Duffield, J. R.

DUFFIELD, AINSWORTH, IRWIN

Posted By: Gary Norris (email)
Date: 2/11/2013 at 07:30:19

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

DUFFIELD, J.R.—Jefferson Twp—pg 963-4. Farmer, section 9, P.O. Belle Plaine, Benton county, Iowa. Was born September 26, 1815, in Adams county, Pennsylvania, where, after finishing his education, he engaged in teaching school for some fifteen years, and in 1850 moved to Rock Island county, Illinois, where he engaged in teaching school a part of the time till 1853, when he came to Iowa and settled where he now lives and owns 353 acres of good land, a part of the same being covered with timber. Mr. D., since coming to this county, has taught several terms in the district schools, but of late years has devoted all of his time to agricultural pursuits. He has been Superintendent of Schools and has held many other positions of trust, giving general satisfaction in all. He was married, in August, 1853, in Iowa county, to Miss Helen L. Ainsworth, a resident of this county and a native of New York, aged nineteen, and from this union there are two daughters: Kate Iris (aged twenty-five years) and Harriet Ella (aged twenty-three; now the wife of Jas. H. Irwin, of Jefferson township). Mrs. Duffield, after a lingering illness, died September 22, 1859, aged twenty-four years.