Oliver, Franklin G.

OLIVER, ADAMS, CONNOR

Posted By: Connie Swearingen (email)
Date: 9/25/2007 at 00:23:06

Source: History of Monona County, Iowa 1890
Pub: Chicago National Com

Franklin G. Oliver, a prominent citizen and leading farmer of the town of Franklin, living on section 25, is one of the county’s earliest settlers. He came here with his father in July, 1857, and for some two months made his home in the old courthouse at Ashton. From there, in September, he removed to Onawa, then just laid out, and being a carpenter by trade, assisted in the erection of the first buildings in that place. He followed his occupation until July, 1861, when he removed to the farm, which he owned in connection with his father, to which they added from time to time, until they now possess upwards of a thousand acres.
Franklin G. Oliver was born in Franklin County, Me,. February 19, 1835, and his the son of George W. and Hannah R. (Adams) Oliver, a sketch of whom appears elsewhere in this volume, and while a boy removed with his father’s family to Illinois. He received an education in the latter locality, and early in life adopted his father’s trade, that of carpenter, as a vocation. He was married at Elgin, Kane County, Illinois, November 20, 1855 to Miss Esther Connor, a native of Erie County, New York. The lady was born May 27, 1837, and is the daughter of Parker and Esther Connor, native of Massachusetts and New York, respectively. The latter where married in the Empire State, and in 1848 removed to Du Page County, Illinois, where the father died in 1852, at the age of fifty-two years. The mother, who was born November 1809, removed to Kane County, where she is still living. She was the mother of eleven children, Mrs. Oliver being the third girl, and the fifth child. Both were members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Mr. and Mrs. Oliver are the parents of fourteen children, of which the following is a record: Martha D. was born July 2, 1856: Lurena D., January 29, 1858: Caroline E., October 28, 1859: Flora E., May 13, 1861: George W, April 5, 1863: Emma A., August 20, 1864: Parker C. February 25, 1866 and died November 28, 1875: Mary E, was born March 13, 1868, and died November 25, 1875: Fanny A. was born July 25, 1869 and died March 17, 1870: Sylvia A was born December 29, 1870 and died November 23, 1875: Eva C was born December 9, 1872: Franklin G was born March 19, 1875: Freddie L, May 21, 1877: and an infant unnamed, was born February 2, 1879, and died February 15, the same year.
In politics, Mr. Oliver affiliated with the Republican party and has held several of the local township offices.