J. F. STRATTON

STRATTON, FOISTER

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Date: 5/23/2009 at 16:16:26

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.

J. F. STRATTON, retired surveyor; born in Erie Co., Penn., in 1801; moved to Michigan and located on the site of the city of Ann Arbor in March 1825; moved to Iowa in 1840; moved into Lee Co., Mo., in 1841; and explored the land of this county in the same year the treaty was concluded with the Indians; they gave up possession March 1, 1843; he moved in on the 3d of the same month and erected a hut, which he left in possession of his brother while he rturned to Missouri for his family, which he brought with him and permanently located on the property his residence now stands on, under the pre-emption act of Congress. The county seat was selected, and he commenced the survey in 1846, and completed it in 1847, and acquired the title to his homestead by that means. He married Laura Foister in 1837; she was born in Franklin Co., Mass., in 1803; they have two children living - Edward T. and Claudine Spooner; they had one son, Charlie F., killed in North Carolina at the last battle of the war; he belonged to the 6th I.V.I. He owns his homestead, worth $3,000.