KIRTLEY, James W.

KIRTLEY, GUTH

Posted By: Administrator
Date: 12/9/2001 at 09:11:15

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

JAMES W. KIRTLEY, farmer, Sec. 31; P.O. De Witt; born in Westmoreland Co., Va., June 15, 1811; he removed to Marion Co.,. Ill., in 1831; to Galena, Ill., in 1832; then to Dubuque; he came to Clinton Co. in 1836, and entered a claim near De Witt; he has resided in Clinton Co. since that time, a period of forty-three years. He married, in 1858, Dora Guth; they have six Sons and four daughters.