EIDSON, JEREMIAH S.

EIDSON, MCGINLEY

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Date: 4/19/2019 at 14:50:52

MADISON TOWNSHIP.
P. O. FORT MADISON

EIDSON, JEREMIAH S., Street Commissioner; was born in Preble Co., Ohio, Oct. 2, 1821 ; lived there until 1838; when he came with his parents to Iowa, they came by wagon ; were five weeks on the way ; arrived in this county in the spring of 1839 ; they bought a claim containing a section of land and entered it from Government when it came in market; Jeremiah was brought up on a farm. He married Miss Charlotte McGinley, a native of Ohio, in the spring of 1844. The following November, they moved into Fort Madison, built the house where he now lives in 1846 and has lived in it ever since. He was engaged in business for the St. Louis Packet Company for fourteen years, and was very successful ; he owns the property where he now lives and other city property and a farm near the city. He was elected Street Commissioner in 1878 and again elected in 1879. Mrs. Eidson carries on the dress making business on Pine street and does a good business. They have one adopted child—Addie.

Source: BIOGRAPHICAL DIRECTORY
HISTORY OF LEE COUNTY IOWA
CHICAGO: WESTERN HISTORICAL COMPANY, 1879

Transcription typed/proofed as article was originally published in 1879