James F. Anson

ANSON, HAMILTON

Posted By: Cheryl Locher Moonen (email)
Date: 5/18/2015 at 21:49:37

JAMES F. ANSON, farmer, Sec. 24; P.O. Cascade; born in the city of Dubuque Feb. 24, 1843; is a through farmer, and quite and extensive one, as is proven by the able management of the 248-acre farm on which he resides. He is a member of the Baptist Church and of the Republican party; three years of his life were given to the service of the Union in the civil war, as a soldier in Co. H, 16th I.V.I.; his regiment was attached to the Seventeenth Army Corps, Army of the Tennessee, and participated in the numerous battles in which that gallant command was engaged-siege of Vicksburg, Shiloh, Iuka, etc. and with Sherman in the grand march from Chattanooga to the sea, and at the final review at Washington. He was married, in 1873, to Mrs. Isabella Y. Hamilton, daughter of William Aitchison, Dr.; he has one daughter- Isabella H. Anson, and two step-sons- William W. Hamilton and Charles E. Hamilton.

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