Pedicord, A. D.

PEDICORD

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Date: 10/24/2008 at 13:33:56

A. D. Pedicord

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.218, Pleasant Twp.)
A. D. Pedicord, farmer, P. O. Shelby, born in Morgan County, Ohio, October 23, 1836; son of Thomas and Susannah (Crossen) Pedicord; he, a farmer, born in Maryland in 1806, is still living on the old homestead in Morgan County, Ohio; she, born in Ireland in 1801, still lives on the old homestead. They have had six children, three boys and three girls. Subject went to school in Morgan County, Ohio, commenced life by running on the ohio and Muskingum Rivers from Zanesville to Pittsburgh, from 1856 till 1865, and married his first wife on the old homestead in Morgan County, ohio, January 23, 1855, Sarah Brabham, born in Loudoun County, W. Va., in 1841, daughter of T. J. and Martha (Stevenson) Brabham, both born in West Virginia, he, June 30, 1818; she, September 14, 1820. Mrs. Pedicord died September 2, 1869. Subject was married the second time in Henry County, Ill., January 18, 1870, his present wife being a member of the Presbyterian Church. he is a Democrat, a Freemason, a member of the A. H. T. S. and is the father of the following children: Thomas J., Mary Ann, Martha Susanna, Elizabeth Edna, John and Ella Bell, who died August 8, 1878. Subject was tax clerk in Illinois, Assessor for this township and filled several school offices for a number of years. He left Ohio in the fall of 1864, going to Rock Island County, Ill., farming there eight years, came to this township in the spring of 1872, bought 160 acres of wild land at $9 per acre, improved it, built a house and outbuildings, set out 2,000 shade and 300 fruit trees, which are in bearing condition, besides small fruits, bought forty acres of wild land at $7.50 per acre, from the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad Company, bought forty acres of improved late at $15 per acre, from John K. Cooper, Company Superintendent, and 130 acres also improved at $22.75. He built a fine two story residence in 1882, 18 x 28 feet and 18 x 18 feet with bay window, which cost $1,600.