Frizzell, Thomas

FRIZZELL, BUCHANAN

Posted By: Gary Norris (email)
Date: 12/18/2012 at 13:44:17

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

FRIZZELL, THOMAS - Bear Creek Twp - pg 832-3. Farmer and stock-raiser, section 9, P.O. Brooklyn. The subject of this sketch was born near Westminster, Maryland, in 1835. He moved with his parents to Holmes county, Ohio, in 1838 and was there educated and raised to manhood. In 1853 he became impressed with the idea that Iowa offered superior inducements to young men of energy and so came here the fall of that year and settled in this township. How well he has succeeded is evident to all, as he now enjoys the possession of a valuable farm of 480 cares of well cultivated land. His buildings are among the finest and most comfortable in his neighborhood. He is extensively engaged in stock-raising. His home is surrounded with groves, orchards, etc., and everything about his place presents the appearance of being under the care and management of a skillful agriculturalist. He owns a farm of 160 acres in Calhoun county, this State. He was married in 1864, to Miss Margaret Buchanan, of Brooklyn. Their family consists of four children: John Wilfred, Hamiett, Isabella, Ada and Martha Ellen. They have lost two, both infants. He is closely identified with the growth and prosperity of the county and has always kept pace with its progress.