Wainwright, Edward

WAINWRIGHT, STRASSER

Posted By: Marilyn Norris Holmes (email)
Date: 11/30/2012 at 00:52:44

1880 History of Poweshiek County Iowa

DEEP RIVER TOWNSHIP

Page 748

WAINWRIGHT, EDWARD--Section 32, P.O. Thornburg. His grandfather was a native of England, where his father was born in 1824. Edward was also born in England on the 29 of August, 1847. His father immigrated with his entire family to the United States when Edward was four years old, arriving here July 2, 1851. They farmed in Morgan county, Ohio, where Edward worked for his father until he was twenty-one years, when he went to Winnebago county, Illinois, and farmed there for one year, when he immigrated to Iowa and worked a rented farm in Keokuk county for about nine years. He then commenced improving his present farm and moved to it in the spring of 1879. Mr. W. married, on the 27th of December, 1874, Miss Catharine Strasser, of Prairie township, Keokuk county, Iowa, who was born in Ohio, July 4, 1848. They have one child, Thomas Franklin (born December 1, 1875). He owns 90 acres of land, which is in splendid condition.