Wapello County IA Archives Biographies.....Shepard, L. S. 1842 - 
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Author: S. J. Clarke, Publisher

L. S. SHEPARD.
An excellent farm of three hundred and forty acres in Pleasant township is the
property of L. S. Shepard. It is adorned with beautiful shade and fruit trees,
all of his own planting, and there are many substantial modern improvements upon
the farm which have been placed there through the efforts of Mr. Shepard, who is
justly accounted one of the enterprising and progressive citizens of his
community. He was born in Portland, Connecticut, February 4, 1842, and is a son
of Edward and Sarah (Stocken) Shepard, who were also natives of Connecticut,
while the maternal grandfather was born in Scotland and became the founder of
the family in America. Both Mr. and Mrs. Shepard passed away in the state of
their nativity.

L. S. Shepard was one of a family of three children, he and a brother surviving.
His youthful days chronicled no event of special importance affecting his own
life beyond the fact that he had good home training and profited by the
educational advantages offered in the public schools. In 1865, when a young man
of twenty-three years, he made his way westward, settling first in Madison
county, Illinois. In the meantime, however, he had responded to his country's
call for aid, enlisting in 1863 as a member of Company B, Twenty-second
Connecticut Volunteer Infantry, with which he served for one year, participating
in a number of skirmishes, after which he was mustered out at Hartford,
Connecticut. He then returned to his home in that state, remaining for a short
time before going to the middle west. For two years he continued his residence
in Illinois and during that period was united in marriage to Mrs. Harriet A.
Payne, who was born in that state. At the end of two years spent in Illinois Mr.
Shepard and his young wife came to Iowa, settling in Wapello county, where he
purchased the tract of land upon which he now resides. It was then raw prairie,
scarcely a furrow having been turned thereon, while no improvements of any
importance had been made. With characteristic energy he began its development,
broke the sod, tilled and cultivated the fields, and in the course of time
gathered abundant harvests. He planted all of the trees upon the farm and there
are now fine shade and ornamental trees around his home and good fruit trees
which bear well in season. Within the boundaries of his place are comprised
three hundred and forty acres of rich Iowa prairie land and by the judicious
rotation of crops and other methods of keeping the soil in good condition he is
able to gather good harvests year after year.

Mr. and Mrs. Shepard became the parents of three children: Anna, at home; Ella,
the wife of J. F. Parker of Des Moines; and Edda, now Mrs. Lee Parker. There
were also five stepchildren: Emma Payne; Henry; G. W.; James A.; and Belle, the
wife of W. W. Sternes. Mrs. Shepard passed away on the 16th of March, 1900, and
was laid to rest in the Batavia cemetery, leaving a husband and eight children
to mourn her loss. She had many good traits of heart and mind, and her kindly
spirit and good deeds established her firmly in the affections of many friends.
In his political views Mr. Shepard has been a stalwart republican since casting
his first presidential vote for Abraham Lincoln. He served as township trustee
and for a number of years has been a member of the school board, always giving
his support to those movements which tend to promote the interests of education.
He may well be called a self-made man, for starting out in life empty-handed, he
has become the possessor of a handsome fortune that now enables him to live
practically retired. One of the secrets of his success is the fact that his life
has ever been honorable and straightforward. He has never dissipated his
energies in any kind of excesses but has concentrated his efforts upon his
duties as a man and citizen. He and his family are all members of the Methodist
Episcopal church, in which he is serving as a trustee, and in the work of the
church he has long been deeply and helpfully interested.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:
HISTORY OF WAPELLO COUNTY IOWA
ILLUSTRATED
VOLUME II
CHICAGO
THE S. J. CLARKE PUBLISHING COMPANY 1914


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