William VanVlack

VANVLACK, OLMSTEAD

Posted By: Diane Wilson (email)
Date: 5/26/2004 at 14:05:48

William Van Vlack entered the land he now lives on in 1857, but did not become a resident of the county until 1860. He first resided on section 36, but only temporarily, as he at once commenced improving his land. In 1862 he settled on the same, and made farming his business until 1869, when he removed to New Hartford, and for two years dealt in agricultural implements, at the end of which time he again returned to his farm.
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Mr. Van Vlack was born in Albany county, new York, in 1836. He was left fatherless at the age of fourteen years. At the age of nineteen he emigrated to Illinois, and resided in DeKalb county until he came to Iowa. In 1857 he married Miss Rebecca Olmstead, a native of New York. They now have five children – Charles, Eugene and Howell, (twins), Dwight, and Oliver Judd.
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Source: History of Butler and Bremer Counties, Iowa
Union Publishing Co., Springfield, IL, 1883
Page 621