J. MASSINGHAM

MASSINGHAM, MILLER

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Date: 5/6/2005 at 01:04:03

MASSINGHAM, J., retired; born in 1818 in England; in 1832 came to Ohio; 1836, came to Kane Co., Ill.; in 1850 removed to Racine, Wis.; in 1856 removed to Olmstead Co., Minn.; in 1862 came to Winona Co., Minn.; in 1865 came to Garnavillo, Clayton Co., Iowa; in 1868 removed to Osage, Mitchell Co., Iowa, and was proprietor of Massingham House for a term of about seven years; in 1875 came to West Union; owns forty-three acres in the suburbs of West Union. Mr. M. has been engaged in the hotel business about twenty years. Married C. J. Miller in 1841; she was born in Oswego Co., N. Y., in 1823; have seven children - Mary, Anna, Henry, Julia, William, Harvey and Fred. Members of the Episcopal Church.

1878 History of Fayette Co. Iowa - West Union Twp.
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