Montgomery County IL Archives Biographies.....Ferree, Jerome Dial June 10, 1838 - March 30, 1914
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Jerome Dial FERREE was born 10 June 1838 in Hillsboro, Montgomery County, 
Illinois and died 30 March 1914 Des Moines, Polk County Iowa. 
He was the son of Thomas Marsh FERREE (1801-1849), a native of Augusta, 
Bracken County KY and Esther Ann NELSON (1812-1880) a native of Clermont 
County Ohio.  Thomas M. FERREE was engaged in merchantile pursuits in Clermont 
County OH and shortly after his marriage, in 1835, relocated to  Montgomery 
County IL. He bought a farm in the area where their 6 children were born.   
The family remained on the farm until 1845, when Thomas Ferree took a contact 
to sprinkle the streets in St. Louis Mo where the family relocated until his 
death from cholera is 1849. His widow,Esther Nelson FERREE, then married Asa 
TURNER in 1850 in St. Louis, Missouri and the family returned to the family 
farm in Montgomery County where she lived for several years and then moved to 
Litchfield where she died at the advanced ago of 71 years in October 1882.. 
The parental FERREE family born in Hillsboro included:
Snowden Richard (1836-1927) who relocated to Wellington Kansas
Marshall O. (1841-abt 1864) enlisted in the United States service in 1861, was 
taken prisoner after the siege of Vicksburg and died in that foulest of 
Southern prisions, Andersonville
Matthew O.(1841-abt 1864)
Thomas M. (1849-abt 1920) relocated to  Morton County, Kansas
Sarah Antonia (1846-aft 1920)m. to  Joseph A. Coatney,  Litchfield, Illinois 

Jerome Dial  FERREE was the second in order of birth of his parent's children. 
After the death of his father in St. Louis, he returned to Hillsboro, IL and 
there worked out by the month during the summer seasons on a farm and attended 
school during the winters and thus his life was spent until about 18 years of 
age. He then attended school in Litchfield for nearly three years receiving a 
good college education, which he afterward supplemented by teaching for almost 
three years. In 1860, he relocated to Keokuk, Iowa and was engaged as an 
employee in the fire insurance business and for himself in real estate. 
In 1871 he started the general agency of Iowa for the St. Louis Mutual Life 
Insurance Company and held that position until 1873 after which he was Special 
Agent for the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company for Iowa.In 1875 
became general agent for Iowa of the Penn Mutual Life of Philadelphia. 
Jerome Dial then relocatede to Ottumwa, Iowa  and  organized the Ottumwa Loan 
and Building Association and in 1881 he organized the Iowa Mutual Aid 
Association of Ottumwa serving  as Secretary of the two latter companies since 
their inception. 
Jerome Dial and his wife Susan Frances NELSON had nine children:
Mary Ellen (1862-aft 1930) m. to Thomas Pugh MARTIN
Sallie Bell (1863-1864)
Bonnie Louise (1864-1919)m. to Thomas Bradford GARDINER
George Nelson (1866-aft 1927)
Frances Susan (1858-1951)m.to Willard E. CHAMBERS
Alice May (1870-1879)
Grace Besse (1872-1956)m.to Sidney D. McALLISTER
Diasy Lenore (1875-1964)m.to John Franklin KERFOOT
Violet Mignonette (1877-1940)m.to Charles Fison COLLISSON
Politically, JEROME DIAL FERREE has always been a staunch Republican, but is 
not an active politician. He has been a member of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church since 1869 and his good wife belongs to the Episcopal Church.
Sources:
www.beforetime.net/iowagenealogy/wapello/HistoryOfWapelloCountyIowaAndRepresent
ativeCitizens1901/F88.html
Ferree Family History:compiled by Colonel George Bennett Ferree, Chenoa 
Illinois 1901
History of Wapello County, Iowa and Representative Citizens ed. Samuel B. 
Evans, Chicago, Biographical Publishing Company, Chicago, 1901
Iowa Gazetter & Business Directory 1884-1885:FERREE, JEROME D. Secretary,  The 
Iowa Mutual Aid Association, 107 E. Main St, Ottumwa, IA; Ottumwa Loan and 
Building Association, Jerome Dial Ferree, Secretary.

Additional Comments:
Jerome Dial FERREE is my Great Grandfather. Photo is of Jerome Dial Ferree and 
Susan Frances Nelson Ferree

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