Legg, H.H.

LEGG, FOSTER, RICH, KINGDON, BLOOD

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Date: 3/19/2010 at 13:32:45

History of Poweshiek County Iowa 1880
Malcom Township
Page 866

LEGG, H.H.--Farmer, section 29, P.O. Malcom. Was born in Stafford, New York, July 5, 1829, where he was educated and raised on a farm. He was there married to Miss Jane Foster, of that place, on the 27th of January, 1849. He moved from there to this county in the spring of 1871, and settled in this township. He is now farming eighty acres of land and is accumulting considerable stock. Mr. Legg is a man of continued industry, and is virtually the architect of hiw own fortune, as he commenced business for himself without any appreciable means, and now enjoys the possession of many comforts and blessings of life. He is surrounded by a family of three children: Eliza J. (now Mrs. C.K. Rich, of Genesee county, New York), Carrie L. (now Mrs. Charles Kingdon, of Genesee county) and Arthur A. They have lost one, a daughter, Mrs. Allie Law Blood. He is a man who has always taken a firm stand in favor of temperance and has always been a zealous worker for the cause.