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Stuart; Mr. Laird owns two good quarries, one in Madison county and one in Dallas county, both near Earlham; from the one in Dallas, the best of dimension rock is obtained, also ruble in large quantity; most of the foundation stone of the new capitol building was obtained from the quarry in Dallas; Mr. Laird was born in 1821, in Beaver county, Pa.; he married in 1842, Miss Nancy Barclay, of Lane county, Ohio; has six children living: George A., Charles L., John A., Ann H., Jane E. and Agnes Laizure, William Hamilton, Douglas twp., farmer, Sec. 28; P.O. Winterset; born in Harrison county, Ohio in 1829; he came to this county in 1852; he married Miss Nancy E. Lowe in 1868; she was born in North Carolina; has four children: William B., Hiram M., Kate L. and James T. Leach, R. L., Winterset, dealer in sewing machines; born in Ohio in 1839, and came to this county in 1868; he is an agent for the Wheeler & Wilson sewing machine, and dealer in all kinds of sewing machine attachments; he married Miss Addie Williams, in 1864; she was born in Ohio; has five children: Laura A., Benonie H., Jessie O., Charles S. and baby. Leaseman, Henry C., Monroe twp., farmer, Sec. 23; P.O. Winterset; was born in Hanover, Germany, in 1839; he emigrated to America in 1857, and settled in Menard county, Illinois, and remained there until he came to this county in 1865; he owns 350 acres of land; he married Miss Mary Broderick in 1879; she was born in Illinois; they have five children: Charles Ilot, Mary A., Jennie L., Elmer E. and an infant. Lee, Wesley K., Penn twp., farmer, Sec. 9; P.O. Dexter; owns 400 acres of land; born in 1820 in Highland county, Ohio; came to Iowa in 1863; married in 1844 to Miss Hinman (Hannah), of Clinton county, Ohio; has seven children living: John, Ebenezer, Samuel, Harriet, Elizabeth, Joseph and Mary F.; has coal on his land; has a good house. Lee, William Octavio, Grand River twp., insurance agent, Macksburg; was born in New York in 1836, and came to this county in 1855 and was engaged in teaching; he owns 240 acres of land; he enlisted in the First Iowa Cavalry during the war and served three years, and was with the regiment in all of its engagements; he has held various township; offices; he married Miss Angeline Barker in 1860; she was a native of Indiana; their family consists of five children: Clarence, Charles, Vinnie, Rosa and Theodore. Lehman, Daniel M., Lee twp., farmer; Sec. 12; P.O. Commerce; was born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, in 1825, and remained there until 1852, when he removed to DuPage county, Illinois, and in 1855 went to Miami county, Ohio, and lived there until 1861, when he emigrated to Logan county, Illinois, where he lived until his coming to this county, in 1867; he owns a farm of 240 acres; has held school offices; he married Miss Eliza Hershey in 1852; she was born in Pa.; they have four children: Walter E., Isaac N., Edgar H, Cyrus A. Leinard, Jacob, Lincoln twp., farmer, Sec. 2; P.O. Winterset; born in Harrison county, Ohio, in 1810; came to this county in October, 1852; owns 200 acres of land; has held various township offices; he married Miss Esther Ruby in 1838; has four children: Elizabeth, Anna C., John W. and Melville C. LeMar, George Washington, Madison twp., farmer, Sec. 11; P.O. Earlham; was born in 1835, in Fairfield county, Ohio; came to Madison county in 1857; he married in 1860, Miss Mary Spray; Mr. LeMar has a good home, which cost him $2,500; has been justice of the peace for several years; has one of the best orchards in the county, consisting of 1,000 apple and 200 cherry trees, covering about eighteen acres. Lenocker, Christian, Penn twp., farmer, Sec. 28; P.O. Dexter; owns 400 acres of land; Mr. Lenocker is a native of Switzerland; came to America in 1855; lived in Oh. until 1869, when he came to Madison county; has eleven children living: D. H. (David), J. W. (Jacob), L. G. (Levi Godfrey), John L., Mary, Kate, Eliza-beth, Carrie, Rosan and Christ (Christian); married Susan Smith, of Oh.; member of the Lutheran church. Lenocker, Fred (Frederick), Penn twp., farmer, Sec. 20; P.O. Dexter; owns 80 acres of land; born in 1849 in Holmes county, Ohio; came to Iowa in 1870; married in 1876 to Miss C. (Caroline) Lenocker, of Ohio; have two children: Ralph W. and Maud L.; has made all his own improvements; smart, intelligent man, who brings brains to his help on the farm. Leonard, John, Winterset, attorney; born in Knox county, Ohio, August 20, 1825; he was reared a farmer, and at twenty-three years of age was elected county surveyor of Monroe county, a new county formed out of the counties of Knox, Richland, Marion and Delaware; during his earlier years he had the benefit of the common schools, and afterward became a student of Granville Seminary, now Denison University, and pursued such studies as he deemed most beneficial in the practical business of life; during the period that he held the office of county surveyor he occupied his leisure hours in reading law, and was admitted to the bar at Wooster, Ohio, in 1852; in 1853 he came to this city and engaged in the practice of his profession; he was elected district attorney in 1862, and resigned in 1864; in 1873 he was elected district judge of the Fifth Judicial District; in 1874 he was placed on the bench, a position he filled four years; he married Mrs. Minerva Denman Best, of Morrow county, Ohio, in 1848; has two children: Byram, who is associated with him in the practice of law, and John F., a student at law; Mrs. Leonard has one daughter by her former marriage: Mary J., with of Hon. Frederick Mott. Leonard, William L., Winterset, physician and surgeon; born in Knox county, Ohio, October 6, 1823; he was educated at the Fredericktown (O.) Academy and the Norwalk (O.) College, and graduated from the Ohio Medical College in 1852, and from the Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, in 1874; he began the practice of his profession in Chesterville, Ohio, but after one year removed to Cheviot, Ohio, and formed a partnership with his preceptor, Dr. M., H. Litzenburg; in 1855, he, in conjunction with his partner, removed successfully an ovarian tumor weighing forty-five pounds, and was the first in his locality to apply the Esmaich apparatus in amputations and the treatment of varicose ulcers, and Sayres; plaster jackets in Potts’ disease; in 1859 he came to this county, and in September 1862, was appointed assistant-surgeon of the 39th Iowa Inf., which position he filled until April, 1863, when he was appointed post-surgeon at Corinth, Mississippi, on the staff of Gen. G. M. Dodge, in which position he continued until October, 1863, when he was commissioned surgeon of the 7th Illinois Inf., and remained with this regiment until the close of the war; he is a member of the Iowa State Medical Society, and of the Madison County Medical Association, of which he was elected president July 3, 1873, and secretary January 6, 1876; he published in the Cincinnati Clinic of May 22, 1875, a review of an article on malpractice; he has held the office of county treasurer one term; he married Miss Elizabeth Young, of Knox county, Ohio, December 5, 1843; owns 270 acres of land. (We copy the above largely from the “Physicians and Surgeons of the United States.) Lewis, John, Monroe twp., farmer, Sec. 29; P.O. Kasson; born Ray county, Tennessee in 1825, and moved to Illinois in 1828; he went to California and spent two and one-half years, and returned and settled in this county in 1855; he owns 175 acres of land; has held offices of town trustee and school director; he married Miss Sarah J. Eldedge in 1849; she was born in Illinois; has five children: Charles H., Mary E., Sarah C., Allen B. and William S.; lost two: James M. and Jasper M. Lewis, W. H., proprietor of the Winterset nursery, Sec. 36; P.O. Winterset; born in Chatauqua county, New York, in 1840, and came with his parents to Iowa in 1849; he was raised on a farm and attended the high school in the town where they resided; he read law and was admitted to the bar in 1865, before Judge Gray; he practiced his profession for a short time and then entered the office of C. D. Bevington & J. J. Hutchings, and while in their employ started his nursery and to which for the past ten years he has given his attention, and the reputation of which is being more widely extended each year; he served an unexpired term of county judge by appointment, and has held the office of county supervisor six years; he was appointed superintendent of the construction of the court- house and performed his duties to the entire satisfaction of the county; he also has charge of the building of the ward school house and the insane building at the poor farm, and