Churchill, Levi M.

CHURCHILL, MARTIN

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Churchill, Levi M.

The subject of this sketch is one of the progressive young agriculturists of Fairview Township, Jasper County, whose well improved and productive farm ranks with the best in his locality, having been well tilled and well managed by Mr. Churchill and brought up to its present high state of excellency by him. His success has been won entirely along lines of well-established customs, for he realized at the outset that there is no excellence without labor.

Levi M. Churchill was born in the community where he still resides and where, in fact, he has spent his life, on September 24, 1877. He is the son of H. L. Churchill, a well known farmer and stock man, of this County, a complete sketch of whom appears on another page of this work, to which the reader is respectfully referred. The subject has three brothers and one sister living.

Mr. Churchill was reared on the farm where he worked when a boy. He attended the Capital Prairie district school and the Monroe high school, later took a course in the Iowa Business College at Des Moines for two years. Returning home when he was twenty-one years old, he farmed on the home place for a year, and the following year he began farming for his father on one hundred and twenty acres adjoining the home place and eighty acres of the home place. In 1902 he was married and moved onto one of his father's farms a half-mile north of Fairmount. He has been very successful as a general farmer and stock raiser. He feeds large numbers of cattle from year to year. He raises thoroughbred, double standard Polled Hereford cattle, and his fine stock are much admired by all.

Politically, Mr. Churchill is a Republican, and he belongs to the Modern Woodmen of America. He is a member of the Baptist Church.

Mr. Churchill was married on December 24, 1902, to Florence E. Martin, who was born in Sarpy County, Nebraska, July 1, 1882, the daughter of Jacob Martin. This union has been without issue. Past and Present of Jasper County Iowa B. F. Bowden & Company, Indianapolis, IN, 1912 Page 908