M. B. Speedy

SPEEDY, COATS

Posted By: Diane Wilson (email)
Date: 5/23/2004 at 22:38:11

M. B. Speedy was born in Jefferson county, Ohio, March 18, 1838, where he resided until eighteen years of age; then came to Iowa, and first stopped at Shell Rock.
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In December, 1864, he married Miss A. E. Coats. He followed farming in Shell Rock until 1870. He then carried on a drug and grocery business at Shell Rock until 1878, since which time he has resided in Jefferson township, and now owns a fine farm of 170 acres. The children are – Oscar, Annette, Eva, Ethel and Blanche.
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Source: History of Butler and Bremer Counties, Iowa
Union Publishing Co., Springfield, IL, 1883
Page 620