his record for honor and fidelity to the county’s interest is a worthy tribute to one of Madison county’s best citizens; he married Miss Emma Wilson in 1864; she was born in Springfield, Pa.: their family consists of four children: Francis, Frederick, George and an infant daughter. Likes, Elbridge Tidrick, Winterset, physician and surgeon; born in Guernsey county, Ohio in 1852, and in 1854 his parents removed to Polk county; he received his medical education at the Detroit Medical College, and in 1874 came to this county, and associated with Dr. Tidrick in the practice of his profession: he married Miss Nettie Robinson, in 1876; she was born in Beaver county, Pa.; has one child: Georgia Link, John Magee, farmer, Sec. 6; P.O. Winterset; owns 130 acres of land; born in Rush county, Indiana in 1841; he married in 1874, Miss Ella Johnson, of the same place, has one child, Thomas; Mr. Link owns one of the neatest places in the township; he was educated at College Hill, Ohio, and at Fairfield Academy, Fairfield, Indiana; he has quite a collection of books. Loftus, Michael, farmer, Sec. 13; P.O. Bevington; born in the west of Ireland, in the year 1817; was married to Miss Bridget McGloon January 20, 1845; two years after he was married, he emigrated to Canada, where he lived for about eight years; then came to Des Moines, Iowa, where he lived for only two months, and came to this county where he now lives; he owns 229 ½ acres of land; they have a family of seven children, two sons and five daughters; William, Catherine, Maria, Margaret, Mike, Ann and Agnes. Loomas, Augustus H., Grand River twp., farmer, Sec. 1; P.O. Macksburg; was born in Oswego county, New York, August 8, 1829, and removed to Illinois; he came to this county in 1866; owns 240 acres of land; he married Miss Rachel Johnson in 1869; she was born in Indiana; has three children by present marriage: Ruby C., Lewis and Anna R., and two by former marriage: Francis Ward and Rinaldo. Lorimor, Alexander W., Lincoln twp., farmer and wool-grower, Sec. 23; P.O. Winterset; born in Washington county, Pennsylvania in 1828, and resided there until 1837, when with his parents he moved to Ohio and lived there until he came to this State, in 1856; owns 326 acres of land, well improved; he owns 125 acres near Des Moines, 100 acres being within the corporate limits; since coming to this county he has devoted a great deal of his attention and means to raising sheep, and he with his brothers have been the largest operators in the county in this line; he married Martha J. Reasoner in 1862; she was born in Muskingum county, Ohio; their family consists of seven children: Minnie E.(Cecilia), Emma E. (Estina), Alva A. (Alexander), Howard R.(Reasoner), Angia A. (Agnes), Arthur G. (Gibson) and (Leonidas) Lee. Lorimor, Benjamin Franklin, Lincoln twp., farmer and wool-grower, Sec. 22; P.O. Winterset; born in Pennsylvania in 1833; when young his parents removed to Ohio where he remained until he came to this county in 1854; owns 710 acres of land, and is giving his attention to raising sheep and horses in connection with other stock; has held school offices and has been justice of the peace; he married Miss Mary El Morrow in 1854; she was born in Guernsey county, Ohio; has six children: Palmer P., Frank M. Lizzie L., Charles G., Mary C. and Freddie S. Lorimor, James Sayrs, Scott twp., farmer, Sec. 30; P.O. Winterset; born in Washington county, Pa., March 26, 1827; when ten years of age his parents removed to Guernsey county, Ohio, and live there nine years, then removed to Washington county, Ohio, and lived there eight years; he married Miss Mary J. Harvey, of Washington county, Ohio, March 16, 1854; the same spring they emigrated to Iowa, and this county, and located in this township; has lived on his present farm since the spring of 1860; owns 400 acres of land; has three sons and two daughters: Elza B., Laura L., Effie L., Theodore L, Alvernus H. Lothrop, Caleb Bailey, Winterset, is a native of Vermont, and was born in 1815; his early life was spent on a farm; he emigrated west and settled in Rock Island, Illinois, in 1852; in 1856 he came to Des Moines, and in 1862 settled in Winterset; he has been engaged in the mail service as carrier and contractor since 1859; in 1866 he took the contract for carrying the mail from Council Bluffs to T. Kearney (a distance of 200 miles) daily, and continued it until the completion of the U.P. R. R.; he also had other contracts; he has been the president of the Madison County Agricultural Society for six years, but has avoided all political offices; he married Miss Jane Hatch in 1841; she was a native of Vermont; they have four children: Dwight, Charlie, Eugene and Jennie, now Mrs. Whedon. Love, James Dayton, Grand River twp., merchant and stock-dealer; P.O. Macksburg; born in North Carolina in 1828, and when young emigrated with his parents to Indiana, and after living there several years removed to Illinois, and in 1863 came to Iowa and in 1864 settled in this county; he leaned the trade of carpenter, and worked at it for years; he then engaged in the mercantile business, and was the first general merchant in Macksburg; as a man he has the unbounded confidence of the community, despising everything mean or dishonorable; he has held various township offices, and is the present mayor of the town; he married Miss Phebe C. Jones in 1850; she was born in Ohio; they have five children: Wesley P., Geneva J., Mary E., Huldah B. and Ida E. Mack, Joseph Hughes (Dr.), Macksburg, physician; was born in Guernsey county, Ohio, in 1837, and after a residence in Ind. and Ill., came to this county in 1857; he came up the river to Des Moines on a boat, and landed near the mouth of the Coon river; it was so wet and muddy he came on foot from Des Moines to Grand River township; he owns about 600 acres of land, and is engaged extensively in farming; he enlisted in the 47th Iowa Infantry in the late war; he has been practicing his profession actively about sixteen years; he has been closely identified in the improvements of Grand River township; he married Miss Bonham (Hannah Jane) in 1857; she was born in Ohio; has four children: Sarah, Alice, Ona B. and Artie. Macomber / Macumber, John Averill, Lincoln twp., farmer and stock-raiser, Sec. 28; P.O. Winterset; born in Gallia county, Ohio, in 1820; he was raised a farmer, and came to this county in 1853; he owns 400 acres of land in a high state of cultivation, and with good improvements; he has held township offices; he married his present wife, Sarah Hartsook, in 1849; she was born in Gallia county, Ohio; has nine children: Andrew, Henry, Alexander, Lindsey, George, John, Edward, Ellsworth and Esther A. Main, J. W., Penn twp., farmer, Sec. 6; P.O. Dexter; born in Henry county, Indiana, where he lived until nineteen years of age; removed to his present location in 1869; married March 14, 1857, to Miss Sarah J. Bales, then of Dallas county, formerly of Wayne county, Indiana, born 1840, died August 21, 1870; by this union there are two daughters, Olive Mabel and Flora Ellen; Mr. Main was raised a farmer, which occupation he follow until he was called to aid his county, enlisting as a private, August 11, 1862, in Co. H., Thirty-ninth Iowa Infantry, he was commissioned second lieutenant in 1862, and served in that capacity until 1864; was then transferred to Co. C, Forty-sixth Iowa Infantry, receiving the commission of first lieutenant, which he held until the rebel rooster crowed his last; he was mustered out at Davenport, with his regiment, in June, 1865; having been in active service during the entire term of his enlistment; he returned to his far, and engaged in agricultural pursuits; has served as constable, clerk and township trustee; owns 93 acres of land; has control of 186 acres. Major, Allen, Lee twp., farmer, Sec. 1; P.O. Commerce, Polk county; born in Longford county, Ireland, May 3, 1812; he emigrated to America in 1836, and settled in Indiana, where he remained until 1848, when he again removed and settled in what is now Warren county, and lived there seven years and came to this county in 1855; he owns 240 acres of land, and has improved the farm he now owns; he has held various township offices, including assessor, town trustee and school director; he married Miss Frances Irwin in 1837; she was also born in county Longford, Ireland; they have four children: George, Mary, John and Margaret. Mann, John W., Ohio twp., farmer, Sec. 2; P.O. St. Charles; born in Wood county, West Virginia, January 29, 1838; was raised there until he was seventeen years of age; he then came with his father to this county; he married Miss Emily J. Mustar January 3-, 1868, a native of Harrison county, Ohio; born October 13, 1844; they have two sons and two daughters: