WEST, Edward

WEST, PHILLIPS, VOLLMER, BARRE, MCCULLOCH

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Date: 12/9/2001 at 10:34:13

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

EDWARD WEST, farmer, Sec. 23, P.O. De Witt; born in Fayette Co., Penn., in 1803. He married Miss Sarah Phillips in 1828; they came to Clinton Co. in 1843; in 1852, Mr. West bought a quarter section of school land, south of De Witt, which he sold the next year, and entered the farm where he now lives. He has five children-Mrs. Ellen Vollmer, Mrs. Sarah Barre, William H. H., Daniel and Mrs. Rachel McCulloch.