WILKINS, T.J.

WILKINS, GIBBS

Posted By: Marilyn Norris Holmes
Date: 4/16/2013 at 09:39:06

The 1880 History of Poweshiek County Iowa

Warren Township

Page 820

WILKINS, T.J.--Farmer and stock-raiser, section 25, P.O. Victor. Was born April 2, 1837, in Wayne County, Ohio, where he lived on a farm with his father, who was a farmer, owning one hundred and sixty acres of good land. There young Wilkins attended school till the fall of 1850, when his mother died. In the spring of 1851 his father died. Then in the fall of 1851 young Wilkins went to La Salle county, Illinois, where he lived with his oldest brother and worked on his farm till November, *1844, when he returned to Ohio and attended the Hayesville Academy till the spring of 1856, then returned to Illinois and settled in Henry county where he hired with his oldest brother and engaged in farming till 1859; then went across the plains with a party to California, where he remained till 1863, then returned to La Salle county, Illinois, there again farming till the fall of 1875, when he came to Iowa and bought and settled where he now lives, and owns seventy-six acres of well-improved land. Mr. Wilkins is a true, active business member of the community in which he lives, always ready to help those in need; especially does he take an interest in the education of the young, and has been a member of the school board. He was married December 17, 1864, in Ottawa, Illinois, to Miss R.M. Gibbs, born March 11, 1842, in Illinois. They have three children: Dora Ann (born in 1865), Walter (born September 6, 1872), infant daughter (born March 18, 1880).

Transcriber Note: *looks to be a typo and probably should be 1854.