Mary V., John W. Jr., Charles A. and Flora; he was in the army; enlisted in Co. H, Twenty-third Iowa infantry, August 9, 1862, and was mustered out at New Orleans, June 19, 1865; was in the battles of Port Gibson, Champion Hills, Black River, siege of Vicksburg and numerous skirmishes; was also at the siege of Mobile; owns a farm of 100 acres; has taught school thirty terms. Mapes, Eugene Perry, Penn twp., farmer, Sec. 22; P.O. Earlham; born in Cuyahoga county, Ohio, in 1854; came to Iowa in 1854, first to Delaware county, then to Madison county in 1870; Mr. Mapes is an intelligent young man who is now doing for himself with evident success. Mapes, Erastus S., Penn twp., farmer, Sec. 22; P.O. Earlham; owns 80 acres of land; born in Cuyahoga county, Ohio, in 1832; came to Iowa in 1854; married in 1862 to Miss S. A. Robinson, of Ohio, has three children: Fred. O., Florence O. and Fannie O. - the first two twins; Mr. M. is an eastern man, who was a school-mate of the now celebrated Garfield; lived within one mile of him till he was 21 years old. Mardis, Thomas F., Winterset, brick manufacturer and contractor; born in Jefferson county, New York, in 1837; came to Iowa from Ohio in 1857, and settled in Washington county; in 1859 he removed to Clarke county, and came to this county in 1873; he has been engaged in the brick business from boyhood and is thoroughly conversant with all its details; owns 172 acres of land; he has held the offices of town trustee and school director; he enlisted in the 18th Iowa Inf. in the late war and served three years; he married Miss H. A. (Hulda Ann) Clark in 1860; she was born in Illinois; has three children: John, Hattie and Freddie. Marley, John H., Grand River twp., farmer, Sec. 21; P.O. Macksburg; was born in Indiana March 10, 1832; after living a short time in Morgan county, Indiana and Edgar county, Illinois, he came to this State settling in Clinton county, and April 11, 1853, removed to this county and has been engaged in farming and stock-raising; he owns 353 acres of land; he has held various township offices and is at present a member of the board of supervisors; he married Miss Delilah Downing in 1857; was born in Indiana. Matthews, William E., Winterset, harness-maker; born in Prussia July 31, 1832; emigrated to America in 1854; owns 160 acres of land in Buena Vista county; he married Miss Jennette Sattler in 1854; she was born in Prussia April 1, 1832; has two children, Amelia, wife of S. G. Bevington, and Otto Maxson, John, Penn twp., farmer, Sec. 23; P.O. Dexter; owns 160 acres of land; was born in St. Lawrence county, New York, in the year 1837; married in 1864 to Mary Button, of Ohio; has five children living; Mr. M. is now engaged in farming and stock-raising; has a good farm, with good improvements. Maxwell, James, Jackson twp., farmer, Sec. 28; P.O. Macksburg; born in Knox county, Illinois, in 1844; lived there until twenty-eight years of age, then came to this county purchasing a very desirable eighty acres of land, which he has thoroughly improved. Means, Lewis F., Grand River twp., farmer, Sec. 24; P.O. Macksburg; born in Missouri in 1840 and learned the trade of carpenter and came to this State in 1862; owns eighty acres of land; he enlisted in the Thirty-ninth Iowa infantry in the late war; he married Miss Anna Weeks in 1855; she was born in Coles county, Illinois; they have five children: Eola, John O., Ivan M., Bertha and Luella. Mease, Lewis, Walnut twp., farmer, Sec. 24; P. O. Ohio (twp.); born in Center county, Pennsylvania, March 21, 1821; he went to Illinois in 1856 and spent the winter, and came here the following spring and located about one mile northwest of where he now lives; has lived on his present farm sine 1865; he married Miss Mary A. Rockey September 28, 1850; she is a native of the same county; they have two sons and two daughters: Agnes, Cyrus J., Martin C. and Beatrice; has a farm of ninety-five acres. Mekemson, William Brown, Jackson twp., farmer, Sec. 23; P.O. Winterset; born in Henderson county, Illinois, in 1842, lived there until the autumn of 1867, then removed to Madison county, Iowa; married in Henderson county, Illinois, December 28, 1865, to Jennette Thomson, a native of Scotland; by this union they have six children: Elizabeth E., Hattie M., Anna B., Jessie S., Jennette and Maggie J.; owns 100 acres of land; Mr. Mekemson enlisted in the Eighty-fourth Illinois volunteer infantry, company G, July 28, 1862, being but twenty years of age; he was transferred in May, 1863, to Twenty-third veterans, company B; was at the battle of Stone River; was with General Hobson at the capture of Sioux Mundy, Kentucky, and was engaged in hunting guerrillas the last two years; was discharged at Clinton, Iowa, July 25, 1865; before he was transferred, he was severely injured, dislocating his hip, and upon recovery was made bugler to General Hobson. Merchant, Abraham, Jefferson twp., farmer, Sec. 1; P.O. Boonville; born in Fayette county, Ohio, in 1829, where he lived until he removed to Fulton county, Illinois, and in 1861 came to Washington, Iowa, living there four years, when he removed to this county, locating where he now resides; was married in Peoria county, Illinois, February 27, 1856, to Miss Mary E. Thatcher, a native of Oberlin, Ohio; to them have been born six children, of whom four are now living; Addie, Lee, Martie and Blanche; having lost two sons: John and William; Mr. Merchant owns a very desirable farm of 110 acres with good improvements; his residence is surrounded by a fine grove, which also encloses a splendid orchard, which has never failed to supply home consumption and to spare. Miller, James M., Winterset, attorney, of the firm of Wainright & Miller; born in Decatur county, Iowa, in 1851; his father was a minister, and after residing in various places came to this county in 1868; his early education was supplemented by a course at the Des Moines University, where he graduated in 1875; he read law and graduated from the law school in Des Moines in 1876, at which time he was admitted to the bar; he has held the office of mayor of the city. Miller, J. W., Winterset, son of Judge W. E. and Mary R. Miller; born in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, in 1851; in 1852 his parents removed to Iowa City, where he was raised and received his education; in 1871 he came to Des Moines and was employed in the lumber business, and after a residence of ten years came to Winterset and engaged in the same business, which he continued until January 1, 1877, when he connected himself with the Winterset Madisonian as one of its editors; in November, 1876, he was united in marriage with Miss Laura J. Cummings; she was born in Winterset. Milligan, George Haver, Webster twp., farmer, Sec. 25; P.O. Winterset; born in Switzerland county, Indiana, in 1850; came to this county in 1856; owns forty-six acres of land; has served as constable. Mitchell, Mathew N., Winterset, farmer; born in Dauphin county, Pennsylvania, in 1818; came to this county in 1868; owns 206 acres of land; married Miss Mary A. Zearing, March 20, 1845; she was born in Pennsylvania; has six children: Mary, Henry, Myra, Tillie, John and Willie. Monaghan, James, Douglas twp., farmer and stock-raiser, Sec. 11; P.O. Winterset; was born in Scotland in 1824, and came to America in 1854; he learned the trade of blacksmithing, and for many years followed this occupation, and at one time he was the only blacksmith in Winterset; he owns 466 acres of land; has held school offices; he married Miss Margaret Monaghan in 1854; she was born in Ireland; they have seven children: Hugh, Mary Ann, John, James, Maggie, Thomas and William; they lost one daughter: Elizabeth. Monger, David, Penn twp., Sec. 23; P.O. Earlham; born in Gentry county, Missouri, in 1847; married in 1869 to Miss Nancy McGinley of the same county; has four children: John Martha, Hays and Stella; married the second time, to Mrs. D. Case, of Missouri; in 1871 Mr. M. took a trip to Nevada, staying one year; burnt charcoal while there. Monroe, William Hooper, Walnut twp., farmer, Sec. 24; P.O. Ohio (twp.); born in Barren county, Kentucky, March 16 1827; came to this county in the fall of 1869; he married Harriet J. (Julia) Hopkins January 5. 