Nathan Linn

LINN, DANIELS

Posted By: Diane (email)
Date: 3/23/2002 at 22:58:54

Nathan Linn, an early settler in Butler county, was born in Washington county, Maryland, September 26, 1819. When but two years of age his parents emigrated to Knox county, Ohio, where he received his education in the district schools. In 1851 he removed to Illinois and bought a farm near Oxford, Henry county, where he lived until 1854, when he sold his land and started for Iowa. He spent the winter in Carpenter’s Grove, and in the spring went to Ripley, entered a claim and went to work breaking; but soon finding that the land overflowed, he left it and went to Monroe, where he took a claim on section 10 and erected a log house. He lived there until 1879, when he sold out and removed to Jefferson, where he bought a farm on section 31, on which he now resides.
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In 1840 he married Miss Sophia Daniels. They were blessed with six children – Millison A., Rachel, William P., Harriet, Mary and Charlotte. Mrs. Linn was born in Knox county, Ohio, September 5, 1821, and died February 27, 1876, while visiting her daughter in Illinois. Millison A., the oldest child, was born in Knox county, Ohio, June 15, 1841, and died in Henry county, Illinois, in February, 1881.
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Source: History of Butler and Bremer Counties, Iowa
Union Publishing Co., Springfield, IL, 1883
Pages 620-621