Korns, Moses

KORNS, LANE, SHREVE

Posted By: Gary Norris (email)
Date: 2/11/2013 at 07:40:26

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

KORNS, MOSES—Jefferson Twp—pg 967. Farmer, section 31, P.O. Victor. Was born September 3, 1835, in Holmes county, Ohio, where, after attending school, he engaged in tilling the soil till 1857, then went to New York, thence by water to California and back by land, passing through Iowa and Illinois, and arriving in Ohio in 1861, where he again engaged in farming till the fall of 1863, when he came to Iowa and began to improve the farm where he now lives and owns four hundred and seventy-six acres with a good house finely located and surrounded by fruit and shade trees. Mr. Korns has been twice married; first, in December, 1863, to Miss S. Lane, a native of Ohio, aged twenty-two, and in January, 1865, she died after a short illness. Mr. Korns, for his second wife, in May, 1866, married Mrs. Nancy Jane Shreve of Ohio; they have six children: William Ora (aged fourteen years), Lizzie (aged twelve years), Lena (aged ten years), M. (aged eight years), Elmer (aged six years), Clarence (aged three years).