FERGUSON, Ephraim

FERGUSON, FULLER, WARREN

Posted By: Sharon R Becker (email)
Date: 1/18/2014 at 10:31:34

Biography ~ Ephraim Ferguson

"Biographical and Historical Record of
Ringgold and Decatur Counties, Iowa"
(Lewis Publishing Company (1887)), p. 594:

EPHRAIM FERGUSON, one of Fayette Township’s best agriculturists, and an active and enterprising citizen, was born in Chenango County, New York, April 2, 1824, the youngest child of HENRY and SARAH FERGUSON, who were born and reared in the State of Vermont. He was reared on a farm in Broome County, New York, remaining with his parents till their death, the father dying July 12, 1847, at the age of eighty years, and the mother March 12, 1851, aged seventy-three years. The year mother’s death, our subject went to California via the Panama route, and for four-teen years followed farming and mining turned to Broome County, New York, where he was married, July 18, 1868, to Miss HARRIET FULLER, who was born in New York, September 20, 1843, a daughter of ALVIN, have one son – HERBERT born in Broome County, October 12, 1869. After his marriage Mr. FERGUSON settled on a farm in Broome County, where he live till he came to Decatur County, Iowa, June 30, 1870. Here he bought 160 acres of land located in Fayette where he resides, and the rest of his land on section 11. But one acre of this land has been broken, and a small house erected when Mr. FERGUSON took possession. He has now his land under fine cultivation, and erected good residence and farm buildings, which are protected by a fine grove grown from seed planted by him-self. He has on his land a fine orchard of 300 trees which furnish an abundance of fruit, and the entire surroundings of his place betoken the care and thrift of the owner. In his political views Mr. FERGUSON affiliates with the Democratic party. His parents reared a family of thirteen children, eight sons and five daughters, to maturity, of whom six are yet living – Mrs. SARAH WARREN, of Cortland County, New York; ELIHAH, living in California; HENRY, of Bloomington Township, this county, and EPHRAIM, the subject of this sketch. The eldest brother, JAMES settled on section 1, of Fayette Township, where he died in the fall of 1870, leaving two sons and four daughters.

Transcribed by Sara LeFleur, Decatur County Historial Society Musuem, January of 2014