Dee, J.M.

DEE, SCOTT

Posted By: Marilyn Holmes (email)
Date: 3/24/2010 at 15:43:30

History of Poweshiek County Iowa 1880
Sheridan Township
Page 943

DEE, J.M.--Farmer and stock-raiser, section 10, P.O. Sheridan Center. Was born in Franklin county, Vermont, February 13, 1839, where he resided until 1853, and then moved with his parents to Ohio, and remained there three years; thence to Bureau county, Illinois, in the year 1855, at which place he resided until 1865, when he moved to Poweshiek county, of this State, and settled in Bear Creek township. He remained there five years and then moved to his present location. He was married, August 12, 1862, to Miss Emiline L. Scott, a native of New Brunswick. Their family consists of five children: Sarah D., Ida Ann, William Henry, Clara Emiline, Angeline. He is a man who has witnessed the entire growth of the county. He owns a fine farm of one hundred and twenty acres, all in good state of cultivation.