Squires, S. L.

SQUIRES, PAYNE, BAILEY, BARRETT, MANATT, ROBERTSON, CUNNINGHAM

Posted By: Gary Norris (email)
Date: 2/12/2013 at 08:37:18

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

SQUIERS, S.L.—Jefferson Twp—pg 972-3. Farmer and stock-raiser, section 6, P.O. Chelsea, Tama county. Born June 18, 1812, in Grand Isle county, Vermont, where, after completing his education, he taught school winters, and worked on a farm summers until 1842, when he moved to Aurora, Illinois, where he engaged in tilling the soil until 1856, when he came with his family to Iowa, and located where he now lives and owns 500 acres of well-improved and stocked land, including 100 acres of good timber with a good house, beautifully located on the same. When he came to this county the country was very new and game was more plenty than money; he sold hogs for $1.87 per hundred in Iowa City, and in the winter of 1857-8 paid $1.50 per bushel for corn to keep his forty head of cattle from starving, but could not get enough to keep them through the winter, and lost half of the same. Mr. Squiers being a kind and obliging neighbor, a good farmer and thorough business man has the respect and confidence of all who know him. He was married, March 24, 1841, in Swanton Falls, Vermont, to Miss Parizade Payne, a resident and native of same county, aged 20. They have eleven children: Delia L. (aged 38 years; now the widow of Clark L. Bailey, of Carroll City, Iowa), Susan P. (aged 36 years; now the wife of Joseph C. Barrett, of Tama City), Horace L. (aged 34 years; married and lives in Carroll county, Iowa), Agnes (aged 31 years), Franklin B. (aged 29 years; married and lives in Madison township), Cornelia A. (aged 27 years; now the wife of James Manatt, of Warren township), John S. (aged 25 years), Alfred P. (aged 23 years), Herman H. (aged 22 years), Rosa B. (aged 20 years; now the wife of Orrison Robertson, of Brooklyn) and Jessie E. (aged 18 years; now the wife of C. Cunningham, of this township), and they have two children buried in Illinois. Mrs. Squiers’ mother is now eighty-five years of age and lives with them.