LINDER, JOHN A.

LINDER, BEDWELL

Posted By: Marilyn Norris Holmes
Date: 4/15/2013 at 11:53:59

The 1880 History of Poweshiek County Iowa

Warren Township

Page 810-811

LINDER, JOHN A.--Farmer, section 36, P.O. Victor. Was born November 23, 1853, in Iowa county, Iowa, where he attended school till 1862, then moved with his parents onto a farm near Montezuma, where he lived till 1864, when he returned to Iowa county and worked on a farm till 1866; he then moved with his parents to Miami county, Kansas, where he engaged in farming till 1870; he then engaged in teaching school during the summer and attending school in the winter till the spring of 1874, when he went to St. Joseph, Missouri, and clerked in a store till August, 1876; he then came to this county and taught school during the winter and worked on a farm in summer till the spring of 1879, when he settled where he now lives asnd cultivates D.L. Lyons' farm of eighty acres. Mr. L. was married, March 27, 1878, in Washington township, this county, to Miss Mary A., daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jas. R. Bedwell, who was born March 24, 1858, in Iowa. They have one daughter, Jessie May (born December 29, 1878). Nathaniel, the father of the subject of this sketch, was born in 1818, and when seventeen years of age commenced to preach the gospel; Susan H., his mother, was born in 1823; they both now live in Holt county, Missouri.