Summers, James A.

SUMMERS

Posted By: Joyce hickman (email)
Date: 11/3/2008 at 16:29:56

James A. Summers

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.237, Silver Creek Twp.)
James A. Summers, farming, P. O. Macedonia. Mr. Summers was born in Ohio in 1847. His father moved to Iowa when he was about eighteen months old; then settled in Jefferson County, Iowa, when he was about ten years old. When he was about nineteen years old, Mr. Summers went back to Illinois, where he remained about five yaers. He was married, in Logan County, Ill, to 1869, Miss Huldah Ann Wickersham, born in Indiana; they have two children, one boy and one girl; came to Pottawattamie County, Iowa, June, 1871, settling on his present farm, which was raw prairie, paying $12.50 per acre. He has a farm of 120 acres, all in cultivation. His farming is raising corm and feeding it to stock. He is Republican in politics; is one of the Township Trustees; his farm is well improved with orchards, groves and good farm buildings. When he settled on his preent farm there were but three farms in the present School District, which is 2 x 3 miles; now it is all improved. Mr. Summers' father, William Summers, is still living, and resides in Jefferson County, Iowa, and is in his eighty-first year.