BROCKELSBY, W. H.

BROCKELSBY, COUSINS, MILLIGAN

Posted By: Nettie Mae
Date: 1/18/2003 at 13:34:15

SOURCE: "Biographical history of Crawford, Ida and Sac Counties, Iowa" Lewis Pub. Co., Chicago, 1893

W. H. BROCKELSBY, another one of the enterprising and successful farmers of
Crawford county, Iowa, resides on eighty acres of land in section 8, Hayes township.
Briefly given, the following is a sketch of his life:

W. H. Brockelsby was born in Lincolnshire, England, April 14, 1849. His parents,
William and Martha (Cousins) Brockelsby, were also both natives of that place. At the
age of fifteen he came to the United States and located in Clinton county, Iowa, where he
remained, engaged in farming, until 1872. He then came to Crawford county, and the
following year, 1878, located upon the land where he now lives. At that time this part of
the country was wild land and frequently deer and wolves were seen here. He has
developed eighty acres into a fine farm, the improvements on which are all first-class. His
house is 14x18 feet, a story and a half, with a one story L, 16x18 feet, and is located on a
natural building site, near which is an orchard and beautiful grove of maple trees. He is
engaged in general farming and stock-raising, having some thoroughbred registered
Poland-China hogs. He has a fine pond stocked with carp.

Mr. Brockelsby was married at Rock Island, Illinois, May 17, 1870, to Malinda
Milligan, a native of Pennsylvania. Her parents, Joseph and Margaret Milligan, now live
at Manilla, Iowa. Mr. and Mrs. Brockelsby have five children, viz,: Richard, Edward,
Winfred, Margaret and Elisa.

He is a Democrat and one of the wheel-horses of the party in the southeastern part
of the county. He has served as Township Clerk seven years and as Trustee eight years.
He is a prominent member of the Masonic fraternity, being Master of Diamond Lodge,
No, 422, and a member of Ark Chapter at Dunlap; is also a member of the K. of P. at
Denison, and the I. O. O. F. at Vail. He is a man of general information and of pleasing
address and is an entertaining speaker. Honorable in all his business dealings and always
frank and cordial with his fellow-men, he is one of the most popular citizens in the
township.