Shaver, P. J.

SHAVER, LOUGHRIDGE

Posted By: Gary Norris (email)
Date: 2/14/2013 at 09:06:53

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

SHAVER, P.J.—Madison Twp—pg 960. Farmer, section 9, P.O. Brooklyn. Was born January 1, 1839, in Ohio, where he lived the life of a farmer boy till 1850, when with his parents he came to Iowa and settled in Mahaska county, where he engaged in farming and working at the carpenter’s trade till 1874, when he came to this county and settled where he now lives and owns forty acres of well-improved land, with a beautiful residence site on the same. Mr. Shaver was married in the fall of 1867, in Mahaska county, To Miss Mary Loughridge of same county, and a native of Ohio, in the twenty-seventh year of her age. They have five children: Flora A. (aged twelve years), Estla K. (aged eleven years), Leander A. (aged nine years), Cora A. (aged three years) and Lizzie May (aged five months).