Frank Garroutte

GARROUTTE, MORSMON, MERRYMAN, WOLBERT

Posted By: Marthann Kohl-Fuhs (email)
Date: 4/2/2009 at 08:47:02

FRANK GARROUTTE, a most thorough and enterprising farmer of Douglas Township, was born in Brown County, Ohio, near Fayetteville, November 28, 1851. He is a son of John W. Garroutte, who is a native of Ohio, and a farmer and carpenter by vocation. His mother was a Miss Morsmon, also a native of Ohio, and a daughter of Levi and Rachel Morsmon. The family of Garrouttes are of French extraction. After his marriage John W. Garroutte settled in Brown County, Ohio. He and his wife are the parents of two children, boys Birk and Frank, both of whom are living. Frank Garroutte obtained his education in the district school, which offered very limited advantages at that early day. He was trained to the occupation of a farmer, and that his training was excellent is shown by the model condition of his farm today. When he was two years old his parents removed to Dallas County, Iowa, where his father died two years afterward. His mother and brother still reside in Dallas County, Iowa. He continued to live with them until fifteen years of age. He was united in marriage, June 6, 1880, to Miss Jennie Merryman, of Dallas County, Iowa, a daughter of Henry and Christina (Wolbert) Merryman, natives of Virginia and Pennsylvania respectively. The Merrymans were descendants of a Scotch family, and the Wolberts were of English ancestry. Soon after his marriage Mr. Garroutte removed to Audubon County, and settled on a farm in Leroy Township. He remained there two years, devoting his time to the improvement and cultivation of his farm, which he sold to George C. Cook. His present farm, which is known as the Marion farm, is located in Douglas Township, and contains 160 acres of choice, fertile land, moderately improved. It is well stocked, and the greater part is seeded down to pasture. Mr. Garroutte rents other land, which he cultivates in addition to his own. Five children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Garroutte. Two are living Dora and Emery. Katie, Barbara and Horace were stricken down in 1888 by that dread disease, diphtheria.

1889 BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY OF
SHELBY AND AUDUBON COUNTIES, IOWA
W. S. DUNBAR & CO., PUBLISHERS
113 ADAMS STREET, CHICAGO

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