Noble, Edmond

NOBLE, BLAKE

Posted By: Gary Norris (email)
Date: 2/12/2013 at 08:27:23

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

NOBLE, EDMOND—Jefferson Twp—pg 969-70. Farmer, section 1, P.O. Belle Plaine. Was born August 24, 1849, in Mercer county, Illinois, where he attended school winters and worked on a farm summers till 1866 when he came to Iowa, and settled where he now lives and owns 75 acres of land, half of the same under good cultivation, the balance in timber; has a good house and orchard. Mr. Nobel owns some good horses, including a two years old filly which weighs 1,400 pounds. Mr. Noble was married, September 27, 1871, in this county, to Miss Helen, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Blake, of this county. They have one son, Omer (born March, 1874).