Shelinbarger, Henry

SHELINBARGER, HOLLOW

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Date: 12/4/2008 at 07:23:32

SHELINBARGER, Henry
Farmer and veterinary surgeon; Sec. 21; P. O. Newton; born in Fairfield Co., Ohio, in 1813; came to Jasper County in 1853; owns sixty-seven acres of land, valued at $50 per acre. Married Miss Elizabeth HOLLOW in August, 1834; she was born in Pennsylvania in 1814; they have four children-Melinda, Martha, Aaron and Caleb. Greenbacker; she is a member of the Disciple Church. Mr. S. has 500 trees of the best and greatest number of varieties of fruit in the county. ~ "Palo Alto Township Biographies," The History of Jasper County, Iowa, (Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1878)