Elisha HARTSOUGH (1813)

HARTSOUGH, BRUNSON

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Date: 6/4/2005 at 22:24:35

HARTSOUGH, Elisha, far., Sec. 12; P. O. Fayette; born in Oxford, Canada, in 1813; his father and family were surrendered to the British at Detroit, as prisoners of war, at the time of Hull's surrender, in 1812, and while aliens in Canada, the subject of this sketch was born. Married Miss M. D. Brunson in 1837; she was a native of Cuyahoga Co., Ohio; they moved to Rockford, Ill., the same year, and remained in that vicinity four years, and in 1841, removed to the mining region of Northern Illinois and Southern Wisconsin, where he remained for nine years, at one time running a smelting furnace near Shullsburg, Wis.; came to Dover Tp., this county, in 1850, and settled on Sec. 33; lived there four years, then moved to Center Tp., where he has since resided. Owns 160 acres, valued at $4,000. They have nine children - Harvey D., William D., Electa M., Clark C., Mary E., John W., D. Maurice, Porter L. and Walter W.

1878 History of Fayette Co. Iowa - Centre Township
Page 714 & 715