1863, a native of Peru, Indiana; his wife died April 23, 1874; left a family of three sons and two daughters: Florence M., Lorentus D., Minnie R., Frank H., and William P.; he married again to Rebecca E. Mackey December 12, 1875, a native of Ohio; Mr. Monroe was in the ninety days’ of service during the war, in company C., First Minnesota regiment. Moorman, Thomas C., Walnut twp., farmer, Sec. 25; P.O. Ohio (twp.); born in Greene county, Ohio, in 1818, and was raised there; he married Miss Rhoda A. Bryan, a native of Greene county, in 1841; they came to this county in June, 1865, and located where he now lives; owns 150 acres of land; they have a family of four sons and two daughters: Ellis G., Allen B., Susan, now Mrs. Peter Turner, Horace D., Rachel E., now Mrs. Thomas Landes and Eli H. Morgan, Jacob A., Winterset, furniture dealer; born in Northcumberland county, Pennsylvania, in 1847; came to this county in 1874; he is associated with D. H. McDill, under the firm name of Morgan & McDill, furniture dealers and undertakers; he married Miss Anna M. Duff in 1875; she was born in Guernsey county, Ohio. Morgan, Richard M., Webster twp., farmer, Sec. 19; P.O. Middle River; born in Menard county, Illinois, in 1842, where he resided until the outbreak of the rebellion and enlisted in the Twenty-eighth Illinois infantry, August 1, 1861, and was discharged April 6, 1865; he came to this county in 1866; owns 148 acres of land; has held office of township trustee; he married Miss Martha A. Nance in 1867; she was born in Menard county, Illinois; has five children: Luella, Laura B., Alva K., Eliza A. and Melissa. Morton, Hiram N., Walnut twp., farmer, Sec. 6; P.O. Winterset; born in Licking county, Ohio, January 8, 1834; he came to Jasper county, Iowa, in the fall of 1856; while there he married Phebe Hallieville, October 13, 1859; she is a native of Ohio; they came to this county in the fall of 1864; they have one son and two daughters: Laura E., Mary E. and Clarence E.; he owns 195 acres of land. Mott, Frederick, Winterset, attorney; born in Montrose, Susquehanna county, Pennsylvania, January 14, 1828; the early part of his youth was spent with his father in a woolen factory; at the age of seventeen he entered Brown University, Providence, R. I.; graduated in 1851, and for three years was principal of the Derby Academy, Vermont, and reading law at the same time; in 1854 he came as far West as Upper Sandusky, Ohio, where he had charge of the Union School two years; came to this county in 1857 and engaged in the practice of his profession, having been admitted to the bar in Vermont; in September, 1862, he was commissioned as quartermaster of the 39th Iowa Inf., and after serving few months was made adjutant; in 1864 he was commissioned by President Lincoln as assistant adjutant general and was assigned to duty with the third brigade, fourth division, fifteenth army corps, and served in that position until the close of the war; returning to Winterset in August, 1865, he resumed the practice of law; in 1867 he was made cashier of the national bank in Winterset; in 1868 he was elected judge of the fifth judicial district of Iowa, serving the full term of four years; the qualifications of Judge Mott for the bench may be inferred from the tenor of the resolutions passed by the Guthrie county bar on his retiring, one of them reading as follow: “Resolved, that we recognize and appreciate the marked ability, impartiality and courtesy with which he has at all times presided over the circuit court of Guthrie county, and congratulate him on the extraordinary success which has attended his judicial labors; the fact that of four hundred and sixty-two cases determined in his court in Guthrie county, during his term of office, not a single one has been appealed, indicates an appreciation of his decisions on the part of the litigants in this court as exceptional and rare as it must be gratifying to the judge”; the bar of several counties in the district passed resolutions of a similar tone, all commending his noble traits of character and his qualifications as a jurist; at the annual meeting of the Iowa Baptist Convention, held in Des Moines in 1870, he was elected its president, and the same compliment was paid him at the next three annual meetings; in 1873, the regents of the State University elected him to the professorship of pleading and practice in the law department of that institution, a position he held for two years, and then under the pressure of enthusiasm created by the Baptist denomination in favor of their higher schools of education, in connection with the centennial year of the nation, he accepted the presidency of the University at Des Moines; he held this position until the close of the centennial year, when, owing to the condition of his health, he resigned and returned to his old home and resumed the practice of law and banking; in 1856 he married Miss Emma E. Dean, of Grayton, Vermont; she died in August 1858; he afterward married Miss Mary J. Best, in July, 1861; she was born in Ohio; has four children: Shelty, Lenny, Chester and Byram. Mullinnix, Thomas Lindsey, Winterset, merchant, dealer in groceries and provisions; born in Indiana in 1844; came to this county in 1857; he has been established in business eleven years; he married Miss Elizabeth Harris in 1872; she was born in Wales; has one daughter: Myrtle. Munger, Nelson W., Winterset; is a native of Palmer, Hampton county, Mass., where he was born February 25, 1834, and his youth was engaged as a clerk in the store of his brother; he came to this county in 1854, and engaged in selling goods; in 1865, in company with J. T. White, he erected a woolen factory, and fitted it with machinery of the best quality, and gave employment to about twenty hands, and it was managed successfully until it was burned down in 1877, he has been identified with all the material interest that has marked the growth of the place, and what he has accumulated has been by fair dealing and industrious toil; he married Miss Jane M. Shaw in 1856; she is a native of Massachusetts; has one daughter: Jennie L. Murphy, H. C, Earlham; Sec. 18; dealer in grain and stock; P.O. Earlham; born in Wayne county, Indiana, in 1837, where he was raised; engaged in mercantile business in 1853 and continued at it until 1874, when he moved to this county, and again engaged in the mercantile business; he owns a fine farm of 240 acres in section eighteen; he raises grain for stock feeding; situated on his farm is a valuable limestone quarry; he married in Middletown, Indiana, in 1868, to Mary A. Dipboye, a native of that county; they have two daughters: Mattie Edith and Winnetha; Mr. Murphy enlisted in August, 1862, as commissary of the Eighty-fourth Indiana infantry; was mustered out with the regiment in July 1865; he participated in twenty-three battles: Chicamaugua, Resacca, Kenesaw Mountain, Lookout Mountain; siege of Atlanta, two day fighting at Nashville, Franklin, and so on through many others without receiving wounds or ever being in the hospital; Mr. Murphy never asked for a furlough during his three years in the service. Musgrave, James, Union twp., farmer, Sec. 6; P.O. Winterset; born in North Carolina August 17, 1819, and in 1828 removed to Indiana, where he remained until his removal to Iowa in 1850, and came to this county in 1852; he owns 220 acres of land; he married Miss Elizabeth Forester in 1842; she was born in Indiana and died February 9, 1875. McAferty, Francis Marion, Webster twp., blacksmith, Sec. 6; P.O. Middle River; born in Linn county, Iowa, March 19, 1841, and came to this county in 1855; he enlisted in the Twenty-ninth Iowa infantry, August 18, 1862, and served until the regiment was mustered out; he married Rachel Friend August 4, 1861; she was born in Iowa; has two children: Edgar W. and Benjamin F. (Franklin). McBride, Malcolm, Jefferson twp., farmer, Sec. 22; P.O. Van Meter; born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1839, and when seventeen years old came alone to America, landing at New York city, went to Grand Isle county, Vermont, where he remained three years, and in the spring of 1851 removed to Clayton county, Iowa; here he was married to Ellenor Hazen July 25, 1856, of the same county, formerly of Grand Isle county, Vermont; they have five living children, two died in infancy: Lawrence (William), Carrie (Augusta), Nellie Ermine, Cora (Floretta) and Hattie (Luana); Mr. McBride has the sum of $100 in his pocket on reaching Vermont, and from his indomitable perseverance he has now 240 acres of land, which in 1866 he found a raw prairie; his farm is cultivated with that thrift which characterizes the man that “paddles his own canoe” through early life; on it is found an apple orchard of thirteen-hundred trees; his homestead is one of the most desirable in the township. McCaughan, Charles Thomas (Rev.), Winterset; born in Trigg county, Kentucky, in 1814; there he remained until 1831, when he removed to Ohio; he was educated at the Miami University and graduated from that institution in 1837, and took his theological course at Allegheny; he was licensed to preach in April, 1840, and ordained in 1841, and at the same time was installed pastor of the church at Sidney, Ohio, and continued this relation seventeen