WILLIAM CROW

CROW, RIGGS

Posted By: Mona Sarratt Knight (email)
Date: 6/19/2009 at 06:36:00

Source: 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.

WILLIAM CROW, farmer, Sec. 3, P.O. Unionville; born in Jefferson Co., Tenn., in 1819; removed to Farmington, Lee Co., Iowa, in 1842; thence to this county in 1843. He owns ninety acres of land, valued at $25 per acre. Married Miss Melinda Riggs in 1839; she was born in Granger Co., Tenn, in 1822; they have seven children - John, J.N., William, Samuel, Sarah J., Addie and Franklin. Republican. She is a member of the M.E. Church. Has held the offices of Constable, Justice of the Peace, Trustee and County Supervisor; member of the A.F.&A.M., 119; Unionville. Mr. C. is practicing law in his own immediate vicinity; after having studied and acquired all the knowledge possible within himself, he was admitted to the bar in 1870; as the date of his coming will show, he was among the very earliest settlers; there were but seven voters in the county when he came; he voted the first Whig ticket voted in the county, the occasion being the running of Geo. T. White, the present Senator, then running for Territorial Delegate for Congress.