Daniel Mather

MATHER, POISAL, UNDERWOOD, NELSON, FRANCIS, ROSZELL

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Date: 7/29/2002 at 20:37:16

Daniel Mather, upon his arrival in this county in October, 1854, settled in Clarksville, where he purchased land on section 18, from G. W. Poisal; upon this he platted a portion of the town, which is now the south part of Clarksville. He secured the contract for the carpenter work of the court house, the consideration being $1,500. Changes in the plan were afterward adopted, and the contract price changed to $2,750. Mr. Mather was born in Oswego county, New York, September 12, 1796; was brought up on a farm, also learned the carpenter trade, which he followed in his native State until 1825. During this time in 1820 he married Miss Roxa Underwood.
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In 1825 he moved to Warren county, Pennsylvania, where he remained nineteen years, then removed to Boone county, Illinois. In October, 1854 he came to Clarksville, Iowa. His wife died in 1856, leaving four children – Maria, now Mrs. Charles Nelson; Charles, of Dayton township, Stephen, who resides in Tennessee, and Milo, now in Kansas. Mr. Mather was afterwards married to Mrs. Sally V. Francis; she had one child from her first marriage – Mary, now the wife of Captain C. A. Roszell.
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Source: History of Butler and Bremer Counties, Iowa
Union Publishing Co., Springfield, IL, 1883
Page 502