Work, John M.

WORK

Posted By: Joyce Hickman (email)
Date: 11/18/2008 at 13:41:20

John M. Works

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.267, Wright Twp.)
John M. Works, farmer, P. O. Walnut, was born in Orange County, Vt., March 21, 1832. He is the son of Elias and Sarah (Tuffts) Work, both natives of Connecticut. His father died when he (subject) was fourteen years of age, and the mother died shortly afterward. The father was a cabinet-maker by trade. Our subject was educated in the schools of Williamstown, Orange Co., Vt. After the death of his parents, he worked with his brother in a wagon shop until he (subject) came West in 1855. He was married, the previous year, in Vermont, to Martha D. Conner, born in the same State April 25, 1832. She is the daughter of Gideon and Betsey (Townsend) Conner, both natives of Vermont, and both died in Bureau County, Ill. The year after his marriage, our subject moved to Sheffield, Bureau Co., Ill., where he started a wagon shop, which he operated for about fifteen years. In 1871, he came to this county, locating near Walnut, where he farmed till the spring of 1881, when he traded for his present place, which consists of 114 acres in Section 7, Wright Township, where he at present resides. He has six children living - Charles E., born May 30, 1855; Laura N., born August 18, 1858; Willie D., born October 18, 1860; Perley M., born August 21, 1863; Elle E., born November 12, 1869; and Henry T., born September 12, 1873. In politics, our subject is a Republican.