Challen Danforth

DANFORTH, STURMAN

Posted By: Judy Wight Branson (email)
Date: 9/28/2004 at 10:28:29

C. Danforth, Winterset; hardware-dealer; born in Henderson county, Illinois, January 30, 1844; in 1849 his mother, who was a widow, removed to this county, bringing her two children, the subject of this sketch and an older brother. His mother, if not the first school-teacher in Winterset, was one of the first; he enlisted in the 47 the Iowa Inf., and in 1864 engaged in the hardware business, and is at the present time associated with his brother under the firm name of Danforth Bros.; he married Miss Lydia Sturman in 1872; she was born in Missouri; has two children: Beulah and Harry.

Taken from the book, "The History of Madison County, Iowa, 1879" page 534