Bain, Fred

BAIN, FARMER, SIPE, WHEELER, KROUSE, GUTHRIE, BEAN, OLDFIELD, SHIPLEY

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Date: 8/21/2009 at 10:15:41

Bain, Fred

Another of the most progressive of Jasper County's young farmers and stock men who is worthy of specific mention in this work is Fred Bain, whose energy and good management has brought him a very desirable success. He comes of an honored old pioneer family, members of which have done much for the general good of this County, and here his birth occurred on February 5, 1876. He is the son of Hamilton D. and Margaret (Farmer) Bain, the father being a native of New York and the mother of Ohio. They grew to maturity in the East and came to Jasper County, Iowa, when young, here marrying. The paternal grandparents came to this County in the early days and here developed a farm. Hamilton Bain lived to see this locality transformed from wild prairies to its present high state of cultivation, and he did much to encourage the general up building of the community, for he was a man of fine public spirit and true worth, and was one of the County's most highly esteemed citizens. His death occurred in 1904, while residing on the home farm in Fairview Township. At the time of his death he owned one hundred and sixty acres of valuable land in the County. He served his Township in nearly every capacity for a great many years. He was not a soldier himself, but he had five brothers in the Civil War. His grandfather was a trainer of troops in his day and he organized a number of volunteer companies for military training.

There were three sons and three daughters in the family of Hamilton Bain, of whom three are deceased, namely: Emma is the wife of J. E. Sipe, a rural mail carrier who resides in Reasnor; Nettie is the wife of S. V. Wheeler and they live near Reasnor; Neil died when twenty-two years old; Mina died at the age of fifteen, and Orie's death occurred at the age of twenty-one.

By a former marriage of Hamilton Bain two children were born, Mrs. John Krouse, of Colorado, and Mrs. Maud Guthrie, who was the wife of George Guthrie, is deceased.

Fred Bain has always been a farmer. When a boy he worked on the home place and attended the neighboring schools in the winter. He began life by renting land for several years, working hard all the time. At the end of that period he purchased one hundred and sixty acres north of Newton, upon which he lived two years; he then sold it and purchased his present farm near Reasnor, upon which he now lives and which he has brought up to a high state of improvement and cultivation and where he is very success fully engaged in general farming and stock raising.

On October 5, 1897, Mr. Bain was married to Etta Bean, daughter of Charles and Ella (Oldfield) Bean, who now live on a farm in the state of Idaho, devoting his attention principally to fruit growing. His wife is deceased. Mrs. Bain is the child of a second marriage of the father. She has one sister, Mrs. Shipley of Menlo, Iowa. Two children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Bain, Harold, whose birth occurred July 4,1898, and Mildred, born February 8, 1902.

Both Mr. and Mrs. Bain take an active interest in Church work at Reasnor, being members of the Methodist Episcopal Church there, of which he is one of the trustees. In politics he is a Republican. He is a whole-souled, genial young man of excellent character. Past and Present of Jasper County Iowa B. F. Bowden & Company, Indianapolis, IN, 1912 Page 1293.