Roades, J. A.

ROADES

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Date: 9/23/2008 at 13:50:02

J. A. Roades

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.167, Macedonia Twp.)
J. A. Roades, merchant, Carson, was born in Champaign County, Ohio, June 18, 1857, son of John and Eliza I. (Burnham) Roades; he, born in Ohio about 1835, is a farmer and stock-dealer, living in Logan County, Ill.; she, born in Ohio about 1830, is the mother of six children, one of whom is dead. Mr. Roades received a common-school education, and began the business of life as a farmer in Locan County, Ill.; there he remained one year and then came to Iowa in 1877, locating at Wheeler's Grove, Grove Township, Pottawattamie County, where he rented a farm for one year of L. D. Woodmansee; after renting amother farm for a year he bought forty acres for $12.50 an acre in Belknap Township, this he improved and sold for $26 an acre. In March, 1882, after selling his farm, Mr. Roades bought a half interest in I. Culbertson's store, known as the Farmer's Store in Carson. The firm is now Culbertson & Roades, and deals in groceries, queensware and notions. In July, 1881, he bought another lot and erected a house upon it in Carson, and in July, 1882, he bought another lot and erected a house upon it; he now rents them for $6 and $7 per month, respectively. In 1879, Mr. Roades assisted in the harvesting of oats, where the town of Carson now stands. Mr. Roades is a member of the I. O. O. F., No. 444, also of the M. E. Church; he is a Republican.