LEWIS CASS WONNELL

WONNELL, STREETER, ERBES, MINCHER

Posted By: volunteer
Date: 3/7/2009 at 18:19:17

LEWIS CASS WONNELL, carriage and house painter, of Wapello, was born in Port Clinton, Ohio, Feb. 13, 1848, and is the son of James and Julia (Streeter) Wonnell. His father was born in Maryland, and his mother in Vermont. Lewis received his primary education in the common school, and took a two-years scientific course at Adrian College, of Adrian, Mich. He was reared on a farm on the shores of Lake Erie, and learned the carriage painter's trade at Sandusky, Ohio. He came to Wapello, Iowa, in 1869, and worked at his trade in the carriage factory of George Erbes, of this city, for several years, and has subsequently worked both at carriage and house painting. He was married at Wapello, Dec. 31, 1874, to Miss Anna B. Mincher, daughter of Edward and Eliza I. Mincher. Mrs. Wonnell was born at Wapello.