DYSLIN, L. H. - 1914

DYSLIN, WILCOX, FARR, BURGESS

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HISTORY OF
Cherokee County
IOWA
VOLUME II
ILLUSTRATED
CHICAGO
THE S. J. CLARKE PUBLISHING COMPANY
1914
by Thomas McCulla

L. H. DYSLIN.

L. H. Dyslin, a progressive and prosperous farmer of Cherokee county, owning one hundred acres of land on section 11, Pitcher township, was born near Lanark, Carroll county, Illinois, on November 20, 1865. He is a son of Clark and Eugenia (Wilcox) Dyslin, natives of New York state, who moved to Illinois in 1864 and settled in Carroll county, near Lanark. There the father engaged in agricultural pursuits for many years, retiring from active life in 1903. Thereafter he made his home in Lanark until the death of his wife in 1906, since which time he has lived with the subject of this review. In his family were three children : L. H., of this sketch; Ursula, the deceased wife of Theodore Wilkins, of Lanark, Illinois; and Walter, of Freeport, Illinois.

L. H. Dyslin remained at home until he was twenty-one years of age and then moved to Iowa, settling in Cherokee county, where he worked as a farm laborer for four years. At the end of that time he rented land and in 1895 purchased one hundred acres lying on section 11, Pitcher township. This is a highly improved farm, well equipped in every particular, and reflects everywhere the care and supervision which the owner bestows upon it.

On March 17, 1892, Mr. Dyslin married Miss May Farr, a native of Minnesota and a daughter of James Farr, who came to Iowa in 1881, passing away in this state. In his family were four children: A. C, of Parker, South Dakota; May, the wife of the subject of this review; Lottie B., of Colorado; and Kittie, the deceased wife of J. C. Burgess. Mr. and Mrs. Dyslin became the parents of six children: Hazel, who was born in 1895 and who is a graduate of the high school; Eugenia, who was born in 1899; James, twin to Eugenia, who died at the age of two; Charley, born in 1901; Marvel, born in 1903; and Chester, born in 1906. The family are members of the Methodist Episcopal church.

Mr. Dyslin gives his political allegiance to the republican party and has served as a member of the school board, although he is not active as an office seeker. He has filled all of the chairs in the local lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and is well known in the affairs of that organization. A man of industry, enterprise and sagacity, he has carefully managed his business interests, so that he is today one of the leading agriculturists of Cherokee county.