Pontious, John C.

PONTIOUS

Posted By: Joyce Hickman (email)
Date: 11/3/2008 at 13:55:02

John C. Pontious

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.236, Silver Creek Twp.)
John C. Pontious, farmer, P. O. Silver City, Mills County, born in Jefferson County, Ohio, January 27, 1830, son of George H. and Hannah (Call) Pontious; he a mechanic, born in Pennsylvania December 12, 1795, is still living in Winfield, Cowley Co., Kan.; she, born in Ohio in 1797, died in Jefferson County, same State, in 1849. They had eleven children - eight boys and three girls. Subject was educated in Jefferson County, Ohio; commenced life as a mechanic, and married in Cincinnati, Ohio, January 21, 1852, Rebecca Smith, born in Reading, Ohio, February 16, 1832, daughter of James and Margarette (Brown) Smith, he born in New Jersey in 1795, she in Philadelphia, Penn., in 1807. Mr. and Mrs. Pontious have one son, Harvey W., born in Cincinnati, Ohio, November 24, 1852, and was educated in Bloomington and Lincoln, Ill. Subject is a member of the Christian Church; a Republican; has filled township offices; has been a mechanic, a farmer, stockman, real estate dealer, and is largely interested in Colorado mines; he lived in Lincoln, Ill., until 1876, when he moved to Council Bluffs; thence to this township, where he has a fine farm of 200 acres, in a good location, well improved, and feeds and deals in Short-Horn cattle and Poland-China hogs; is greatly interested in all educational matters, and has the interests of his township at heart.