Pease, Marion W.

PEASE, LEFEVRE, SNYGER, CARTWRIGHT, OGDEN, ADAMS, SAMS, FRISBY

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PEASE, Marion W.
Farmer; Sec. 28; P. O. Colfax; born in Richland Co., Ohio in 1846; came to this county in 1856. Has eighty acres of land, valued at $40 per acre. Married Miss Kate LEFEVRE in 1868. She was born in Indiana in 1848. They have two children - Isaac G. and Minnie J. Politically, a Republican. Enlisted in 48th I. V. I. in May 1863; served till mustered out in November 1863. ~ "Poweshiek Township Biographies," The History of Jasper County, Iowa, (Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1878)
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Marion W. Pease, one of the most prominent farmers of Poweshiek Township, Jasper County, was born in Richland County, Ohio, April 8, 1846. He was the son of Andrew and Joanna M. Pease, and one of a family of six surviving brothers and sisters who are proud to call themselves children of the "old veteran," Andrew Pease. At the age of eight years he came with his parents to the state of Iowa, and obtained his education in the country schools of this new section, attending as opportunity offered until be was fourteen years old, when he began life on his own account as a farmer on leased lands. At the age of twenty-two be purchased one hundred and sixty acres of unimproved prairie land, and soon after sold one-half of it. After cultivating this place for six years, in which time he had greatly increased the value of the property, he exchanged it for the eighty acres upon which he now resides. This farm he has converted into a veritable garden, and has improved it with a fine residence, good outbuildings, including large and well appointed barns, in which he houses the valuable horses that are the chief product of his industry. He makes a specialty of raising high-grade Hambletonian roadsters, bred from pureblooded stock and carefully selected for particular qualities of speed and bottom. A portion of his farm he uses in raising corn, oats and hay, more for his own use than for market. A fine orchard and vineyard contribute to the comfort of the family.

In 1868 Mr. Pease married Miss Kate A. LeFevre, a native of Indiana and a daughter of Joseph R. and Elizabeth (Snyder) LeFevre, who were originally from Pennsylvania, and later settled upon a farm in this state. The mother of Mrs. Pease died in 1874, and the father in 1876. Their family was large, consisting of eleven children: W. L., now a resident of Monroe, Iowa; Mary M., widow of John Cartwright; Isaac H., who was Captain of a company in the Eighty-eighth Indiana Regiment, and was killed at the battle of Chickamauga; E1len R., wife of Robert Ogden, a resident of the state of Washington; Fannie, Sarah Adams and Esta Sams, deceased; Kate A., wife of the subject of this history; J. P., a physician residing in San Francisco, Cal.; D. F., Cashier of a bank in the state of Washington and Erimina C., wife of Frederick Frisby, of Colorado Springs, Colo.

Marion W. Pease enlisted in 1863 in Company B, Forty-eighth Iowa Infantry, as a private, and served mainly on garrison duty at Rock Island and Chicago. His company was never ordered to the front and little opportunity was afforded for advancement. He, however, held the non-commissioned office of Corporal in his company. He is a member of River Side Lodge No. 889, A. F. & A. M., and is Junior Vice-Commander of E. D. Duncan Post, G. A. R., of Colfax. Mr. and Mrs. Pease have had three children. Isaac and Linnie J. are at home; Pearl they lost in infancy. Portrait and Biographical Record, Jasper, Marshall and Grundy Counties, IA Page 403.