David Downs

DEHAVEN, DOWNS, HARTMAN

Posted By: Judy Wight Branson (email)
Date: 9/28/2004 at 11:26:40

David Downs, South twp., farmer, Sec. 24; P.O. St. Charles; born in Monroe county, Indiana, in 1824, he was very young when his parents moved to Hendricks county, and he was raised there; was married there November 12, 1848; he emigrated to Iowa, and Warren county, in the fall of 1850, where he lived until the spring of 1851, and then came to this county and township; he built the first saw-mill in the township; he and his partner, Geo. Hartman, were engaged in the lumber business about three years, and then removed to his present home; owns 307 acres; his wife's maiden name was Elizabeth Hartman, a native of Hendricks county; they have a family of seven sons and three daughters: Mary A., now Mrs. D. DeHaven, Eliza J., John M., Alfred R., Nancy E., James A., Charles M., Frank E., Cassius E. and Walter D.

Taken from the book, "The History of Madison County, Iowa, 1879" pages 574, 575