Macy, J.

MACY, LITTLE

Posted By: Gary Norris (email)
Date: 1/17/2013 at 09:22:01

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

MACY, J.—Grinnell Twp—pg 912-13. Principal of the academy, Grinnell. Was born in Henry county, Indiana, on the 21st of June, 1842, and continued to live in that place until he was about fourteen years of age where he was brought up to labor on the farm in summer, and attended school in the winter. In 1858 he removed with his parents to Iowa, and settled in Sugar Creek in this county, where he assisted in opening up a new farm. In the year 1860 he entered Iowa College, at Grinnell, in the infancy of that institution, and attended for one year, and then he attended Spring Creek Academy near Oskaloosa (which institution was under the control of the Society of Friends) until 1864, when he was drafted into the army of the United States. As he was a Quaker, or Friend, he was exempt from fighting, and was assigned to service in the hospital department, not, however, without some argument with the officers of the regiment to which he had been assigned, and the generals in command in relation to the matter. After a settlement of the difficulties, and the termination of Sherman’s memorable march to the sea, he was assigned to duty in the hospital in Savannah, Georgia, where he served two months, and was removed by order of the War Department to the hospital in Springfield, Illinois, where he served until August, 1865, when he returned home and entered Iowa College. He has been ever since either in the capacity of history and political science. Was married, in the year 1872, to Miss Maud M. Little of Grinnell, who is a lady of refinement and culture and a graduate of Oberlin, Ohio. By this union they have one child living: Prescott. They have lost three children.