Silas Needham

NEEDHAM, DUNNING

Posted By: Diane Wilson (email)
Date: 7/29/2002 at 21:00:43

Silas Needham resides on section 15. He is a brother of B. C. Needham, and came to the township at the same time. He was born in Essex county, New York, in 1817; was brought up in Addison county, Vermont; married Susan Dunning, a daughter of Loan Dunning. He settled on his present farm the same year he came to the county – 1856. The log house, which was his first residence here, was the first dwelling on the prairie, and the first election held in the township was held at that house. Mr. Needham has four children – Edward E., Melville S., Leslie B., and Lillian. His farm contains 120 acres.
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Source: History of Butler and Bremer Counties, Iowa
Union Publishing Co., Springfield, IL, 1883
Page 678