John Cluen

CLUEN, THATCHER

Posted By: Judy Wight Branson (email)
Date: 9/19/2004 at 18:08:54

John Cluen, Winterset, engineer on the Winterset branch of the C., R. I. & P. R. R.; is a native of New York, and was born in 1845; came to this state in 1865, and to this county in 1874; he is also engaged in the ice business, and, to illustrate the kind of man he is, we mention the fact that during the scarcity of ice in the summer of 1878, he was offered for his stock of ice in bulk much more than he retailed out to his customers, furnishing it at a lower price that any other town; he married Miss S. E. Thatcher, in 1870; she was born in Ohio; has one child: Frankie.

Taken from the book, "The History of Madison County, Iowa, 1879" page 531