ARTIS, Lewis

ARTIS, HEDDEN

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Date: 10/16/2001 at 21:02:03

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF ORANGE TWP. (Pgs 758-764)
From the book "The History of Clinton County Iowa" by L. P. Allen (1879)

LEWIS ARTIS, retired farmer; P. O. Grand Mound; was born in Fayette Co., Penn., in 1826. He married, in 1851, Mary A. Hedden, also a native of Pennsylvania. Mr. Artis came to De Witt in 1856; remained one year, then removed to Orange Township; he purchased the farm which he now owns, in 1866; he came to Grand Mound in 1871; kept hotel, the "Phoenix House," for five years; has three children—George W., Sarah L. and Celestia B.