Rounds, H. H.

ROUNDS

Posted By: Joyce Hickman (email)
Date: 8/21/2008 at 14:01:05

H. H. Rounds

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.123, James Twp.)
H. H. Rounds, farmer, P. O. Hancock, was born in Ogdensburg, N. Y., in April 1844, son of Hiram and Lucinda (Hastings) Rounds, both natives of Richford, Vt., he born in 1804, and died in San Bernardino County, Cal., in August, 1868; she born in 1805, and died in Leavenworth, Kan., in 1869. They were farmers, and had six children - four sons and two daughters. Our subject received his schooling in Dane County, Wis., and Illinois. He was married, April 13, 1866, in Anamosa, Jones County, this State, to Elizabeth Brock, born in Lake County, Ill., March 18, 1839, daughter of Robert and Katharina (Blair) Brock, he born in New York City in 1804, and is still living, in Fairbury, Jefferson Co., Neb. He is a farmer. Mrs. Rounds' mother was a native of Canada, born in 1807, and died in Clinton County, this State, in 1871. Our subject has six children living, and two deceased (who were twins). Those living are Eugene Henry, born February 7, 1867; Stephen W., born August 15, 1869; John W., born march 15, 1871; Cora Isabelle, born June 25, 1873; Alice M., born February 3, 1875; and Mary C., born December 19, 1879. Our subject came to James Township, this county in 1873, after having lived one summer in Nebraska. He purchased eighty acres of prairie land at $7 per acre, and, in 1877, added forty acres of improved land at $15 per acre. He made several subsequent purchases, including twenty acres at $16.50 per acre, forty acres at $21.25 per acre, the two latter purchases being improved land. In 1881, he bought eighty acres of prairie land at $12.50 per acre, and now has 260 acres of good land and carries on general farming. In politics, he is a Republican.