Duncan Grant

GRANT, SAMPSON

Posted By: County Coordinator (email)
Date: 11/12/2006 at 12:13:34

Duncan Grant, farmer, Sec 27, P O Prairie Hill, was born in Scotland, November 30, 1846, and when an infant was brought by his parents to the United States, locating in Pennsylvania, he moved to Wisconsin in 1854, and was there raised and educated in the common schools, in the fall of 1868 he came to Iowa and located near where he now resides, and in January 1880, came upon his present farm of eighty acres, in 1879 he took a trip through the Territories with a view of settling, but found no better state then Iowa, October 28, 1868 he married Miss Margaret Sampson, a native of Scotland, they have two children: Elizabeth and James R, both living

1880 Boone Co History Book