Warner, A. W.

WARNER

Posted By: Joyce Hickman (email)
Date: 11/10/2008 at 14:09:22

A. W. Warner

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.249, Valley Twp.)
A. W. Warner, farmer, P. O. Hancock, born in Indiana in 1850, son of Alpheus and Catharine (Huxford) Warner; was educated in the common schools of Indiana; began by working by the month; came to Iowa in 1874, to Marion County, and was in Marion County for about sixteen months, then came to Pottawattamie County and settled on his present place. Parents both dead. When he came to present farm, it was partly broken out, and a house, 12 x 16, on it; but that was all the improvements. Was married, in spring of 1877, in Pottawattamie County to Miss Mary Victoria Grifith, born in Iowa. They have three children - two girls and one boy. His farming is mostly grain-raising. His farm here consists of eighty acres, buying in December, 1875, when land was high and paid $20 per acre.