J. TASKER

TASKER, SCELLINGER

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Date: 2/25/2011 at 00:44:05

1883 History of Franklin and Cerro Gordo Counties, Iowa

J. TASKER

J. Tasker, dealer in boots and shoes, established his present business at Clear Lake in 1869, prior to any similar enterprise in the vicinity. He was born in England in 1829, and learned the details of the shoemaker's craft in Sheffield. Some years before he reached his majority an elder brother came to America, and settled at Council Hill, Ill. He is a clergyman by profession.

When, Mr. Tasker, of this sketch, was twenty-one years of age, the family started to establish a home in this country, leaving behind one son, who still lives at Sheffield. The purpose of their emigration was never accomplished, as the father, mother and eldest daughter died of cholera while en route from New Orleans. The remaining children settled at Council Hill. Mr. Tasker went, after a few years, to Wisconsin, residing in Grant, and subsequently in Crawford counties.

He married Cordelia M. Scellinger, a native of New York. Two of five children are still living-Josephine and Newell. Two children died in infancy. Tina, an estimable young lady, died March 30, 1883, aged nearly twenty-three years. She was universally beloved, and her name and memory are perpetuated in the style of Tina lodge of the Order of Rebecca, at Clear Lake.

SOURCE: History of Franklin and Cerro Gordo Counties, Iowa. p. 795. Union Publishing Co. Springfield IL. 1883.

Transcription by Susan Steveson