years; he afterward had charge of the seminary in Urabana three years, and of the Mansfield academy, Pennsylvania, for the same length of time; he came to Madison county and located in Winterset in 1865, and took charge of the United Presbyterian church in this city; he has pursued his chosen course with untiring zeal and great success, and the denomination with which he is connected are largely indebted to his services in the building up of five churches in this county; he at present has charge of the church at Peru; in 1841 he married Miss Elizabeth S. Sheppard, who was a native of Trome, England; their family consists of nine children: John S. (Sheppard); Frances A. (Ann), now Mrs. (Charles T.) White; Emily C. (Caroline), wife of D. (David N.) Hitzer; Thomas S. (Stevenson); Mary S. (Susanna), R. (Rufus) Bell; James McC. (McCullough); George E. (Edward); Jessie E. (Eugenia) and Frederick G. (Graham); they have lost three: Charles A. (Alexander); Josephine (Amelia) and an infant (Hattie Beatty); he is a pioneer in the temperance cause; as an advocate of total abstinence, has labored earnestly and incessantly, yet without ostentation; his generous nature revolted at the thought of man’s holding property in his fellow man, and from his earliest manhood was known as an abolitionist who dared to denounce the wickedness of slavery, and to proclaim the right of universal liberty; he voted for Birney, the abolition candidate for president, and there were only two others in the county to follow his example; socially of a retired position, caring but little for large crowds, he enjoys the company of a few known friends, and is never more happy than when thus surrounded, discussing some topic of religion or reform. McCaughan, John Sheppard, Winterset, attorney; is the eldest son of the Rev. C. T. and Elizabeth McCaughan, and was born in Shelby county, Ohio, in 1843; he received his education at the public schools and Urbana Academy, but he has su0pplemented this by continued study, being a close student; he enlisted in the army during the late war, and was quartermaster in the Third U.S. colored troops, which was the first regiment in the field; he laid out camp William Penn, at Philadelphia; after his return from the army he came to Winterset in 1865, and entered the law office of Leonard & Mott, and commenced reading law, and was admitted to the bar in 1868; he is at present associated with A. R. Dabney in the practice of his profession, under the firm name of McCaughan & Dabney; he married Miss Meckie (America) Pitzer in 1868; she was born in Jefferson county, Iowa; their family consists of four children: Charles A. (Allen); Nellie D. (Day); Frank L. (Lee) and Clara. McCloskey, James K., Crawford twp., station agent, Bevington; born in Franklin county, Ohio, July 10, 1846; when four years of age, his parents moved to Hancock county; he lived there and in Clarke county till fourteen years old; in October, 1863, he enlisted in company E. Ninth Ohio cavalry; was with Kilpatrick on the March to the Sea; came to this county in 1869; married Miss Elizabeth K. Young August 4, 1870, a native of Pennsylvania; they have four daughters: Emma (Jane), Lizzie (Elizabeth M.), Cynthia and Lenora. McConkey, William, Union twp., farmer, Sec. 26; P.O. Winterset; born in Wayne county, Ohio, and removed to Indiana where he lived nineteen years and came to this county in 1856; owns 140 acres of land; has held offices of town trustee and school director; he married Mary Mathewson in 1849; she was born in Vermont and died in 1850; he afterward married Miss Sarah J. Tisdale in 1851; she was a native of West Virginia; has five children: Nancy M., M.J. Patiece, Maggie A. Sophia and Martha; lost one daughter, Martha E., by first marriage; and two by second marriage: Mary H. and Sophronia. McDaniel, Francis M., Douglas twp., farmer and stock-raiser, Sec. 2, P.O. Winterset; born in Montgomery county, Indiana, in 1833, and came to this county in 1852; owns 291 acres of land; he married Miss Sarah Sturman in 1859; she was born in Ohio, and died in 1872; left four children: Abe (Abraham), Meckie (Rebecca), Stella and Ward; he married Miss Belle Cox in 1876; she was born in Ohio; has one child, an infant. McDaniel, Jesse, Winterset, merchant; born in Missouri, in 1842, and was raised there; he enlisted in the Seventh Missouri cavalry during the late war and served three years; he came to Winterset in 1873, and engaged in his present business; he married Julia Davis in 1873; she was a native of New York. McDill, David H., Winterset, of the firm of Morgan & McDill, furniture dealers and undertakers; born in Henderson county, Illinois, in 1843; came to this county in September, 1868; owns 160 acres of land; he enlisted in the 84th Illinois Infantry in the late war and served three years; he married Miss S. C. Morgan in May, 1867 (Louisa Co. Ia.); she was born in Pennsylvania; has five children: Clara E., Mary A., Jesse, Blanche and Wilbur. McDonald, Thomas, Douglas twp., farmer and stock-raiser, Sec. 21; P.O. Winterset; born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, May 3, 1817, and removed to Guernsey county, Ohio, in 1837; he came to this county in 1862; he owns 300 acres of land; his object in coming to Iowa was to secure a home and land for his family, and what is unusual, four of his children are settled in the immediate vicinity of his homestead, and the others find a home under the paternal roof; he married Miss Eliza Burt February 25, 1841; she was born February 22, 1819; has seven children: Cyrus B. (Burt); Joseph F. (Fletcher); Robert F. (Fletcher); William S. (Scott); Francis M. (Marion); Malcolm and Harriet; one son, John, died February 1, 1853. McDowell, Robert, Union twp., farmer, Sec. 25; P.O. Patterson; born in Pennsylvania, in 1826, and lived in this State until 1861, when he removed to Ohio, and remained until 1864, and then came to this county; he has held various township offices; he married Mss Martha Ralston in 1849; she was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania; has ten children: Joseph N. (Newton), Maggie, Rachel (Ellen) and James (Milton), (twins), John (Calvin), Mary (Rebecca), Anna, Emma (Frances), Etta (Luetta Graham) and Willie (William Ralston). McGee, Mathew Miller, Douglas twp., farmer, stock-raiser and stock-feeder, Sec. 15; P.O. Winterset; was born in Ireland in 1829; he came to this country in 1831, and settled in Ohio, where he remained until he removed to this State in 1853, and to this county in 1854; he owns 741 ½ acres of land, and is devoting his attention largely to the raising and feeding of stock; he has a large orchard of 900 trees on his farm of choice fruit; he has held school offices, and served as a member of the board of supervisors; he married Miss Caroline Kale in 1852; she was born in Ohio; has four children: Mary A. (Ann), Rebecca E. (Ellen), John M., and Iver Lee. McGinnis, Joseph Simpson Jr., Union twp., farmer and stock-raiser, Sec. 25; P.O. Patterson; born in Indiana in 1843, and came to this county in 1852; owns 360 acres of land; he married Miss Melvian Tisdale in 1863; she was born in Indiana; has three children: Mary E., Theodore; Bertie B.; his father, Joseph McGinnis, was born in Maryland in 1792; he removed first to Ohio, and afterward to Indiana, where he remained until his removal to this county in 1852; he married Sophia Beal in 1815; she was born in Maryland and died in 1878; Joseph McGinnis (Sr.) died in 1858. McKibben, William, Madison twp., farmer, Sec. 5; P.O. Earlham; born in Delaware county, Indiana, in 1839; when two years old his parents moved to Brown county, Ohio; here he lived until 1855, when he came to Dallas county, Iowa; in 1858 he removed to where he now resides; he married in Dallas county, in 1857, Nehushta Wilson, she being a native of Marion county, Indiana; by this union there were five children: Rachel Ellen, Lydia Suama, William Seward, Jesse W. and Lizzie Jane; owns 160 acres of land, with a fine orchard, running water and a stone quarry; Mr. McKibben enlisted at Winterset, in August 1861, in the 39th Iowa Infantry, Co. A; this regiment was in the terrific battle of Alltoona where five of its commanding officers and thirty-six non-commissioned officers and privates were killed, and also fifty men were wounded, and those missing amounted to eighty; Co A lost two officers and three privates and had sixteen wounded and eleven missing; Mr. McKibben has been township trustee for five years and is still in that capacity, having just received the office for anther term. McKnight, William Wylie, Winterset, born in Washington county, Indiana, September 16, 1822; his early life was spent on a farm; he had the advantages of the common schools in youth, and this he supplemented