WOODLEY, M. B. - 1914

WOODLEY, LEVERTON, KINTIGH, CHURCH

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Date: 7/10/2009 at 03:52:39

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

M. B. WOODLEY.

M. B. Woodley, one of the active and progressive young farmers of Pilot township, operating an excellent property on section 24, is a native of this part of Cherokee county, born January 17, 1888. He is a son of Mahlon B. and Margaret (Leverton) Woodley, the former a native of Lycoming county, Pennsylvania, and the latter of Hardin county, Iowa. The father was born December 31, 1830, and remained in his native state during his boyhood days, after which he went to Indiana, where he engaged in farming for a number of years. He proved his loyalty to the Union by serving in her defence as a soldier in the Civil war, enrolling in 1862 and being discharged in 1865. He was sergeant of Company B, Fourth Indiana Cavalry. In 1870 he came west to Iowa and took up a claim in Pilot township, Cherokee county, upon which he resided until his death, which occurred in December, 1893. His wife survives him and resides upon the homestead. The father was a devout member of the Methodist Episcopal church and a stanch supported of the principles of the democratic party. In his family were eight children: Rosa, who lives at home; George, deceased; Blanche, the wife of Forest Kintigh, of Larrabee, Iowa; David, of Ida county, this state; Lola, the wife of Ross Church, of Alta, Iowa; M. B., of this review; Richard, at home; and Margaret, of Cherokee.

M. B. Woodley was reared in Pilot township, acquiring his education in the district schools. He has never left the homestead, which he now operates for his mother. He has greatly improved the property, carrying forward the work of its development in a progressive and able way and meeting with that success which always follows earnest and persistent labor. He is a democrat in his political views and fraternally is connected with the Modern Woodmen of America.