Harrison Noble

NOBLE, BOARDMAN, HOLT, HUBBLE

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Date: 10/16/2004 at 22:08:56

Harrison Noble, proprietor of the mercantile store now
operated by Wilson, Foote & Noble, was born in Napoli, Cattaraugus County, N.Y.,
Aug. 7, 1829. His parents, Lorin and Fannie (Boardman) Noble, are natives of
New York, where the former followed lumbering and farming until 1854, when he
came to Iowa. He conducted a hotel in Delaware County a number of years, and is
now engaged in farming in Clayton County. The subject of this memoir came to
Iowa in June, 1852, and purchased land in Delaware County, where he was married
to Rosanna Holt, on Dec. 29, 1858. She was born in Rutland County, O., and was
a daughter of Aaron and Lucretia (Hubble) Holt. They have five children--Eddie
L., born in the year 1859, is engaged in the dry-goods business at Edgewood;
Elsie, born March 6, 1861, is teaching school here; Merril, born April 19, 1867;
Nora, Feb. 7, 1869, and Jesse, Aug. 27, 1871. Mr. Noble in March, 1866, bought
a store in Edgewood, and a farm in Lodomillo Township, the latter now comprising
a portion of the town of Edgewood, in which he has always taken an active
interest. It was principally through his efforts that the C.M. & St.P.R.R. was
laid through the place, he giving them depot ground, and laying out Noble's
addition to Edgewood. He was Postmaster here for nine and one-half years. He
is a Mason, and is a member of Strawberry Point Lodge, No. 130. He owns several
lots in this and Delaware Counties. In politics he is a Republican, and is one
of our energetic business men.

source: History of Clayton County, Iowa, 1882, p. 898