NOBLE, Viret E. - 1914

NOBLE, POWELL

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Date: 7/6/2009 at 04:39:11

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

VIRET E. NOBLE.

Viret E. Noble, a representative and enterprising agriculturist of Liberty township, devotes his attention to the cultivation of a tract of eighty acres on section 26. He was brought here by his parents in 1876 and has remained on this farm continuously since with the exception of a period of two years spent on his homestead in South Dakota. His birth occurred in Iowa county, Wisconsin, on the 2d of June, 1874, his parents being Clinton and Johanna (Powell) Noble, the former a native of Indiana and the latter of Ohio. Clinton Noble, an agriculturist by occupation, removed to Wisconsin in an early day and there engaged in farming until 1876, when he came to Cherokee county, Iowa, purchasing one hundred and twenty acres of land on section 26, Liberty township. He improved the property and here devoted the remainder of his life to general agricultural pursuits, passing away in January, 1894. His widow still survives and makes her home with our subject. Their children were eight in number, namely: Luetta; Hattie; Lizzie; Mary; Viret E., of this review ; Bertha ; Pearl; and Belle, whose demise occurred in 1863.

Viret E. Noble, who was but two years of age when brought to this county by his parents, attended the district schools in the acquirement of an education and has always remained on the home farm with the exception of a period of two years spent on his homestead in South Dakota, which he still owns. He is now busily engaged in the operation of the home place of eighty acres on section 26, Liberty township, and annually gathers good crops which find a ready sale on the market. He follows the most modern and progressive methods in the conduct of his agricultural interests and is widely recognized as one of the substantial and esteemed citizens of the community.

In politics Mr. Noble is a stanch republican, loyally supporting the men and measures of that party. His religious faith is that of the Christian church, while fraternally he is identified with the Masons at Cherokee. That his life has been well spent is indicated by the fact that many of his warmest friends are those who have known him from his boyhood to the present.