Stackhouse, Allen

STACKHOUSE, MALCOLM

Posted By: Gary Norris (email)
Date: 1/7/2013 at 07:59:32

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

STACKHOUSE, ALLEN—Deep River Twp—pg 747. Section 19, P.O. Tilton. His ancestors were from England; his grandfather was born in New York; his father was a farmer, born in Burlington, Vermont, about 1812; raised in Pennsylvania, but in the fall of 1837 moved to Henry county, Illinois, where Allen was born on the 23d of August, 1841. He was one of fourteen children. He worked on his father’s farm until of age, when he enlisted in company D, One Hundred and Twelfth Illinois volunteers, and served three years, participating in the battles in East Tennessee raid, Knoxville, Resaca, Atlanta, Franklin, Nashville and Wilmington, besides many skirmishes; never received a scratch. After receiving an honorable discharge, on June 20, 1865, he returned home and commenced farming. Two years later he removed with his wife to Missouri, where he improved land and lived upon a farm in Johnson county until the spring of 1870, when he immigrated to Iowa, arriving in Deep River township in March. After renting a farm from Thomas Harris for three years, he bought and moved to his present place March 3, 1873. Mr. S. married in Cambridge, Illinois, on the 24th of December, 1866, Miss Harriet Malcolm, of Cambridge, who was born in Cambridge township, Henry county, October 28, 1848. Their union has been productive of four children: Elbert L. (born November 8, 1869), Maud (born June 8, 1872), Charles (born April 7, 1876) and William W. (born September 21, 1878). Mr. S. owns a large and well regulated farm of 300 acres.