Charles D. Bevington

BEVINGTON, GUIBERSON, HEATH, PARKER

Posted By: Judy Wight Branson (email)
Date: 9/15/2004 at 20:04:19

C. D. Bevington, Winterset, was born July 13, 1826, in Holmes county Ohio. He was raised a farmer, and received only a common school education, with the exception of one term spent a Hayesville College. He studied law a short time, and took a course of study in medicine, but never followed the practice as a business. He went from Ohio to California in 1849, returned and settled in Winterset in 1853.

His main business has been farming and dealing in real estate. In 1864, with others, he aided in organizing the National Bank of Winterset, with a capital of $50,000, which was soon increased to its present capital of $100,000, and from the organization to the present time, he has been president of the bank. He was one of the projectors of the D. M., W. & S. W. Railroad Company, and when organized became the president. Under his personal supervision the line was completed from Summerset to Winterset, 26 miles; and paid for in seven months, an undertaking of its kind unsurpassed in the State.

He began life without a dollar, but is now among the heaviest, if not the heaviest taxpayer in Central Iowa. He owns the greater portion of the stock of the Winterset National Bank, and has some four thousand acres of land enclosed and under cultivation. In him great mental and physical force combine; these traits with energy, a strong will and sound judgment, have placed him among the foremost citizens of Madison County.

He has been married four times; first to Julia Parker, March 27, 1851; she was born in Ohio, and died in July 1852, on the way to California; in January 1854, he married Miss P. P. Parker, a sister of his first wife; she was also a native of Ohio, and died in December 1854, at the birth of their first child; it died in a few days; for his third wife he married Miss J. G. Guiberson in 1855; she died January 14, 1857, leaving one child, S. G. Bevington, cashier of the Nation Bank of Winterset. In October 27, 1857, he married Eliza Heath, a native of Ohio; by this marriage they have two children: C. I. and an infant daughter.

Taken from the book, "The History of Madison County, Iowa, 1879" pages 528, 529

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