HITE, John

HITE, BRUNDAGE

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Date: 10/16/2001 at 21:21:29

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

JOHN HITE, farmer and carpenter; P. O. Grand Mound; born in Canada West June 15, 1821; his parents, John and Mary Hite, removed to York (now Toronto), Canada, about 1830; his father was a native of Pennsylvania; his mother was born in Canada. Mr. Hite came to Grand Mound Oct. 9, 1865; he worked at the trade of carpenter for some years; he built the house where he now lives, then the fourth dwelling-house in town; he owns a farm in Sec. 17, Orange Township. He married, in 1846, Phebe J. Brundage, of Canada; have one daughter—Sarah, born in 1847.