William Doak

BUTLER, DOAK, URAN

Posted By: Judy Wight Branson (email)
Date: 9/28/2004 at 11:23:04

Wm. Doak, Jefferson twp., farmer, Sec. 27; P.O. Winterset; born in Lehigh county, Pa., March 9, 1826; he was very young when his parents moved to Richland county, Ohio; his parents moved to Iroquois county, Illinois, when he was nine years of age; he married Miss Mary Uran July 8, 1847; the same fall they came to Warren county, Iowa, and were among the first settlers; he cast his first vote in Iowa in 1852; he went to California by land and drove five yoke of cattle and was five months on the road; he remained there until 1854, and then returned to Iowa; October 2, 1862, he enlisted in the Second Iowa Battery and was mustered out August 11, 1865; he was engaged in the battles of Jackson, Miss., Siege of Vicksburg, second battle of Jackson, Tupelo, Miss., and Nashville, Tenn.; he came to this county in 1857; owns 157 acres of land; has a family of two sons and one daughter: Sarah, now Mrs. Wm. Butler, Andrew and Collie.

Taken from the book, "The History of Madison County, Iowa, 1879" page 651