HARRINGTON, Lineous

HARRINGTON, NELSON, WILLIE, HINKLEY, TAYLOR, GOLD, TOLLCOT, BAILEY, COOK

Posted By: Nettie Mae
Date: 1/18/2003 at 23:52:31

Source: The 1901 Biographical Record of Clinton Co., Iowa, Illustrated published: Chicago : S. J. Clarke Pub. Co., 1901.

LINEOUS HARRINGTON.

One of the most prosperous farmers and influential citizens of Bloomfield township is the gentleman whose name introduces this review. He was born on the 12th of December, 1851, in New York, of which state his parents, LeRoy K. and Esther Maria (Nelson) Harrington, were also natives. While living in the east the father worked at the copper’s trade, and also engaged in farming. In 1854 he brought his family to Iowa, traveling by train to Buffalo and there took a boat for Milwaukee, whence he came to this country in a covered wagon. In connection with his brother, D. J. Harrington, he bought a farm of eighty acres, which they operated in partnership for three years. He then sold his interest in the place and rented a farm for a couple of years. At the end of that time he purchased a farm in Bloomfield township in the spring of 1863, and later added to it until he had two hundred acres, which he successfully operated until 1883, when he sold the place to John Allison, who still occupies it. Removing to Delmar, he lived retired until his death, which occurred in 1893. The mother of our subject had departed this life in 1881, and the remains of both were interred in the Delmar cemetery. In 1882 the father married Sarah Willie, who died in the spring in 1899. By his first union he had seven children namely: Rebecca, wife of W. C. Hinkley, of Lawrence, Kansas; Lineous, our subject; Arthur, who died when about twenty-seven years of age’ Morris, who died at the age of four months.; Elsworth, who married Philey Taylor, and resides at Big Stone, South Dakota; Alice, wife of John Gold, of Big Stone; and Clayton, who married Jennie Tollcot, and makes his home at Big Stone.

Lineous Harrington spent the day of his boyhood and youth in much the usual manner of farmer boys, and his education was acquired in the district schools of Delmar. He gave his father the benefit of his labors until his marriage, which was celebrated in Bloomfield township, December 12, 1875, Miss Alice Bailey becoming his wife. She was born in Jackson county, Iowa, on the 24th of April, 1855, and is a daughter of O. C. Bailey, whose sketch appears on another page of this volume. They have one daughter, Esther M., who was born October 1, 1877, and is now the wife of Silas Cook, native of Jackson County, Iowa. The reside with our subject and have four children, namely: Clarence, born July 25, 1896; Myrtle, born December 2, 1898; and unnamed child; and unnamed twins, born April 2, 1901.

For two years after this marriage Mr. Harrington remained on his father’s farm, and then purchased eighty acres on section twenty-one, Bloomfield township, to which he has added as his financial resources have increased, until he now has two hundred and ninety acres of rich and arable land under a high state of cultivation. He raises a high grade of stock for market, and in all his undertakings is meeting with well-deserved success, as he is one of the enterprising and energetic farmers of his community, and a man whose word is considered as good as his bond. He has never had time nor inclination for public office, preferring to give his undivided attention to his business interests. Politically he is identified with the Republication party, an religiously is a member of the Methodist church at Delmar, of which he is one of the trustees.