THOMAS S. H. DOUGHERTY

DOUGHERTY

Posted By: Jake Tornholm (email)
Date: 4/20/2020 at 13:38:42

THOMAS S. H. DOUGHERTY, a farmer and stock-raiser of section 10, Union township, Adams county, and also president of the Iowa State Savings Bank of Creston, was born in Juniata county, Pennsylvania, October 22, 1842, the son of Matthew (deceased) and Susan (Minary) Dougherty, natives of Pennsylvania. The parents had thirteen children, ten of whom are now living, namely: Joseph, John, Thomas, Matthias, Lemuel, Wilson, Sarah, Susan, Mary and Martha. One son, William, died when fifty years of age.

The subject of this sketch was reared on a farm and received a common-school education,
after which he taught school a few years in Pennsylvania and Illinois. He served three months in the late war, in the Pennsylvania State Militia. He went to Sangamon county, Illinois, in the spring of 1863, where he taught school a few years in that and Logan county, after which he settled on a farm in Putnam county, Illinois, where he remained until the spring of 1875. In that year he came to this county and settled on his present farm of 605 acres, where he has made
all the improvements, there being then but a little log hut and a few willow sprouts. He raises graded short horns, full blooded Clydesdale and English Shires, and also Poland-Chinas. Mr. Dougherty is now president of the State Savings Bank at Creston.

He was married, September 4, 1866, to Isabella Barr, a daughter of Jeremiah and Abigail (Wise) Barr, of Cromwell, Iowa. Her parents had eight children: Henry, Madison H., Thornton N. (deceased), Hannah M., Isabella, Lawrence C. and two who died in infancy. Mr. and Mrs. Dougherty have four children: Dora E., Ernest N., Estella M. and Evelyn Isabelle. Dora married
Adelbert F. Bayles, a merchant of Cromwell, Iowa; Ernest is a graduate of the business and normal department of Shenandoah College, Shenandoah, Iowa. He is engaged in the hardware business in Creston. Mr. Dougherty has been Justice of the Peace, Town Clerk, School Clerk, School Treasurer several years, and is now president of the Farmers’ Mutual Insurance Company of Adams county. He was one of the organizers of that company, which now has a membership of over 700. They are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church of
Cromwell.