Poorbaugh, Henry

POORBAUGH, LINT

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Date: 12/4/2008 at 08:14:40

POORBAUGH, Henry
Farmer; Sec. 36; P. O. Colfax; born in Somerset Co., Penn. in 1825; he moved to Elkhart, Ind. in 1851, and in 1859 to this county. Married Phoebe LINT in 1861, who was born in Pennsylvania in 1836. They have six children - Alfreda Edis Bell, Isadora, Cora E., Auttie J., Blanche and Theodore W. Democrat. Mr. P. has the finest buildings in the county; came here in 1849; entered 160 acres in 1850; soon after sold out and went to California; remained till 1851; returned and bought the same land, and now has 568 acres, valued at $40 per acre, livery stable, vacant lot and two lots with dwellings in Colfax. ~ "Poweshiek Township Biographies," The History of Jasper County, Iowa, (Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1878)