W. E. SARGENT

SARGENT, MCGOWAN

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Date: 5/23/2009 at 15:55:56

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.

W. E. SARGENT, merchant; born in Bracken Co., Ky., 1815; moved to Brown Co., Ohio, where he married Miss Sarah A. McGowan, 1833; she was born in Mason Co., Ky. He then moved to Marion Co., Ind., city of Indianapolis, in 1845, and to Fairfield Co., Iowa, in 1850; went to California in 1863, and returned and located in this city in 1867, when he went into the mercantile business. They have three children - Thomas, William A. and Eliza J. All members of the Baptist Church; he is Republican. He owns his residence and other property, valued at $5,000. He has been in the mercantile business since 1836; he has been a prominent member of the Masonic Order since 1850.