VARGA, Francis

VARGA, EVANS, FRAZIER

Posted By: Sharon R Becker (email)
Date: 2/16/2014 at 00:19:23

Biography ~ Francis Varga

"Biographical and Historical Record of
Ringgold and Decatur Counties, Iowa"
(Lewis Publishing Company (1887)), p. 555:

FRANCIS VARGA is a native of Hungary, Europe, where he was reared to manhood, and in his native country practiced law, and became a prominent county officer. He immigrated to America in 1851, settling in Decatur County, Iowa, and has since been identified with the growth and development of the county, becoming a large landholder. Toward the close of the war of the Rebellion he was elected county clerk, which office he filled efficiently for two years. A few years later he was elected to the office of county treasurer, in which capacity he served three terms of two years each, with credit to himself, and to the entire satisfacton. He is at present at the head of the only Abstract of Titles office in Decatur County, and is [an] agent of the Iowa Loan and Trust Company, and vor various insurance companies, being ably assisted in his business by his worthy son, Stephen, who is an attorney-a-law. Both are among the highly respected citizens of the country, and by their fair and honorable dealings have gained the confidence of all with whom they have business or social intercourse.

NOTE: Francis VARGA was born August 17, 1817, and died on April 5, 1902. Mary VARGA was born on June 23, 1842, and died June 3, 1914. They were interred at Leon Cemetery, Leon IA.

Also interred at the Varga Family plot, Leon Cemetery are:
Francis VARGA, Jr., no date of death
Helen VARGA, died 17 Mar 1876
Lida VARGA, died 1940
Sallie (EVANS) VARGA, wife of Stephen Varga; born 05 Mar 1869 Mason Co. IL; died 26 Feb 1922
Stephen VARGA, died 1940, former Decatur County Treasurer
Clara (VARGA) FRAZIER, died 17 Jun 1906
Vesta VARGA, died in 1895

The other VARGA daughters were Emma, Rosa, Esther, Mary and Nellie.

Photograph courtesy of Decatur County Historical Society Museum

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

Note by Sharon R. Becker, February of 2014

Decatur Biographies maintained by Constance McDaniel Hall.
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