Templeton, J. W.

TEMPLETON

Posted By: Joyce Hickman (email)
Date: 7/29/2008 at 16:18:50

J. W. Templeton

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.97, Garner Twp.)
J. W. Templeton, farmer, P. O. Council Bluffs, was born in Scotland in 1835; son of Archibald and Janet (McIntosh) Templeton, natives of Scotland, both deceased; the father was a farmer. Mr. Templeton has three brothers and three sisters living and one brother dead; he has two brothers in America, one being in Michigan and one in Dakota Territory, the rest of the children are in Scotland. Mr. Templeton received his education in his native country, where he dealt in fruits, groceries, etc., and also followed farming before coming to this country. He lost everything in Scotland, and came here to start anew. He arrived in Chicago in December, 1871, and remained there as a laborer one year; then went to Colorado, and followed farming four years, having to irrigate all his land. In 1876, while Mr. Templeton was returning to Colorado by wagon from Des Moines, Iowa, a colt ingured itself on a wire fence, causing a delay of several days, during which Mr. Templeton purchased seventy acres, a part of his present farm, in Iowa; this land was slightly improved. He now has 300 acres all under cultivation, except 120 acres of pasture; he has an orchard of ten acres, two of which are bearing at the present time; he has three teams, fifty head of cattle and fifty hogs, and carries on general farming. He has a comfortable house and outbuildings, and has set out shade trees, etc. He was married July 4, 1872, in Kankakee, Ill., to Eliza Hanna, a native of Scotland, from where she emigraetd, when quite young, with her parents; her father is dead, and her mother lives in Illinois, where Mrs. Templeton also has two sisters. Mr. Templeton is a Republican.