Jarvis E. Ferguson

FERGUSON, EDDY, MASON

Posted By: Diane (email)
Date: 2/24/2002 at 19:59:14

Jarvis E. Ferguson resides on section 22, which he purchased of J. Perrin in the spring of 1878. A part of his farm was first settled by Z. H. Eddy. Mr. Ferguson was born in Lenawee county, Michigan, in 1837. His father, Joseph F. Ferguson, was a native of Wayne county, New York, and emigrated to Michigan in 1832. Mr. Ferguson first came to Dayton township in 1864, where he resided but two years when he returned to Michigan. In the spring of 1873 he came again to Iowa, and located in Union township, Floyd county, settling in Dayton township in 1878. His farm contains 80 acres. Mrs. Ferguson was formerly Miss Josephine Mason, daughter of Austin Mason, a native of the State of New York, but an early settler of Michigan.
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Source: History of Butler and Bremer Counties, Iowa
Union Publishing Co., Springfield, IL, 1883
Page 586-587