F. D. Mabee

MABEE, TUCK

Posted By: Diane Wilson (email)
Date: 7/29/2002 at 20:30:49

F. D. Mabee, in 1872, opened a restaurant, and is still in the business. He is numbered among the earliest settlers of Greene, locating here in March, 1872. He bought his building, and engaged in his present occupation at that time. Mr. Mabee was born in Canada West, in 1836.
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He removed to Henderson county, Illinois, in 1860, where he engaged in the insurance business. He was married there to Miss Sarah Tuck, a native of New Hampshire.
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He has been a resident of Iowa since 1865, when he located at Independence, and engaged in farming, coming here, as before stated, in 1872. Mr. and Mrs. Mabee have five children – Mary Abbie, Charles, Fred, Ella and Myrtle.
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Source: History of Butler and Bremer Counties, Iowa
Union Publishing Co., Springfield, IL, 1883
Page 562