HOMER, John F.

HOMER, TURNER, VANDERBERG

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Date: 12/9/2001 at 09:04:28

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF De Witt TWP.
From the book "The History of Clinton County Iowa" by L. P. Allen (1879) pgs 736-751

JOHN F. HOMER, hardware dealer, of the firm of Homer & Son, De Witt; born in Massachusetts in 1817; came to DeWitt in June, 1838; married, in 1842, Eleanor Turner, a native of New Brunswick; she died in 1850; March, 1853, he again married D. A. Vanderberg, a native of Canada; Mr. Homer had one child by first marriage-Ann, who died in 1859; have four children by second marriage-George F., Mary, Nellie and John F. Mr. Homer engaged in farming till 1855; has since been engaged in the mercantile business in De Witt; was Justice of the Peace in 1840, and Assessor in 1841.