Amos E. Hartson

HARTSON, HARVEY, SMITH

Posted By: Diane (email)
Date: 2/24/2002 at 21:07:13

Amos E. Hartson is a native of Pennsylvania, born in Luzerne county, March 26, 1843. When he was five years of age his parents moved to Wisconsin, and settled in Randolph, Columbia county. In 1859, he went to Woodford county, Illinois, and there was employed in farming one year. He went trapping two years on the Illinois river, and then returned to Wisconsin, where he engaged in the pineries two winters. In the spring and fall he drove rafts down the Wisconsin and Mississippi rivers, as far as Rock Island.
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The years of 1863-64, he made his home with his father, who still lives on his original claim. In 1865, he came to Iowa, and bought land in Madison township, on section 20. He now has 320 acres, and lives on section 17. He married, in 1876, Samantha, daughter of Solomon Harvey, and widow of Samuel Smith. They have two children – Bert and Minnie Belle.
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Source: History of Butler and Bremer Counties, Iowa
Union Publishing Co., Springfield, IL, 1883
Page: 631