Drake, J. C.

DRAKE, QUICK

Posted By: Gary Norris (email)
Date: 12/18/2012 at 13:32:08

The History of Poweshiek County, Iowa
Des Moines: Union Hist. Co., 1880.

DRAKE, J.C. - Bear Creek Twp - pg 830. Farmer and stock-raiser, section 18, P.O. Brooklyn. Was born in Holmes county, Ohio, March 12, 1827, where he was raised and educated on a farm. His father (Jesse) was a farmer. Our subject married, in his native county, in 1850, Miss Martha Quick, of the same place. In the fall of 1853 he came to Iowa, and in the spring of 1854 located on the same section on which he now lives. He purchased 740 acres, which he subsequently improved. He now owns 234 acres, all under cultivation. His family consists of five children: Mary Edith (wife of R.T. Cummings), Cincinnatus G., Candance, Seward Lincoln and Lillian. Lost one, an infant.