Dabney, W. H. H.

DABNEY

Posted By: Joyce Hickman (email)
Date: 8/4/2008 at 13:47:26

W. H. H. Dabney

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.66, Belknap Twp.)
W. H. H. Dabney, stock and grain, Oakland, was born in Vermillion County, Ill., December 31, 1835. He is the son of Henry and Maria (Stanfield) Dabney. His father was born in King William County, Va., Decmeber 31, 1795; he had a number of slaves left him, which he afterward set free; he left his native State in 1825, and, in the winter of 1825-26 he taught the first school in Terre Haute, Ind.; he went from here to Vermillion County, Ill., where he located, and was married. He was a soldier in the war of 1812, and was in a number of active engagements; he moved to Dallas County, this State, in 1855, and afterward to Madison County, Iowa, where he died in Winterset March 24, 1870. His (subject's) mother was born in Knoxville, Green Co., Tenn., October 6, 1813, and is still living, in the enjoyment of good health in Winterset, Madison County, this State. Our subject has eight brothers and two sisters living. One brother is a prominent lawyer in Madison County, Iowa. Our subject received a common school education and worked on his father's farm until twenty-one years of age, when he started in for himself by fclerking in a store for two years; he then started for Colorado without a dollar; he commenced business with two yoke of catle and a wagon, which he bought on time; he freighted four years frmo the Missouri River to Colorado, and four years from Salt Lake City to Montana; he then owned ten wagons, with five yoke of cattle to each. During this time he came home, and was married, March 15, 1866 to Mary B. Lee; born in Licking County, Ohio, September 12, 1849. She was the daughter of E. B. and Ann (Shields) Lee. Her father was born in Licking County, Ohio, in 1814; he was a farmer and stock-shipper; he died in Barton County, Kan., at the age of sixty-eight; her mother was born in Jefferson County, Ohio, in 1824, and is now living in Barton County, Kan. After his marriage, our subjected freighted for eighteen months, at the end of which time he sold his train and returned to this State, locating in Winterset, Madison County. Here he dealt in land, stocka nd grain, and built and ran an elevator. In February, 1880, he moved to this county, having previously, in 1868, bought the farm on which he now resides, Section 2, Township 75, Range 40. He owns 600 acres in Belknap and James Townships, which is farmed by renters. He is engaged in feeding and shipping stock, and also grain. He has had four children, all of whom were born in Winterset, this State - William, died when he was eighteen months old; Minnine Alice, born October 5, 1868; John Maurice, born April 4, 1872; Henry Bowman, born July 9, 1875. Mr. and Mrs. Dabney are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He is a member of the I. O. O. F., and in politics, a Republican.