WHERRY, D. P.

WHERRY, PAGITT

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Date: 11/27/2012 at 09:29:37

The 1880 History of Poweshiek County Iowa

Warren Township

Page 818

WHERRY, D. P. - Farmer, section 31, P. O. Brooklyn. Was born March 28, 1837, in Guernsey county, Ohio, where he lived the life of a farmer boy attending school winters and working on the farm summers till 1850, then came to Iowa, and after stopping in this county some months, went to Jones county, where he engaged in farming till September 1, 1860. Then he returned to Ohio and remained till the fall of 1863, when he helped his cousin bring out a drove of sheep to Jones county, Iowa. After remaining there a few months he came to this county, locating in Lincoln township where he engaged in farming his father's farm, then bought and worked the same, selling it in 1865, where he bought 240 acres and after improving the same sold it in 1868, then traveled around till the spring of 1874, when he settled where he now lives, having lately sold his farm of 160 acres of well improved land. Mr. Wherry was married March 12, 1873, in Lincoln township, to Miss Margaret R. Pagitt, who was born in 1847, in Ohio. They have four children: James H. (aged six), David T. (aged three), Samuel E. (aged two) and Daisy (born in June 1880). Joseph Wherry father of D.P. died in Ohio, July 1876, aged eighty-four years.