George Modlin

MODLIN, PEARSON, RADCLIFFE, LAMB

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Date: 8/20/2010 at 12:01:07

MODLIN, GEORGE, farmer, Sec. 34, P.O. Marshalltown; born in Henry Co., Ind., July 27, 1839; when he was 10 years of age, his parents moved to Blackford Co., Ind., where they remained until 1856; then then moved to this State, and settled in Grundy Co., where the subject of this sketch remained until 1862, when he went to Story Co., where he married Miss Martha Pearson Jan. 5, 1862; she was born in Henry Co., Ind., Jan. 3, 1844; they remained in Story Co. about two years, when they moved to Grundy Co., remaining there until 1866, when they moved to this county; they have five children--Miss R. R. born in Grundy Feb. 12, 1866; Leonard, born in this county Jan. 29, 1869; Laban, born in this county in 1871, Luther, born Sept. 29, 1873; Mary, born in this county April 14, 1876. Mr. Modlin owns eighty acres of land. In politics, he is Republican; religiously, he is Liberal, believing in the greatest good for all. His father, Mark Modlin, was a native of Wayne Co., Ind.; he married Miss Mary Radcliffe; they reside in Grundy Co., this State, and are one of the pioneer families of that county. Mrs. Geo. Modlin's father, J. Pearson, was also a native of Indiana; he married Miss Mary Lamb; she at present resides in this county; he died in this county Sept. 2, 1868; they were one of the pioneer families of this State, coming to it in 1851, and having to endure all the privations and hardships that early settlers must undergo in a new and unsettled country.

Source:
The History of Marshall County, Iowa
1878