Jooseph Linn

LINN, MOGART

Posted By: Diane (email)
Date: 3/23/2002 at 22:59:19

Joseph Linn was born in Franklin county, Penn., July 28, 1834. He received his education at a district school, three miles from the farm. He was married in 1856 to Miss Mary Mogart. They went to St. Louis by water then took a wagon for Springfield, Ill., where they arrived with just sixty-five cents. He there found employment farming. His wife died there in 1859, aged 20 years and 5 months. His second wife was Miss Rachel Linn, whom he married February 26, 1861. In April, 1861, he enlisted at the first call for troops in the Forty-first Illinois, Company I, and participated in the battle of Fort Donelson. Soon after that he was sent back on account of disability and was appointed Provost Marshal at Camp Butler, and served until Jan. 1, 1864, when he started for Iowa overland, taking his stock with him; he was thirteen days on the way. He located on section 1, Monroe township.
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In 1874 he bought the northwest quarter of section 2. In 1877 he built his present home. His first wife had two children, the first – Martha Ellen – died in infancy. Andrew J. died August 26, 1878, in his nineteenth year. His present wife has been the mother of eight children, four of them are now living – Florence M., Mabel Edith, Joseph J. and Mary E.
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Source: History of Butler and Bremer Counties, Iowa
Union Publishing Co., Springfield, IL, 1883
Pages 642-643