Millsap, Thos.

MILLSAP, ALEXANDER

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Date: 12/4/2008 at 11:29:41

MILLSAP, Thos.
Farmer and Stock Grower; Sec. 25; P. O. Prairie City; born in Missouri in 1824. Mr. M.'s father was one of the early pioneers of Wisconsin; went to Dubuque when there were but a few board shanties there; was driven back to the Wisconsin side by the Indians; his business was mining and smelting; went to California in 1849; died in 1851, at Panama, on his return home; was in the Blackhawk war. Mr. M. came to Jasper Co. in 1867. Has 245 acres of land, valued at $40 per acre. He married Miss Mary ALEXANDER in 1848; she was born in Scotland in 1825. They have six children - Charles, Eddy, Albert, Lucy, Marion and Delos. Republican. Has held office of Sub- Director, Township Supervisor and was Representative from Jackson County in the General Assembly held at Des Moines in 1858. Member of the Presbyterian Church. Enlisted in the 16th Regiment Iowa V. I. in 1862; participated in the battle of Shiloh; mustered out in 1863 on account of ill health. Mr. M. commenced on his farm in an entirely new and unimproved state; now has a house costing $2,500, and has built fence and outbuildings to correspond; has a grove of 1,200 soft maples, put out in the sod in 1867; they now stand forty feet high; has 200 fine bearing apple trees, with numerous smaller fruits. At the time of Mr. M.'s coming to Jasper County, but few bridges were in existence; he has taken a lively interest in the completion of the many substantial bridges now spanning the streams in his vicinity. ~ "Washington Township Biographies," The History of Jasper County, Iowa, (Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1878)