Rains, A. T.

RAINS

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Date: 11/3/2008 at 16:21:50

A. T. Rains

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.236, Silver Creek Twp.)
A. T. Rains, famer, P. O. Living Spring, born in Cedar County, Mo., April 29, 1849, son of Lawrence and Mary (Froth) Rains; he, a farmer, born in Ohio in 1812, is still living on the hold homestead in Mills County, which he entered in Council Bluffs in 1851; she, born in Ohio in 1820, died in Mills County, this State, in 1876, and was the mother of seven children - three girls and four boys. Subject received his education in Mills County, this State, attending school a part of the time in a log cabin; commenced life as a farmer and married in Mills County, January 13, 1876, Johanna Wolfe, born in Mills County December 25, 1858, daughter of James and Sarah (Creech) Wolfe, she born in Kentucky, and he born in Missouri; was a member of Company A, Fourth Iowa Infantry, and died while in the army. Mr. and Mrs. Rains have four children, viz.: William Clarence, born September 12, 1876; Lavonia Alice, born October 30, 1877; Eddie H., born March 25, 1879; and Alta Pearl, born January 5, 1882. Subject was a member of the Home Guards; a Republican; lived in Mills County until 1876; bought a farm of 140 acres in 1874, partly improved, at $15 per acre; rented it for two years; moved onto it again in 1876, and greatly improved it since; set out a grove and an orchard, has good buildings, deals in stock, feeds cattle every winter and does general farming.