BENJAMIN P. MELLS

MELLS, SHIPMAN

Posted By: Mona Sarratt Knight (email)
Date: 5/23/2009 at 13:08:24

The History of Appanoose County, Iowa, Containing A History of the County, its Cities, Towns, etc., A Biographical Directory of Citizens, War Records of its Volunteers in the late Rebellion, General and Local Statistics, Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men, History of the Northwest, History of Iowa, Map of Appanoose County, Constitution of the United States, Miscellaneous Matters, etc.; illustrated; Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1878.

BENJAMIN P. MELLS, farmer, born in Lincolnshire, England, in 1827 came to this country and located in this county in 1858. Married Mrs. Sarah Shipman in 1863; she was born in Belmont Co., Ohio; they have two children - Benjamin P. and Sarah E. Mrs. Mells has three children, being fruits of a former marriage, viz., Nora L., Charles W. and Anna R. Shipman. They are members of the M. E. Church. He is a member of the Christian Church; Republican. Owns 543 1/2 acres of land on Secs. 29, 31, and 32 in Bellair Tp., this county, valued at $25 per acre and other property in this city, making in all about $25,000. He is engaged in breeding graded stock, sheep, etc.