GWIN, NOAH W.

GWIN, TURLEY

Posted By: Marilyn Norris Holmes
Date: 4/14/2013 at 17:03:24

The 1880 History of Poweshiek County Iowa

Warren Township

Page 805

GWIN, NOAH W.--Farmer, section 14, P.O. Victor. Was born December 7, 1840, in Holmes county, Ohio, where he attended school till 1850, then came with his parents to this county and settled where his father now lives, and attended school and worked on the farm till February, 1869, when he settled where he now lives and owns 240 acres of well improved land, with a good house and orchard on the same. He was married, February 11, 1869, in this county, to Miss Rosa Turley, a resident of Scott county, Iowa, and a native of Wisconsin, born September 22, 1847. They have four children: Robert E. (born April 16, 1870), Elmer H. (born November 15, 1873), Lettie (born January 16, 1875) and Minnie Belle (born June 19, 1878). Mr. Gwin enlisted in company H. Twenty-eighth Iowa, at Brooklyn, but was not mustered into the service on account of defective eyesight.