Howe, Freeman

HOWE, RIDENOUR, SMITH

Posted By: Gary Norris (email)
Date: 2/11/2013 at 07:37:14

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

HOWE, FREEMAN—Jefferson Twp—pg 966. Farmer and stock-raiser, section 12, P.O. Belle Plaine. Was born November 21, 1833, in Edgar, Illinois, where he attended school till nine years of age, then in 1842 came with his parents to Iowa, and settled in Cedar county, where, after finishing his education, he engaged in farming in various places till 1869, when he came to this county, where he owns 160 acres of well improved and stocked land. Mr. Howe was married, February 14, 1854, in Cedar county, Iowa, to Miss Malinda Ridenour, a resident of Cedar county; she was born in 1833, in Ohio, and came with her parents to Iowa in 1833. Nine children are the fruits of this union: Almira (aged twenty-five; now the wife of L. Smith, of this county), James Frank (aged twenty-two), Millard F. (aged nineteen), Elizabeth (age seventeen), Julia M. (aged fifteen), Luella (aged thirteen), Harry and Henrietta, twins (aged nine), and Wellington (aged four). They have buried two: an infant in 1854 and Legrand B. (1875, aged one year and eleven months).