McFerren, John

MCFERREN, PATTERSON

Posted By: Gary Norris (email)
Date: 2/27/2013 at 08:04:09

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

McFERREN, JOHN—Scott Twp—pg 768. Farmer, section 31, P.O. Montezuma. Born October 21, 1835, in Homer township, Medina county, Ohio, where he lived with his parents on a farm, attending school at intervals, till twenty-one years of age. He then went to Henry county, Illinois, where he engaged in farming till 1871, when he moved to pleasant township, this county, where he married February 28, 1877, Miss Patterson, of same place. By this union they have one son: Ernest Edgar (aged two years). While in Illinois Mr. McFerren enlisted in the One Hundred and Seventeenth Illinois infantry, and after about nine months’ service was discharged on account of sickness brought on by exposure.