Hornby, James

HORNBY

Posted By: Joyce Hickman (email)
Date: 11/13/2008 at 14:25:20

James Hornby

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.257, Waveland Twp.)
James Hornby, farmer, P. O. Elliott, Montgomery Co., Iowa, was born in England August 9, 1825; his father was born in England in 1774, and was a farmer; he died in 1865. Subject's mother, Elizabeth (Bramble) Hornby, was born in England in 1769, and died in 1844; the parents had twenty children, two of whom are living. Mr. Hornby received a common-school education, and began life as a farmer, which he has since continued. He has never become naturalized, but is of the Republican persuasion. He has been twice married - first, in 1845, to Miss Minerva Galtress, whose parents were natives of England. Mr. Hornby was married to his second wife, Miss Jane Spence, in 1854; her parents were English. Mr. Hornby is the father of the following children: Robert, born January 25, 1846; Faithful, August 19, 1849; Faith, January 31, 1850; Minerva, June 4, 1852; Thomas, February 13, 1857; Hope, February 5, 1859; Jane, July 14, 1862; George, December 25, 1863; Elizabeth, January 14, 1865; William, March 7, 1867; Harry, May 24, 1868; Eddie, July 24, 1870; Mary, September, 1872; Elsie, July 7, 1873, and James, July 1, 1876. Mr. Hornby is a Presbyterian. He emigrated to Canada in 1848, and ten years later, he moved to Pottawattamie County, Iowa, where he now resides.