Binegar, A.J.

BINEGAR, WOLF

Posted By: Marilyn Holmes (email)
Date: 11/23/2009 at 13:36:12

History of Poweshiek County Iowa (1880)
Page 673
SUGAR CREEK TOWNSHIP

BINEGAR, A.J.--Among the many enterprising farmers of this township none are more worthy of special mention than the subject of this sketch. Andrew J. Binegar was born in Highland county, Ohio, in the year 1832. He continued to live with his parents until he was about eighteen years of age, where he labored on a farm. In the year 1850 his parents removed to Iowa and settled in Union township, near what is now known as Forest Home. He continued to live in Union township until the year 1876, when he removed to the place where he now resides, which was the wild prairie, which he has not only reclaimed from its wild condition, but has it in a fine state of cultivation. He has a very fine farm, consisting of two hundred and forty acres of as fine undulating land as there is in Poweshiek county. He has good buildings, fine house and barn as well as out-buildings. His fences, and in fact his entire farm, bear testimony that Mr. B. is a successful farmer. He was married on the 12th day of October, 1858, to Miss Catherine Wolf, of Starke county, Ohio, by whom he has seven children living: James Franklin, Mary E., Elizabeth, Georgia A., Alice G., Lucy E., John S. Mr. Binegar took an active part in the Sugar Creek war.