Elliott, J. A.

ELLIOTT, CAREY

Posted By: Gary Norris (email)
Date: 2/11/2013 at 07:31:21

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

ELLIOTT, J.A.—Jefferson Twp—pg 964. Farmer, section 23, P.O. Belle Plaine. Was born May 12, 1842, in Delaware county, New York, where after finishing his education he engaged in tilling the soil until 1862, when he enlisted in the One Hundred and Forty-fourth New York infantry, serving in the same eighteen months and participating in the siege of Fort Sumter and many minor encounters, and received his discharge on account of ill health. He returned to New York, where he remained till 1866, when he moved to Wisconsin and there engaged in farming until 1868, when he came to Iowa and settled where he now lives and owns 160 acres of good land, all in good state of cultivation. Mr. E. is at present justice of the peace, which position, as well as many others, he has filled with satisfaction to his neighbors and credit to himself. He was married, in February, 1868, in Wisconsin, to Miss Margaret Carey, a resident and native of Wisconsin, and in her twenty-third year, and from this union they have three daughters: Mary J. (aged eleven years), Nancy (aged six years), Margaret (aged three years).