Coulson, Jabez

COULSON, BOYL

Posted By: Gary Norris (email)
Date: 2/13/2013 at 09:54:03

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

COULSON, JABEZ—Madison Twp—pg 952. Farmer, section 15, P.O. Brooklyn. Born in Columbiana county, Ohio, July 16, 1836; attended school till fifteen years of age, and then commenced working in his father’s tannery, where he continued till 1851, when he came to Iowa and settled in Cedar county, engaging in farming till 1854, when he came to this county and resumed farming. In 1863 he bought and settled where he now lives, his farm consisting of forty acres of well improved land. Mr. C. was married, in the fall of 1854; in this county, to Miss Mary E. Boyl, by whom he has three children: Perry C.P. (aged nineteen), Nettie M. (aged seventeen) and H.C. (aged eleven).