Edgar Harrell

ARMSTRONG, BEEM, BRADY, HARRELL, HIRCOCK, MCDONALD, NEWTON, THOMPSON, WILSON

Posted By: Judy Wight Branson (email)
Date: 10/21/2004 at 08:57:03

“History of Madison County Iowa and Its People”
Herman A. Mueller, Supervising Editor
Chicago, The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1915

Edgar Harrell, a representative and prosperous agriculturist of Madison county, is the owner of four hundred and eighty acres of valuable farm land in Scott and Walnut townships. His entire life has been spent in this county, his birth having occurred on his father's farm in Scott township on the 19th of September, 1864. The period of his minority was passed under the parental roof, and in the acquirement of an education he attended the country schools and the schools of Winterset. When he had attained the age of twenty-one years he began the cultivation of a tract of eighty acres in Lincoln township, which had been given him by his father, but he did not live thereon and at the end of three years disposed of the property and bought one hundred and twenty acres of improved land on section 32, Scott township. As time passed and his financial resources increased, owing to his untiring industry and capable management, he augmented his holdings by additional purchase and now owns three hundred and twenty acres of rich and productive land on section 32; a tract of eighty acres on section 20, Scott township; and also eighty acres in Walnut township. The property is well improved in every particular and his undertakings as an agriculturist have been attended with a gratifying and well merited measure of success, so that he has long been numbered among the substantial and enterprising citizens of the community.

As a companion and helpmate on the journey of life Mr. Harrell chose Miss J. E. Hircock, who was born in Scott township, this county, on the 2d of October, 1865. Extended mention of her parents, William and Elizabeth (Armstrong) Hircock, is made on another page of this work in connection with the sketch of John W. Beem, a brother-in-law of Mrs. Harrell. To our subject and his wife have been born eleven children, as follows: Elmira, the wife of Glen Newton, of Lincoln township, by whom she has two children, Wayne and Lots; Omer Ellsworth, who wedded Miss Bessie Thompson, of Walnut township, and has one child, Katherine; Ada Elizabeth, the wife of J. W. Wilson, of Nebraska, by whom she has one child, Dorothy; Edmund Basil, who married Miss Millie Brady, of Scott township, and has two children, Paul and Margaret; Flora May, the wife of Henderson McDonald, of Scott township, by whom she has two children, Edgar and Thais; Nellie, who died in infancy; and William Lee, Charles Gayland, Ernest Glen, Nora Leota and Mary Margaret, all at home.

Mr. Harrell gives his political allegiance to the Democratic party and has ably served in the capacity of school director. Both he and his wife have always lived in this county and have a host of warm friends who esteem them highly.

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