TOWNSEND, James E.

TOWNSEND, HARRISON

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Date: 12/9/2001 at 10:19:07

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

JAMES E. TOWNSEND, proprietor of flour and custom mill, De Witt; is a son of Mr. E. R. Townsend; born in Dutchess Co., N. Y., in 1849, His mill, which is driven by steam power, he built in 1875, at a cost of $15,000. It has three runs of buhrs for grinding about four hundred and fifty bushels in eleven hours. He married, in 1873, Lydia Harrison, a native of Bridgeport, Ohio; they have one child-Edwin-born in August, 1875.