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Author: Arthur P. Rose (1908)

  JAMES NEFF, Bloom township farmer, was born at Monroe Falls, Summit county,

Ohio, Nov. 5, 1865, the son of John and Eliza (Paulus) Neff, of Pennsylvania

Dutch descent. Both parents were natives of Ohio, the father having been born

Jan. 22, 1829, in Portage county, the mother, Aug. 10, 1836, in Summit county.

The former died near Sibley, Iowa, Feb. 12, 1883; the latter lives at Ashton,

Iowa. John Neff's parents, Conrad and Mary A. (Cline) Neff, were natives of

Pennsylvania. Mrs. Neff's parents were Jacob Paulus and Annie (Brocher) Paulus,

natives of Pennsylvania.



  In 1870 the family moved from Ohio to Hardin county, Iowa, and the next year

to near the site of the present town of Ashton, in Osceola county, becoming

pioneers of that county. On the Osceola county farm James Neff was reared and in

the country schools of that county he was educated. After his father's death in

1883 he farmed the home place for his mother and was so engaged until 1898. In

the fall of that year he moved to his present farm-the northwest quarter of

section 5, Bloom, township, which his mother had bought, and there he has since

made his home.



  Mr. Neff was married at Sibley, Iowa, March 31, 1892, to Ella Kimball, who was

born Aug. 3, 1859. She is a daughter of Isaac and Clarissa (Weston) Kimball. Her

father resides with her daughter. The mother was born in Rockford, Ill., July 5,

1846, and died at Sibley, Iowa, July 6, 1891. To Mr. and Mrs. Neff have been

born two children: Charles, born June 21, 1893; Harold, born Nov. 6, 1900.



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AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF NOBLES COUNTY

MINNESOTA

BY

ARTHUR P. ROSE



NORTHERN HISTORY PUBLISHING COMPANY 



WORTHINGTON, MINNESOTA 

PUBLISHERS

1908

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