GRANT, HENRY

GRANT, AGERTY, BIGLER, RYAN

Posted By: Marilyn Norris Holmes
Date: 4/14/2013 at 16:35:27

The 1880 History of Poweshiek County Iowa

Warren Township

Page 804

GRANT, HENRY--Farmer and stock-raiser, section 15, P.O. Victor. Was born March 18, 1827, in Edinburgh, Scotland, where, after receiving his education, he engaged in farming till twenty-six years old, then learned the mason's trade and worked at the same until 1850, when he came to the United States and worked at his trade in Buffalo, New York. In 1852 he went to Ohio, there worked at his trade till September, 1854, when he came to Iowa, and engaged extensively in farming and stock-raising in Iowa county till 1865, when he settled where he now lives, and owns 380 acres of good land all under good cultivation. He was married November, 1851, in Buffalo, New York, to Miss Ellen Agerty, who was born in Ireland, in 1828; they have seven children: Margaret (aged twenty-eight; now the wife of Edward Bigler, of Shelby county, Iowa), Mary (aged twenty-six; wife of T.J. Ryan, of Warren township), John (aged twenty-three), Henry (aged twenty-one), Sarah (aged eighteen), Ulysses (aged sixteen) and Ellen (aged thirteen).