St. Clair, Augustus J.

ST CLAIR

Posted By: Joyce Hickman (email)
Date: 8/1/2008 at 16:15:55

August J. St. Clair

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.105, Grove Twp.)
Augustus J. St Clair, farmer, P. O. Macedonia, born in Logan, Ill., October 21, 1856, a great-grandson of Gen. St. Clair, of Revolutionary fame, and son of Joseph N. and Melissa Ann (Briggs) St. Clair, he, a carpenter by trade, born in New York, died in Kansas July 4, 1872; she, born in Vermont in 1828, is still living; they had eight children, all of whom are living. Subject received a common-school education; began life as a farmer and married in Kansas on January 1, 1880, Lenora C. Penn, born in California, February 21, 1856, daughter of Josiah W. and Martha A. (Clark) Penn; he, born in Tennessee June 21, 1827, died in Missouri, October 15, 1870; she, born in Ohio August 9, 1829, is still living. Mr. and Mrs. St. Clair have one child, Bertha, born July 25, 1881. Subject is a Christian and a Democrat; and moved from Illinois to Crawford County, Kan., in 1872, farming on his own land and trading in cattle until 1881, when he moved to this county and shortly afterward rented the farm on which he now lives and which he contemplates buying soon. There are about fourteen acres of natural timber, 100 head of sheep and other stock on the place.