Tinker, Edwin

TINKER, THOMPSON, SLIGGLE, STERLING, FIMFORD, SCOTT, JEWELL

Posted By: Gary Norris (email)
Date: 12/23/2012 at 07:57:27

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

TINKER, EDWIN—Bear Creek Twp—pg 854. Farmer and stock-raiser, section 8, P.O. Brooklyn. Was born in what is now Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on the 11th day of March, 1812. He was there raised to manhood on a farm and educated in a log school-house, at a subscription school. It was the best the country afforded at that time, and was built on the cob-house principle, with substantial puncheon floors, rude benches made of hewn logs, the windows being an opening between two logs, the space covered with greased paper to admit light. He was married in Butler county, Pennsylvania, November 26, 1840, to Miss Arabella Thompson, of that county. In 1866 he came to Warren township this county, where he began his arduous task of making a home on the then wild prairie of Iowa. In this he succeeded beyond his expectations. In the spring of 1867 he moved to his present location, where he owns a farm of 355 acres of cultivated land, well stocked. His family consists of eleven children living: James, George E., Hannah, Joshua, Sarah (now Mrs. D. Sliggle, of this county), Matilda (now Mrs. M.V. Sterling, of this county), Martha (now Mrs. Paris Fimford, of Cedar county, Nebraska), Charlotte (now Mrs. Wm. Scott, of Texas), Wesley, Arabella (now Mrs. Charles Jewell, of this county). He lost one, Wainwright, who died during his service as a soldier.