S. B. Austin

AUSTIN, KIRBY

Posted By: Cheryl Locher Moonen (email)
Date: 5/18/2015 at 21:59:39

S.B. AUSTIN, farmer, Sec. 16; P.O. Peosta; born in Ireland Aug. 11, 1835; came to America in August 1847; stopped two years in New York, and came to Dubuque Co. in 1849; has farmed since coming here, except two years employed on Illinois Central Railroad; has a farm of eighty acres. Mr. Austin acts with the Republican party; is also a member of the Presbyterian Church; his wife, Emma Kirby, was born in Dubuque Co. Oct. 10, 1846. They were married April 7, 1864; have six children- George B., William, P. Lila M., Bertha and James.

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