Lint, Alexander

LINT

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Date: 11/17/2008 at 14:14:09

LINT, Alexander; Farmer; Sec. 29; P. O. Greencastle; born in Somerset CO., Penn., March 4, 1831. He moved to Iowa in 1863. He followed the millwright business for six years, and improved the present farm, and built good buildings; has 140 acres of land, valued at $30 per acre; has a good stock farm with a good stream of living water running through it. Married his wife in Pennsylvania in 1854. They have five children - Levi D., Matilda, Wilson H., Clayton J. and Amanda. His grandfather, John LINT, was a soldier in the war of 1812. Mr. and Mrs. LINT are members of the Evangelical Church. ~ "The History of Jasper County" (Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1878), 602.