Sargent, Will N.

SARGENT, IRWIN

Posted By: Gary Norris (email)
Date: 1/7/2013 at 07:55:20

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

SARGENT, WILL N.—Deep River Twp—pg 746. P.O. Deep River, and now lives in the village of Dresden. He was born in Lyme, Grafton county, New Hampshire, on the 18th of April, 1856, and when an infant was brought to this county. During the eighteenth and nineteenth year of his age he taught school two terms of four months each, in district number nine, of Lincoln township, this county. Having learned his trade with his father, D.K. Sargent, with the means acquired in teaching he purchased the outfit of his present business, and has flourished as the village blacksmith ever since. On the 3d of March, 1880, he married Miss Cora Irwin, of Deep River township, who was born the 10th of April, 1863, in Muscatine county, Iowa. Mr. Sargent is, and has been for several years, local reporter for several county papers. Besides being a natural and fine musician, he is a young man of great influence and strong manly character.