Vangilder, C. P.

VANGILDER, OWENS

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Date: 1/21/2009 at 16:34:07

VANGILDER, C. P.
Farmer, Sec. 15. Owns eighty acres valued at $2,500 in this township and 102 acres in Kellogg and Mariposa, valued at $2,600. He was born in Hancock Co., IN on 27 Aug 1834 and moved to Knox Co., IL with his parents when he was about a year old. He remained till 1856 and moved to Anderson Co., KS. He stayed there four years and returned to Knox Co., IL, but only stayed a few months and moved to Carroll Co. where he remained about two years. He then moved to this county, settling in Independence Twp. in 1863. He moved to his present farm in the Spring of the present year, on which he is raising hogs, cattle, artichokes, corn, oats and wheat. He married Margaret A. OWENS in Knox Co., in 1856. Their children are Abram W., Mary A., Louisa, Catharine, Dorinda, Angeline and Elmer L. He is a Methodist and a Greenbacker. ~ "Newton Township Biographies," The History of Jasper County, Iowa, (Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1878)