Grinnell, L. P.

GRINNELL, KNIGHT

Posted By: Gary Norris (email)
Date: 1/14/2013 at 08:29:48

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

GRINNELL, L.P—Grinnell Twp—pg 899-900. Farmer, section 9, P.O. Grinnell. Was born in New Haven, Addison county, Vermont, where he was educated and raised. After completing his schooling he engaged in farming until the spring of 1856 when he came to Iowa, settling at Grinnell. He resumed farming and now owns eighty acres of well improved land. On the 8th of February, 1862, he took for the partner of his joys and the sharer of his ills Miss Harriet Knight. They were married in New Hampshire. Their family consists of two children living: Josiah B. and Harriet P. Have lost two: Lucy R. and George W.