E. D. Marquand

MARQUAND, BARKELEW, DUNHAM, GILBERT, WINSHIP, COPELAND

Posted By: Diane Wilson (email)
Date: 7/29/2002 at 20:34:33

E. D. Marquand came to this county in 1855, and in June of said year entered 240 acres of land located on sections 25, Jackson, and 30, Butler townships. He then went back to Ohio and the next year brought his family west and has since resided on the land he first entered. Mr. Marquand organized the township he now lives in and named it Jackson because the township he lived in in Ohio was known by that name, and at the first general election he cast the first and only republican ballot in the township.
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Mr. Marquand was born in Muskingum county, Ohio, June 28th, 1816. His parents, Charles E. and Nancy Marquand, were natives of France who came to the United States in their youth. He was born on a farm and subsequently was engaged in general merchandise for a period of six years. June 28, 1838, he married Miss Mary E. Barkelew, daughter of Stephen and Mary E. (Dunham) Barkelew. She was born in New Jersey in 1821. They have had twelve children, nine now living – Henriette now Mrs. M. B. Gilbert; Mary E. now Mrs. Jas. W. Winship; Chas. H., Theodore F., Louisa, now Mrs. Geo. R. Copeland; Stephen E., E. D., William and Ellsworth.
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Source: History of Butler and Bremer Counties, Iowa
Union Publishing Co., Springfield, IL, 1883
Page 606