with a years attendance in the preparatory department of Hanover college, Jefferson county, Indiana, and taught three years in his native county; he afterward spent four or five years in Marion and Hendricks counties in teaching and mercantile pursuits, and in 1855 removed to this county, settled in Winterset and commenced trading in land; he followed this occupation for two years and then resumed the mercantile business, following it until 1864; the following January he aided in the organization of the National Bank of Winterset and became its cashier, and the institution is largely indebted to his financial management and business capacity for its present prosperous condition, and he has been connected with its management more or less until 1877, when he retired from the bank; he owns several large farms near Winterset, and is doing an extensive business in the agricultural line, and at the present time is connected with the firm of T. B. Moore & Co., in merchandising and is one of the large tax-payers of Madison county; he has avoided public life as much as possible, but has rendered valuable aid to those interests of great benefit to the public; he married Miss Hanna Likins of Vermillion county, Illinois, in December, 1855; they have seven children: Sarah, now Mrs. Moore, Laura, Emma, Robert W., Charles, Katie and Nellie. McLain, John, Union twp., farmer, Sec. 25; P.O. Patterson; born in Ireland November 1, 1831, and came to this country in 1847, and settled in Vermont, from there he went to Buffalo and remained two years, and then to Chicago and lived there two years, and came to this county in 1858; he owns 220 acres of land; has held office of school director; he married Martha Weir October 3, 1855; she was born in Ireland; has four children: Robert W., born April 5, 1856, John T., born February 28, 1858, Mary J., born February 19, 1860 and James W., born November 19, 1864. McManus, Felix, Crawford twp., merchant, Bevington; born in county Down, Ireland, in 1833; he was nineteen years of age when he came to America; he then traveled about more or less till 1869, when he settled in Churchville, Warren county, Iowa; he opened out the first stock of goods in Bevington in 1872; he married Miss Mary Carsh October 28, 1873; they have one daughter, Elizabeth E., born August 7, 1877 McMichael, Alexander Jr., Winterset; (deceased, died July 6, 1879); county recorder; born in Ireland in 1852; came to America when young and settled in Pennsylvania; came to this county in 1866; he married Miss Maggie J. Wood in 1878; she was born in Missouri. McMichael, James, Crawford twp., farmer, Sec. 24; P.O. Bevington; born in Ayrshire, Scotland, in the year 1809, and emigrated to Ireland in 1825, and lived there till 1866, when he came to Pennsylvania, and lived for one year, and from there to this county and settled where he now lives; he married Miss Ann Hinnan in Ireland, and his a family of seven children living: Sarah, John, James, Ann, Thomas, Eliza and Mary; in 1865 he married a second time to Elizabeth Scollan, but have no children; has a farm of 160 acres. McPherson, Valentine, Ohio twp., farmer, Sec. 2; P.O. St. Charles; born in Tuscarawas county, Ohio, September 5, 1828; was raised there; he married Susan Disher, of the same county, April 25, 1851; in the fall of 1855 they came to Lee county, Iowa, where they remained until may, 1857, and then came to this county; owns 240 acres of land; they have one son and five daughters: Amanda, Cecilia, Mary M., Alice M., Hulda and David W. Neff, Isaac D., Penn twp., farmer, Sec. 10; P.O. Dexter; owns eighty-one acres of land; born in Franklin county, Virginia, in 1836; came to Indiana, where he stayed twelve years and then came to Iowa in 1868; married in 1867 to Mrs. Payne (Nancy Gilman), of Indiana; has five children living; is an intelligent, affable man, whom it is a pleasure to meet; has a good farm, with good improvements; is a member of the Christian church. Nelson, Joseph V., Webster twp., physician and surgeon, Sec. 6; P.O. Middle River; was born in Adams county, Ohio, in 1843; during the war of the rebellion he enlisted in the 17th Ohio Infantry and served two years; he received his medical education in Cincinnati, Ohio, and came to this State in 1869 and has practiced his profession since that time; he married Miss Elizabeth Nichols in 1875; she was born in Pennsylvania; has one child: Verda V. Nicholson, Minerva, Jefferson twp., widow of S. (Samuel) W. Nicholson, farmer, Sec. 18; P.O. DeSoto; born in Muskingum county, Ohio, in 1831; daughter of Michael E. White, now of this county; married June 18, 1850, in her native county; Mr. Nicholson was born in Jefferson county, and raised in Muskingum county; he lived in Ohio until 1854, when he emigrated to Madison county, where his survivor now lives; they entered their land from the government in the spring of 1854; during the same spring William Payton and James Brown located near; these three families being the first settlers in what is now Jefferson township; Mrs. Nicholson has in her possession the first poll-book of the township; her husband was township clerk for the first ten years after the organization thereof; Mrs. Nicholson taught the first school taught on the divide between Council Bluffs and Des Moines; the building still stands near her fine residence, a happy reminder of the past; owns 160 (acres) of land, well cultivated and all modern improvements, and a grand apple orchard, being on of the three oldest in the township, it has been bearing for fifteen years and has never failed to supply the family and some to spare; Mrs. Nicholson was left a widow October 27, 1874; since then she has managed her farm with the energy and success that only a woman can, that has, like her, been early taught by experience to face trial and privations; Mrs. Nicholson was a member of the first religious organization in the township, vis. The M. E. church, organized July, 1855, at William Payton’s house, now on Sec. 6, Jefferson township; this organization boasted of thirteen members, viz. William Payton and wife, D. H. Rose and wife, John Mitchell and wife, George Mullin and wife, S; W. Nicholson and wife and George Gutshall and two others. Null, Samuel, Douglas twp., Steward of the Madison County Poor Farm; was born in Warren county, Ohio, in 1812; he came to Henry county, Iowa, in 1856, and to this county in 1869; he is a man well fitted for the position he has held for the past three years, having had experience in a similar institution in Warren county, Illinois, and for six years in Henry county, Iowa, and the success that has attended his efforts here is known to all; he married Miss Margaret Miltenberger in 1832; she was born in Rockingham county, Virginia; has three children: William H.. Jennie E., wife of D. Reese, and Emma M.; lost one son: George. Odell, Solomon, Scott twp., farmer, Sec. 14; P.O. Winterset; born in Crawford county, Ohio, May 19, 1828; was raised there; he married Miss Frances Caskey November 21, 1850; she was born in the same county; they came to this county in 1854, and remained but a short time, and the removed to Adams county, and returned here in 1861 and located where they now live; they farm 200 acres; they have one son and five daughters: Martha, now Mrs. Wiley Scott, Fanny A., now Mrs. James Breeding, John, Mary, Asenth and Effie. Oldham, Andrew, Madison twp., farmer, Sec. 35; P.O. Winterset; owns 440 acres of land; born in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, in 1806; married in 1836 to Miss C. Boden; has five children living: Jessie, John B., Margaret, Mary Jane and Roxilina; two dead: Elisha and Mary A.; Mr. Oldham came to Madison in 1857, where he has made it his home since; has acquired all his own worth by industry and good management. O’Loughlin, Terrence, Jackson twp., farmer, Sec. 35; P.O. Winterset; is a native of Ireland; came to America in 1856, being then ten years of age; located in Fondulac, Wisconsin, where he was married to Mary Crestle, and the same year removed to Iowa; they are the parents of four children, three sons and a daughter; they have by industry and perseverance made for themselves and children a home, built upon a beautiful tract of 80 acres; he is no acting as road supervisor. O’Loughlin, Tim, Jackson twp., farmer, Sec. 35; P.O. Winterset; born in Ireland in 1852; emigrated to the United States and settled in Wisconsin in 1854; from there he moved to Iowa, locating in Madison county, where he is still residing; was elected constable in 1878; is the owner of 80 acres. Overhulser, Jacob L., Madison twp., farmer, Sec. 15; P.O. Winterset; owns 102 acres of land; born in Montgomery county, Ohio, in 1837; came to Iowa in his seventh year; his parents were among the first settlers