Waugh, Edward F.

WAUGH, BOYD, WILSON, IRWIN, KEISER, SMITH, BARKLEY, CAREY, PULCIFER, POOL, HILL

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Date: 4/15/2003 at 18:52:18

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

EDWARD F. WAUGH.

Is among the well-to-do citizens and representative farmers of Brookfield township, who owns and operates a well-improved farm of three hundred and twenty acres, and is also successfully engaged in stock raising. He is a native of Pennsylvania, born in Mercer county on the 25th of April, 1833, and is a son of Isaac and Tamzine (Boyd) Waugh, both natives of the Emerald Isle. About 1831 his parents came to America and settled in Mercer county, Pennsylvania, where they made their home for several years. They then followed their children to Jackson county, Iowa, and the father became an officer in the Post Guard there. His death occurred in Maquoketa in 1879. His wife long survived him, dying in 1892, at the advanced age of ninety-three years. In their family were eleven children, two of whom died in infancy, and only seven are now living, namely: William R., a resident of Calhoun county, Iowa; Eliza, widow of N. Wilson, and a resident of Maquoketa; Mary, wife of William Irwin, of Odebolt, Iowa; James H., a resident citizen of Maquoketa; Edward F., our subject; Erastus Charles, a retired farmer of Nebraska; and Rebecca Jane, wife of George B. Keiser, of Pennsylvania; John Richard was killed in the Civil war.

Mr. Waugh, of this review, obtained his early education in the common schools of his native state, and later attended Allegheny College, in Meadville, Pennsylvania. Having acquired a good education, he came west with a brother and engaged in teaching in the old Hickory Grove school-house, Jackson county, Iowa, for fourteen months. Later he taught in Bloomfield township, this county, one term, and then returned to Jackson county, where he taught two terms.

In 1861 Mr. Waugh led to the marriage altar Miss Lydia Smith, who was born in Essex county, New York, January 23, 1843, and is a daughter of Isaac and Caroline Smith. On first coming to Iowa in 1852 her family settled in Jackson county, but the father subsequently entered land in Brookfield township, Clinton county, where he continued to live, his time and attention being devoted to farming until his death, which occurred in 1890. His wife died in 1896. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Waugh were born fifteen children: Lester, who married Etta Barkley, and now lives in Woodbury county, Iowa; Vernon, who wedded Mary Carey, and resides in Greeley county, Nebraska; Sherman, deceased; Arthur W., who married Dora Pulcifer, and makes his home in El Paso county, Colorado; John Clinton, who married Bertha Pulcifer, and lives on a cattle ranch in the same county; Gertie, wife of James Pool, of Colorado Springs, Colorado; Allie, wife of Rowland Hill, of Brookfield township, this county; Birt and Charles, both at home; Anna, who is now attending school in Dixon, Illinois; Bird, Edmund F. and Elbert, all at home; and Etta and Mary, both deceased.

After his marriage Mr. Waugh worked at the wagonmaker’s trade in Maquoketa for twelve years, and then removed to his present farm in Brookfield township, Clinton county, on which he has made all of the improvements. His life has been one of industry, and to his capable management and sound judgment may be attributed his success, as he never received any outside aid. The Republican party has always found in him a stanch supporter of its principles and he has efficiently served in several township offices. He is well known and highly respected.