Meeker County MN Archives Biographies.....Polk, James W. 1809 - 
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JAMES W. POLK, an old settler and respected farmer residing on section 18, Forest
Prairie township, was born in Bullitt county, Ky., October 14, 1809, and is a son of
Edward and Margaret (Brown) Polk. His father and mother were the parents of a large
family of children.

  The subject of this sketch spent his school days in his native county, receiving a
good education, and at one time began the study of medicine. In 1830 he went to
Louisville, Ky., and there learned the cooper's trade, which he afterward followed
for about forty years. From 1841 until 1846 he conducted his shop in Chicago, and
then engaged in the dairy business near the same city. In 1857 ho came to Minnesota
and located in Jordan, where he remained about two years, and then went to
Henderson, where he was engaged in the coopering business, and remained until
October, 1866, when he camo to Meeker county, and located on his present place in
Forest Prairie township. He has a good-sized farm, and devotes his attention chiefly
to general farming, although in the past he has given considerable attention to
stock raising. Mr. Polk is a democrat in politics, and is one of the leading
citizens of the township in which he lives. He is a member of the Church of God, in
which he has been a deacon for thirteen years or more.

  Mr. Polk was first married on the 3d of January, 1S31, to Miss Eliza Chastine. She
gave birth to one child, Charles Wesley, and died when the child was three days old.
The child died in infancy.

  Mr. Polk avus again married in 1836, at Darwin, Ill., to Mary Oarr, who died in
1838. Two children blessed this union— Nancy Caroline and James R.

   In 1841 our subject was married to Miss Zillah Brinton, with whom he lived for
forty-two years. She died on the 3d of July, 1883, and was buried in Forest Prairie
township. Her age at the time of her death was seventy-five years.

   On the 14th of November, I884, Mr. Polk was married to Mrs. Mary C. Irwin, of
Indiana, his present wife. By her former marriage she had two daughters, both of
whom married, and each became a Mrs. Rowley.

   His third wife, Zillah, had one son that married Mr. Polk’s daughter, Nancy C.,
and they had six children, all of whom lived but one. Their father being a soldier,
their mother as well as themselves were left to Mr. Polk’s care; so that in his
later years he raised five children.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:
Illustrated Album of Biography
Meeker and McLeod Counties, Minnesota
1888


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