of Jefferson county, this State; married in 1878, to Mrs. Harrah (Mary N.), of this county; has one child living; Mr. Overhulser has one of the best improved farms in the county, with a barn and house far better that the average; Mr. Overhulser has been quite an extensive traveler: in 1860 he went to California and spent four years, returning by steamer to the Isthmus, then home via New York; Mr. Overhulser is an intelligent, affable gentleman who has profited by his travels, and who relates many interesting anecdotes, which space forbids our giving; we cannot speak too highly of Mr. Overhulser’s good taste as displayed in the arrangement of his farm; would that more were like it. Palmer, G. D., Winterset, editor of the Winterset News; born in New York, in 1819; he removed to Toledo, Ohio in 1840, and edited the Toledo Register, and afterward removed to Iowa City, and edited the Iowa Capitol Reporter, and was the first state printer; he was auditor of Johnson county for six years; from 1862 to 1864 he edited the Janesville Monitor, at Janesville, Wisconsin; he came to this county in 1875, and since that time has been engaged in his present occupation; he married Miss Alice H. Hazard in 1851; she was born in East Feliciana, Louisiana; has two children: Delia H. and Lizzie A. Pattison, Alexander, Crawford twp., station agent, also of the firm of Fox and Pattison, proprietors of the “Eureka Mills,” Patterson; born in Guernsey county, Ohio, may 28, 1823; lived there till eighteen years of age, then moved with his parents to Warren county, Illinois; came to Warren county, Iowa, in 1868, and to this county in 1870; he laid out the town of Patterson: January 1, 1859, he married Miss M. A. McWilliams, of Guernsey county, Ohio; they have one daughter: Martha J. Payton, B. W. (Capt.), Jefferson twp., farmer, Sec. 6; P.O. DeSoto; owns 440 acres of land; born in Delaware county, Indiana, in 1835; came to Iowa in 1866; Mr. Payton married the first time to M. A. Richards; the second time in 1878, to Lizzie Gibson, of England; has four children living; Mr. Payton served four years in the army; was captain of Co. E, Forty-seventh Indiana infantry; was under General Grant; also, under General Pope; Mr. Payton is now one of Madison’s most enterprising and intelligent farmers; owns a fine large farm with improvements, better than average. Peed, Edmund, Douglas twp., farmer, Sec. 4; P.O. Winterset; was born in Indiana in 1827, and removed to this county in 1856; owns 294 acres of land, a part of which he entered in 1853; has held office of school director; he married Miss Eliza White in 1850; she was born in Indiana; has three children: Nancy J. (Jane), Francis M. (Marion) and Charles T. Perkins, Elijah, Lincoln twp., farmer, Sec. 14; P.O. Winterset; born in Sullivan county, New Hampshire, May 30, 1810; he emigrated to Ohio when a young man, and was engaged in teaching school for several years; he came to this State in 1848, and to this county in 1849, and settled on the land where he now resides, and mad the greater part of the improvements; he owns 207 acres of land, on which he has a valuable sugar maple grove, affording all the sugar and syrup they wish for home use; he married Miss Julia A. Ansley in February, 1850; she was born in Pennsylvania, and died in December, 1867; he afterward married Mary A. Lukecart in 1869; she was born in Illinois; has one son by first marriage: Wesley J. C.; lost one daughter: Clara J., aged twelve years. Perkins, Erastus Gidden, Jackson twp., farmer, Sec. 35; P.O. Maple Grove; born in Orange county, Vermont, in 1822; moved to Sylivan county New Hampshire, with his parents and brothers; was educated at Newberry Seminary, Vermont; is a graduate of South New Market; remained in New Hampshire until he removed to New York City and engaged in the grocery business; remaining there four years, thence to Washington City as clerk in census office; in 1851, he entered 240 acres of land in Lincoln township, Madison county, Iowa, which he partly improved and then returned to New Hampshire, where he remained six years; he, with his family, emigrated westward, settling in said township for some ten years, then changed his location for one in Jackson township, where he now resides; in the year 1864 he was deputized treasurer and recorder; he was county supervisor from Lincoln township one term, and has capably filled each township office; in 1865 he was elected Captain of Lincoln Home Guards; owns 200 acres of land; he was married in Charleston, New Hampshire, to Rosette A. Mirrill; by this union they have five living children: Edgar, Helen, Nettie, Clara and Alive; Charles died in 1874. Perry, N. A., farmer, Penn twp., Sec. 3; P.O. Dexter; born in ____ county, Wisconsin; when of age he came to Hamilton Co., Iowa, and in 1874 came to the farm where he now resides; he married in Wisconsin, in 1870, Mary A. Vanderventer; she was born in Chatham Center, Ohio in 1845; they are the parents of three children: Frank W., Mertie C. and Emma S.; owns eighty acres of land; Mr. Perry, when a boy of fourteen enlisted in company G, Forty-ninth Wisconsin infantry. Peters, Anson M., Madison twp., farmer, Sec. 11; P.O. DeSoto; owns 640 acres of land; born in Grand Isle county, Vermont in 1829; came to Madison county, in 1868; before settling in Madison county, Mr. Peters was for several years in Clayton county, this State, where he was in the mercantile business; in 1854 Mr. Peters went to California where he spent fourteen months in the mines; since 1868, Mr. Peters has been living where he now is; where he owns the finest house and barn in the county, which was built by him at a cost of nearly $13,000; his house is considered by all to be the finest farm residence in the county; was married in 1855 to Miss Jane Smith, of Essex county, New York; has nine children living, and one dead; Mr. Peters has about twenty-five acres of grove or timber planted, consisting of chestnut, butternut, ash (white), walnut, spruce and larch; he is a member of the M. E. church. Phillips, Levi, Scott twp., farmer, Sec. 32; P.O. Winterset; born in Guernsey county, Ohio, February 18, 1826; lived there and in Coshocton county until he was twenty- five years of age; he married Miss Charlotte Forney of Coshocton county, March 25, 1852; in July 1854, he emigrated to this county; he entered 160 acres of land from the government in Union township; they came from Ohio here with a wagon, and was thirty days on the road; he removed to his present farm in the fall of 1878, and owns a farm of 340 acres; has held office of township trustee one year; was justice of the peace of Union township nine years; they have four sons and two daughters: Sarah A., now Mrs. James Ma. Shannon, Hiram, John W., Harry H., Susan H. and Levi B. Phipps, James, South twp., farmer, Sec. 35; P.O. St. Charles; born in Grayson county, Virginia, October 6, 1823; was raised there until he was thirteen years of age; his parents removed to Knox and Hawkins counties, Tennessee; lived there three years, and then moved to Mercer county, Missouri; lived there five years, and then came to Iowa and located in Warren county, February, 1846; he remained there until coming to this county in 1851; he located where he now lives; he married Miss Eliza Hart September 15, 1847; she was born in North Carolina; she died April 1848; he married again to Minerva Viney February 6, 1849, a native of Virginia; she died October 10, 1864; left one son and four daughters: Eliza J., now Mrs. James Reed, Marticia, now Mrs. Samuel Johnston, Artimta, now Mrs. Gilmer Stoneman, Laura C., now Mrs. William Low, Robert W.; James was killed the battle of Alltoona; he married Lucinda Martin February 10, 1865, a native of Tuscarawas county, Ohio; has two girls and four sons: Lillie B., Elmer F., James H., Charley R., Nellie G. and Iver N.; Mrs. P. has one son and one daughter: Emma, now Mrs. Thomas Stoneman, and William H. Pinckney, Joseph Wesley, Grand River twp., farmer, Sec. 11; P.O. Macksburg; born in Scholarie county, New York, in 1833, and was raised in Saratoga and Niagara counties; in 1850 he removed to Illinois and settled in Henry county, and came to this county in 1869; owns 363 acres of land; has held offices of township clerk and assessor, school director and justice of the peace; he married Miss Mary J. Arasmith in 1852; she was born in Illinois; has nine children: Alvina A., Harvey H. M., John W. (Wesley), Leo N. (Napoleon), Daniel B., Joseph L. (Lionel) H. (Herbert), Charles W. (William) B., Mary E. (Edith) and George E. (Edmund). Pindell, Ethan Allen, Webster twp., farmer, Sec. 35; P.O. Macksburg; was born in Brown county, Ohio, September 22, 1822, and came to this county in 1854; owns 160 acres of land; has held offices of justice of the peace, town