Mathias Duclos

DUCLOS, STAUTER

Posted By: Dorothy Gosse (email)
Date: 3/9/2002 at 23:29:56

Duclos, Mathias, farmer, Section 5 (Auburn township); PO Old Mission; born in France in 1819. Married Julia Ann Stauter in 1854; she was born in France in 1824; have nine children --- Anthony, Julia Ann, Louis, Francis, Annie, Lana, Mathias, Jr., Elizabeth and Barbara; lost four children -- Mathias, Mary Philemana and Nicolas. Came to this country when a boy with his father, Mathias D., in 1826, living in Pittsburgh, Penn., eight years; Ohio, three years, and Indiana, eleven years, where his parents died; came to this county in 1850, and lived at the Old Mission until he built a hut, and is one of the earliest settlers in this town. Has a farm of 265 acres and eighty acres in Windsor township, valued at $30 per acre. He has been Town Trustee and is well known. Both members of the Catholic Church.

Page 752, "1878 History of Fayette County, Iowa"