Matson, N. W.

MATSON

Posted By: Joyce Hickman (email)
Date: 10/2/2008 at 13:34:50

N. W. Matson

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.188, Neola Twp.)
N. W. Matson, farmer, P. O. Neola, was born in Georgetown, Harrison Co., Ohio, November 22, 1827, son of Peter and Jane (Dawson) Matson; he born in Virginia in 1804, and died in Illinois in 1855; she born in Pennsylvania in 1801, died in December 1876. The parents had ten children, eight of whom are living. Mr. Matson began farming on his own responsbility in Illinois in 1847, where, for ten years, he rented land. In 1857, he removed to Minnesota and bought land, which he remained upon and improved for about twelve years. The following five years, he was a freighter in Faribault, Rice County. In 1875, he came to Iowa, and settled upon his present farm of 200 acres, valued at $30 per acre. It is situated in Norwalk and Neola Townships. Mr. Matson raises stock extensively, and sells from eighty to one hundred pounds of butter per week, in Council Bluffs. March 15, 1851, our subject married Miss Sarah C. Romine, born in Indiana in 1832, daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth (Johnston) Romine; he was born in Indiana about 1802; she died in Muscatine, Iowa, about 1839, and was the mother of six children. Mr. and Mrs. Matson have one son, Mervin Matson, born in 1855. Mr. Matson is a member of the Masonic fraternity, and a Republican in politics.