trustee and school offices; he married Miss Borshela Evans in 1846; she was born in Ohio; has two children: James M. (Madison), Fannie. Pitzer, James L., Winterset, merchant; born in Winterset in January 1851, and is probably the oldest resident of the city born here; he is associated with J. S. Taylor, under the firm name of Pitzer & Taylor, and are dealers in general merchandise, and are successors to the oldest established business in Winterset; he owns individually and as a firm over 1200 acres of land; he married Miss J. Cubbage in October, 1876; she was born in Pennsylvania; has one child: Edward. Pitzer, John A., Winterset, deceased; one of the most worthy citizens that ever made his home in Winterset; born in Virginia, February 22, 1813; when an infant, his parents removed to Christian county, Kentucky, where his father engaged in milling; he had the advantages of the common schools during his youth, and at the age of nineteen, commenced teaching, and continued this occupation for two or three years; in 1834, he removed to Morgan county, Illinois, where he remained until 1840, and then moved to Fairfield, Jefferson county, Iowa, and while living there was elected the first county clerk for four years; he came to this county in 1849, and located in Winterset, and engaged in merchandising, and was the first general merchant in the town; he was a man of enviable reputation, reliable and trustworthy; his actions impressing every one with whom he had business relations that a more straightforward, fair-dealing man could not be found; he was very charitable and kind to the poor, and his life is a record of noble deeds; it is said that during the financial panic of 1857-8, he gave over five hundred sacks of flour to poor families, without the least expectations of pecuniary reward, but in many cases he was happily disappointed; when he first located in the State he did considerable government surveying, sectionizing the north half of the county; he was elected county judge and held the office six years, and afterward was elected treasurer; in 1863 he was commissioned as paymaster in the army, with the rank of major, and held the position until the close of the war; he married Miss Elizabeth J. Rogers; she died suddenly May 19, 1876, leaving a widow and five children: William F., now living in Kansas, John M. and James L., living in this city, Meckie (America), wife of J. S. McCaughan, and Clara May. Polk, Charles, Monroe twp., farmer Sec. 6; P.O. McPherson; born in Knox county, Indiana, in 1838; he came to this county in 1874; owns a farm of 120 acres, well improved; he enlisted in the Twenty-first regiment Indiana volunteers, and was afterward in the First heavy artillery; he enlisted in the service in July, 1861, and was mustered out in February, 1866; he was at the battles of Baton Rouge, Fort Jackson and many others of less importance, and was north of the Mason and Dixon’s line only ten days during his time of service; he married Miss Minerva D. Scanling in 1871; she was born in Morning Sun, Ohio, and was educated at the Oxford Female Institute in 1863; they have two children: Estella, aged seven years, and Mary A., aged two years. Pomeroy, Neal Powers, South twp., farmer, Sec. 17; P.O. St. Charles; born in Holmes county, Ohio, July 19, 1828; lived there until 1855, and then came to this county; he married Sarah J. Collins November 21, 1860; where was born in Holmes county, Ohio, December 16, 1841; owns 305 acres of land; has three sons and three daughters: George C., John C., Ellen M., Margaret L., Amanda B. and Edgar E. Pope, Steven, Webster twp., farmer, Sec. 8; P.O. Middle River; born in England in July, 1809; he emigrated to America in 1835 and settled in New York, and then removed to Illinois in 1846 and lived there 11 years, and came to this county in 1857; owns 200 acres of land; he married Miss Eliza Eagabroad in 1840; she was born in New York; has seven children: Thomas, Mary A., Charlotte, Jacob, Laurane, Ruth, Leander; lost three: John H., George and Isiah. Pope, Stephen C., Webster twp., farmer, Sec. 8; P.O. Middle River; was born in New York in 1842, and came to this county July 22, 1857; owns 158 ½ acres of land; he married Miss Nancy A. Moore in 1868; has three children: John Henry, Jemima May and Minnie Etta. Potter, Rev. J. A., Winterset, pastor of the Presbyterian Church, Winterset; is a native of Pennsylvania, and was born near Pittsburgh in 1828; he was educated at Jefferson College, and graduated from that institution in 1851; he pursued his theological studies at the Western Theological Seminary, at Alleghany City, and completed his course in 1855; April 18, 1855, he was licensed to preach, and in November, 1855, was ordained by the Presbytery of Dubuque as an evangelist, and supplied two churches in the vicinity of Dubuque; he was called to the pastorate of the Presbyterian Church at Maquoketa in 1856; he was pastor of the church of Bethel, Butler county, Ohio, two years, and from there was called to Baltimore, where he remained seven years, and after a pastorate of two years in Wisconsin, was compelled to cease active duties on account of impaired health; in August, 1870, he became pastor of the Presbyterian Church of this city, and under his ministration the church has been greatly helped, and since he became pastor, the present elegant church edifice has been completed; he married Miss Nannie B. Naylor, April 29, 1856; she was a native of Dick’s Creek, Warren county, Ohio; she died October 14, 1859, leaving two children: William P. and Mary Belle; January 24, 1861, he married Sibyl Stevens, who was born in Butler county, Ohio; the fruits of this union is one son: John E. Powell, Ruel B., Madison twp., farmer, Sec. 24; P.O. De Soto; owns 245 acres of land, born in Marion county, Indiana, in 1845; moved from there to Madison county, Iowa, in 1854; has made this his home since; married in 1865 to M.T. (Talitha) J. (Jane) Goff, of Indiana; has five children living and three deceased; Mr. P. is one of Madison’s best farmers, an affable, intelligent man who carries brains as well as muscle into his work, and is respected by all who know him as a rising man; has served for three years as town clerk and an expired term of constable. Price, Richard, Winterset; born in Freeport, Ohio, February 28, 1848; his parents being R. K. and Mary (nee Michonor) Price; his father was a farmer, and what time the son was not occupied in duties on the farm, attended school; being an apt scholar he made rapid advancement in the English branches; about this time, in 1861, his parents removed to Iowa, and settled in the south part of Union township, Dallas county; he remained at home with his father, working summers and attending school winters, until seventeen years of age, when he commenced to battle with life on his own account; he was engaged in teaching and farming until the spring of 1869, when he entered the employ of Getchell & Sons, lumber dealers, in Dexter, remaining in that city about two years; in 1871 he was placed in charge of that firm’s business in Earlham, Madison county, and lived there four years; the firm at this time recognizing his ability, placed him in charge of another branch of their business at Colfax, Jasper Co.; this business he managed successfully until the fall of 1878, when he was transferred to this city, and had charge of their business until the spring of 1879, when he, in connection with Fred. Strong, bought out and continued the business under the firm name of Strong & Price; Mr. Price was married September 14, 1871, to Miss Martha Camblin, a native of Dayton, Ohio; their family consists of two children: Raymond M. and Paul L.; they lost one daughter, Nellie, April 5, 1876; Mr. Price is a man of cultivation, well informed, a good speaker, clothing his ideas in appropriate words of which he has a ready command. Queen, Hogan, South twp., farmer and stock-dealer, Sec. 7; P.O. Winterset; born in Wayne county, Indiana, February 22, 1821; his parents moved to Bartholomew county, Indiana, when he was quite young, and he was raised there; he married Miss Martha A. Runkle in Bartholomew county, February 5, 1846; she is a native of Culpepper county, Virginia, but was raised in Bartholomew county, Indiana; in 1853 he came with his family by wagon to Iowa, and was sixteen days on the road; they located where they now live; Mr. Queen is quite extensively engaged in farming, owning 532 ½ acres of Madison county’s best soil; they have a family of three sons and one daughter: William H. (Henry), Phebe J. (Jane), now Mrs. Morris Jones, John L. (Lewis) and Thomas H. (Harrison); Mr. Queen was postmaster at Queen’s Point for ten years: William H. was in the late rebellion; he enlisted in the hundred- days’ of service. 1