DURAM, JOHN

DURAM, ABBOTT, KLINE

Posted By: Marilyn Norris Holmes
Date: 4/14/2013 at 14:32:28

The 1880 History of Poweshiek County Iowa

Warren Township

Page 802

DURAM, JOHN--Farmer, section 31, P.O. Brooklyn. Was born September 4, 1854, in Ohio, and lived there till thirteen years old, then went with his parents to Madison county, Illinois, where he engaged in farming till 1878, when he came to Iowa and settled where he now lives and owns eighty acres of good land. Mr. D. was married, June 23, 1877, in St. Louis, Missouri, to Mrs. Carrie Abbott, who was born July 17, 1855, having a son by a former marriage, John Abbott (born November 10, 1875. By this union they have one daughter, Dollie Maud (born April 30, 1879). James M., father of the subject of this sketch, died in 1854, aged twenty-eight, having been kicked to death by a mule; his mother died in Madison county, Illinois, in 1871, aged forty-two. Mrs. Duram's father (John Kline) was born October 23, 1821, in Germany, and now lives in Madison county, Illinois, enjoying good health; her mother (Sarah) was born March 9, 1833, in Madison county, Illinois, and died there February 28, 1877.