Perry Long

LONG, ENGLE

Posted By: Diane (email)
Date: 3/24/2002 at 23:11:16

Perry Long, a pioneer settler in Fillmore county, Minnesota, was born in Somerset county, Pennsylvania, February 5, 1827. In 1840 he moved to Alleghany county, Maryland, and in 1855 he came west to seek a home, and settled in the township of Preston, Fillmore county, Minnesota, where he took government land one mile south of the county seat. He improved the land, built a house, and lived there until 1869, when he sold out and came to Iowa. He bought 340 acres of land in Madison township, on section 15, where he built a house. In 1872 he sold this farm, and bought 160 acres on section 20. He has improved this land. He married, in 1849, Miss Savilla Engle. They have seven children living – Norman, Simon, Cornelia, Marshall, Melissa, Laura, and Alvin.
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Source: History of Butler and Bremer Counties, Iowa
Union Publishing Co., Springfield, IL, 1883
Page 632