CATTERSON, THOMAS

CATTERSON, MCCURDY, HANEN, STEWART

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Date: 4/15/2013 at 16:04:53

The 1880 History of Poweshiek County Iowa

Sugar Creek Township

Page 674-5

CATTERSON, THOMAS - Farmer and stock-raiser, section 33, township 78, range 16, P.O. New Sharon. Was born in Lawrence county, Pennsylvania, October 3, 1833, where he continued to live until 1865. While residing in Pennsylvania he engaged in farming exclusively. In 1865 he removed to Iowa and settled in Johnson county, near Iowa City, where he engaged in farming and sheep-raising for about two years, and then removed to this county and purchased the farm which he now occupies. He has been married three times. In 1860 he was married to Margaret A. McCurdy, who only lived about two years, and by whom he had one child which died in infancy. He was married a second time to Angeline Hanen, in the later part of 1863, with whom he lived about eleven years. As the result of this union they had five children, whose names are: Sherman, James Elmore, Frank, Mary, and Rozetta. He was married a third time to Miss Mary Stewart, in the year 1875, who is still living, and by whom he has two children: Clarence and Nancy. He has eighty acres of splendid farm land, and one of the handsomest building spots in this section of the county, situated upon a gently sloping eminence, sloping both north and south, and from the summit of which one has a beautiful view of the Skunk River valley, both up and down. Lynnville, six and one-half miles distant, is plainly visible from the north slope. His residence is surrounded on the north by a beautiful natural grove of oak, hickory elm, and basswood. A creek passes through the east side of his farm, making it one of the best stock farms in the country.