ROLLINS, J. Q. from the "Biographical History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa"

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J. Q. ROLLINS, section 21, Center Township, Pottawattamie County, is 
one of the early settlers and well-known citizens of the township.  He 
came here in 1865, and has since made this place his home.

He was born twenty miles from Augusta, Maine, in Kennebec County, 
February 10, 1838, a son of Levi Rollins, a native of Maine.  His 
grandfather, Mark Rollins, was born in New Hampshire, July 4, 1776.  
He was a carpenter by trade, at which he was still able to do work 
when he was eighty years old.  He lived to be ninety-nine.  The 
Rollins family trace their ancestry to three brothers who came from 
England to America and settled in the New England States.  The mother 
of our subject was nee Julia Ann Smart.  The Smarts were descendants 
of an old New England family.  Levi Rollins and his wife reared a 
family of eight children, as follows:  Sarah, deceased; James, at 
Grinnell, a soldier of the Twenty-fourth Iowa Infantry in the late 
war; J. Q., our subject; Mary Hussey, a resident of Main; Calvin, who 
resides in New Hampshire.  He was in the Seventh Main Infantry, but 
was transferred to the Thirteenth Main Infantry.  He was in the battle 
of Cedar Creek, where General Sheridan made his famous ride.  Calvin 
was wounded in that battle.  Oscar was also in the Seventh Maine 
Infantry, and died of disease in the army; Harriet, deceased; Edward 
resides in Maine.  Mr. And Mrs. Rollins lived in Maine until their 
death.  The mother was a faithful member of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church.  Her death occurred when J. Q. Was twelve years old.  The 
father died at the age of seventy-three years.  He was a farmer all 
his life.  Politically he was formerly a Democrat, but later a 
Republican.

Mr. Rollins was reared on a farm and received a common-school 
education in Main.  In 1860, he came to Iowa and settled in Cedar 
County, where he lived until he came to Pottawattamie County.  He was 
married in Cedar County, December 2, 1863, to Miss Mary Viena Fuller, 
daughter of Ezra and Arloa (Turner) Fuller.  A sketch of her father 
appears on another page of this work.  She was born in Cuyahoga 
County, Ohio, and lived there until she was thirteen years of age, 
when she came with her parents to Iowa.  Mr. and Mrs. Rollins have 
eight children living, viz.:  Mary Ellen, wife of J. B. Wills, of 
Butler County, Nebraska, has four children; Edward Elsworth and James 
Levi, both of Belknap Township, this county; Julia Eva, Herbert Henry, 
Arthur Garfield, Olive Pearl, Benjamin Harrison --- all at home.  
Jessie Mary died in her seventh year.

In 1865 Mr. Rollins came to Pottawattamie County and purchased forty 
acres of land in Center Township.  This he afterward sold to A. L. 
Brown.  He then rented land of Mrs. Fuller for one year, after which 
he bought eighty acres in Valley Township.  That farm he exchanged for 
eight acres in section 15, Center Township.  After improving it to 
some extent he sold it and again rented land.  In 1886 he purchased 
his present farm of eighty acres.  The soil had been broken, but there 
were no buildings on the place.  He has since made many improvements, 
has erected a good house and barn, and everything about the premises 
shows thrift and prosperity.  Mr. Rollins is engaged in general 
farming and some carpentering, and during a portion of the year he 
operates a thresher and corn-sheller.  He is a Republican; has served 
as Constable, Justice of the Peace, and as a member of the School 
Board.

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If you would like more information about anyone mentioned in this
biography, please write to the Pottawattamie County Genealogical
Society at:

PO Box 394
Council Bluffs, IA 51502-0394

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