PRUYN, David J.

PRUYN

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Date: 12/9/2001 at 09:38:36

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

DAVID J. PRUYN, farmer; Sec. 24; P.O. De Witt; born in Herkimer Co., N. Y., in 1831; his parents, Henry D. and Mary A. Pruyn, removed to Oswego Co. about 1834, and to Ellisburg, Jefferson Co., in 1845; he went to New York City in 1858. He served in the army as Assistant Quartermaster and Quartermaster during the war. He resided in Raleigh, N. C., from the close of the rebellion till 1870, when he returned to New York City; he came to Clinton Co. in 1872, and located on his farm, which he had purchased in 1867. His father, born in 1800, and his mother, born in 1804, reside with him.