Wooster, Quincy A.

WOOSTER, MONROE, ISENHOUR

Posted By: Linda Ziemann, volunteer (email)
Date: 1/15/2015 at 08:27:08

QUINCY A. WOOSTER

Mr. Wooster was born September 4, 1839 in Vermont, the son of John and Fanny Wooster. His father was a Congregational minister.

He engaged in lumbering in Maine until 1860, when he went to Fillmore Co., Minn., where he engaged in farming.

Mr. Wooster was married October 5, 1862, in Minnesota, to Catherine Monroe, a native of Pennsylvania.

In the spring of 1865 he took his wife and baby in a prairie schooner and pioneered to the Maple Valley in Monona County, where he homesteaded on the old Wooster place north of Mapleton, Iowa.

Eleven children blessed this union, eight of whom are deceased. The ones remaining are: Fremont M. of Mapleton, Ia.; Mrs. Nellie M. Wheeler of Los Angeles, Cal.; and Mrs. Fannie Steinman of Erie, Kan.

During the Minnesota Indian Massacre in 1862, Mr. Wooster spent some time in a volunteer company in defense of the settlers of different parts of Minnesota.

Mrs. Wooster died November 14, 1900. On January 23, 1902, Mr. Wooster was married to Miss Adeline Isenhour, who died in 1937. Mr. Quincy A. Wooster died February 21, 1908.

Source: Mapleton Milestones, published 1938