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Mr. Horace Smead 1795-1876

SMEAD, RIDER

Posted By: cheryl moonen (email)
Date: 8/7/2017 at 21:34:10

Dubuque (Iowa) Daily Herald on Friday, December 29, 1876.

Death of Horace Smead

The readers of yesterday’s HERALD are aware that Mr. Horace Smead died at his residence of his son-in-law of this city, on Wednesday night, after a brief illness. The funeral announcement will be found elsewhere. His death has cast a gloom of sorrow among his many friends, especially the early settlers.

Mr. Smead was one of the earliest settlers in this region having removed from New York to the vicinity of Galena, 40 years ago. He was born in Washington, Vermont, March 14, 1795, removed to the state of New York when quite a young man, and in 1826 came to the vicinity of Galena, where he engaged in mining and smelting.

In 1827 he was married to Miss Cornelia Moore, and in 1830 opened a farm on the river bottom a few miles above the site where Dunleith now stands. At the breaking out of the Black Hawk War, in 1832, Mr. Smead removed his family to Galena for safety, where he joined a company to assist in protecting the settlement from Indians. When the war closed he took his family back to the farm where they continued where they continued to reside until 1846, when they removed to a new farm a few miles northwest of Fairplay, Wisconsin.

About eight years ago Mr. Smead sold his property in Wisconsin and purchased a pleasant home near West Dubuque, where he resided until the spring of 1875, when he purchased a fine farm near Peosta, in this county, to which he soon afterwards removed. A few weeks ago he came to the city on a visit to his friends, and while at the residence of John V. Rider, his son-in-law, was prostrated by an attack of heart disease which terminated his life.


 

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