frederick, in 1869; she was also born in Germany; their family consists of six children: Charles, Hanna and Sarah by his first marriage; Matilda, William Henry and Lucy by his second marriage; lost one son, John. Kurtzwell, John, Webster twp., farmer, Sec. 32; P.O. Wells; is a native of Bohemia and was born in 1830, and came to the United States in 1858 and settled in Wisconsin; and came to this county in 1869; owns eighty acres of land; he married Miss Rosalie Louzek February 10, 1852; she was born in Bohemia; has one son: Mathias; lost on son: Joseph.