Larington, Robert

LARINGTON

Posted By: Joyce Hickman (email)
Date: 11/13/2008 at 14:38:18

Robert Larington

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.258, Waveland Twp.)
Robert Larington, farmer, P. O. Griswold, was born in England March 18, 1830, son of Robert and Ann (Smith) Larington, natives of England; he died in England about 1838; she died in Minnesota in 1879, and was the mother of nine children, two of whom are dead. Mr. Larington began life as a sailor, at the age of thirteen; he came from England to Chicago, Ill., in 1849, worked in a car foundry one year, and then went to Minnesota, thence to Clayton County, iowa, and engaged in farm work. About 1870, he moved to Pottawattamie County and bought 120 acres of land. This he has improved and added to till he now has 226 acrse, worth about $32 an acre. He has a beautiful grove of maples of about three and a half acres, and some fruit. He has sixty-three head of cattle, ten horses and 135 hogs. Mr. Larington was a teamster for the Government during the greater part of the rebellion. He was married, in Chicago, Ill., in 1855, to Mary Ann Archer, born in Canada in 1833. They have four children living - Wilbert, Anna, Mary Jane and Eugene - one of whom is an adopted child. They lost two children in infancy. Mr. Larington is a Republican.