Spears, William

SPEARS

Posted By: Joyce Hickman (email)
Date: 9/29/2008 at 16:17:45

William Spears

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.179, Minden Twp.)
William Spears, farmer, P. O. Minden, was born in Mercer County, Penn, September 3, 1836. He is the son of George and Sarah Ann (Churchfield) Spears. His father was a blacksmith, born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1801, and died in Florence, Neb., in 1846. The mother of our subject was born in Westmoreland County, Penn., in 1812, and died in this county. The parents had eight children - four sons and four daughters. Our subject received his education in Illinois, Nebraska and this county. He left his native State and went to Illinois in 1839, with his parents. He lived in that State till 1846, when he went to Nebraska, where he lived till he came to this county, in 1848. In 1865, he purchased land in Harrison County, this State and sold the same in 1871. He now has 320 acres, part of which is under cultivation. he has one of the finest homes in the county,a nd engaged in general farming. He has been Justice of the Peace, Township Clerk and Township Trustee. He was married, in Garner Township, this county, May 27, 1863, to Luvinia Stoker, born in this county November 20, 1846. She is the daughter of Eller and Margaret (Judd) Stoker. Mr. and Mrs. Spears have had the following children, of whom there are five living - Andrew, Agnes J., Lucretia, Mary Jane, Daisy Ann, Frank, Lizzie, Myrtle, Louisa and William H. Our subject is a Granger, and in politics a Greenbacker.