Cone, William

CONE

Posted By: Gary Norris (email)
Date: 2/11/2013 at 07:26:40

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

CONE, WILLIAM—Jefferson Twp—pg 962-3. Farmer, section 35, P.O. Victor. Was born April 25, 1835, in Chester, Windsor county, Vermont. There he attended school until 1844, when, in company with his parents, he moved to Knox county, Illinois, where, after finishing his education, he engaged in tilling the soil for some years. Then removed to Henry county, Illinois, where he continued to farm till 1867, when he came to Iowa and located where he now lives and owns forty acres of well improved land. Mr. C. was married, August 19, 1857, in Henry county, Illinois, to Miss Eliza M. Cone, a resident of the same county and a native of Vermont, then aged seventeen. They now have five children: Edward T. (aged twenty-two years), Alfred W. (aged sixteen years), Grace (aged fourteen years), May (aged ten years), Ernest (aged five years).