Black, Isaiah W.

BLACK, HANNA, WARD, DIESCHER

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Date: 8/27/2009 at 09:07:43

Black, Isaiah W.

A representative Iowa farmer, one of that great class of able men who have made Iowa a great state, is Isaiah W. Black. For Iowa is preeminently a farming state, and her farmers are more progressive and efficient than the average of American farmers, and demonstrate this every year by their excellent showing. Mr. Black has spent the years of his active life on the farm in honest and healthful toil, intelligently directed, which have brought to him peace and plenty in his later years, and a consciousness of duty done.

Isaiah W. Black was born in Mercer County, Pennsylvania, on December 28, 1850, the son of Robert and Eliza (Hanna) Black. His father came to Jackson county, Iowa, from Mercer county, Pennsylvania, in 1853. His mother had died at an early age in Jackson County. Robert Black farmed in Jackson county until his death, at the age of seventy-one, and was a man of local influence, filling many offices in the township in which he resided. David M. Black, of Maquoketa, Iowa, is a half-brother, and Mrs. Emma Ward, of Newton, a half-sister of the subject. Isaiah W. Black farmed for many years in Jackson County, in South Dakota, and in Jasper County, meeting with uniform success. In all the communities in which he has lived he has taken an active and prominent part in affairs of general interest and has filled local offices. He was married in Jones County, Iowa, to Anna C. Deischer, the daughter of Daniel Diescher, a pioneer of Jones County, to which he had moved from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. To this marriage were born three children. Charles C. Black is in the lumber business at Mingo, Jasper County, and is thriving successfully, Clarence A. Black of Mingo, Jasper County, is a partner with his brother, Charles C., in the lumber business. Dr. Elmer E. Black, of Colfax, is a veterinary surgeon, a graduate of the State Agricultural College of Ames, Iowa, in 1909. He began practice at Colfax, and is building up a good reputation by his efficiency.

The Black family is an old and honored one, and all its Iowa members have lived up to the family name. Isaiah W. Black possesses the respect and esteem of all who know him, and has in his lifetime made many friends. Past and Present of Jasper County Iowa B. F. Bowden & Company, Indianapolis, IN, 1912 Page 736.