Fraser, Donald

FRASER, COULSON

Posted By: Gary Norris (email)
Date: 2/13/2013 at 09:56:58

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

FRASER, DONALD—Madison Twp—pg 953. Farmer, section 26, P.O. Brooklyn. Was born October 20, 1831, in Scotland, where after finishing his education he engaged in landscape gardening until his twenty-first year, when he immigrated to the United States, and after working in Illinois at saw-milling and farming some years in 1856 he came to Iowa and engaged in farming, and in 1863 bought forty acres to which he added forty more and improved the same, and in the spring of 1880 sold his farm and bought his present farm of 125 acres, which is all under cultivation, having a splendid residence site surrounded by fruit and shade trees. He has held a number of positions of trust, giving general satisfaction. Mr. Fraser promptly answered to the call of his country in the hour of her need, and enlisted as a recruit in the Fourth Iowa cavalry, February 20, 1864, and served till the close of the war, being in sixteen engagements. He was married, September 22, 1859, in Sheridan township, Poweshiek county, to Miss Martha Jane Coulson, of same place, and from this union they have six children living: Catharine A. (aged twenty years), Sallie May (aged fourteen years), John S. (aged twelve years), Walter A. (aged ten years), Edna V. (aged eight years) and Rufus O. (aged six months). They have lost one, Harvey A.D. (died in 1857, aged three years and ten months).