Daniel DENNISON

DENNISON, RIGGS, FOSTER, DUDLEY, MCMINN, MILLIGAN, BARTHOLOMEW

Posted By: Sharon R Becker (email)
Date: 12/31/2008 at 05:32:19

Daniel DENNISON, deceased, one of the honored pioneers of Wapello County, was born in Kentucky in 1797, and was the son of William and Margaret DENNISON. The parental family included the following children - William, Madison, Elizabeth, Catharine, Mary, John, Alexander and Daniel, our subject being the sixth in order of birth. William DENNISON emigrated from Lexington, Ky., to Illinois in 1818, the same year that it was admitted into the Union as a State. He had been a soldier in the Revolutionary War under General St. CLAIR, and died in 1838.

The subject of this history removed to Illinois in 1836, and seven years later came to Iowa. In 1843 he entered a claim of 240 acres in Pleasant Township, and commenced the improvement of a farm, living with his family in a tent until he could roll up logs enough for a cabin. This latter served their purpose for a number of years, and being prospered in his labors he afterward erected a good frame house, and upon the homestead thus established passed the remainder of his days. His wife, before her marriage, was Miss Sallie S. RIGGS, and they became the parents of six children, all of whom are living, the youngest being forty-two years of age: Parthena is the widow of Thomas FOSTER; Polly A. is the widow of Hon. Charles DUDLEY; William S. is in Kansas; Margaret E. became the wife of Jacob T. McMINN, of Wapello County; Hanna E.; Mrs. William N. MILLIGAN, lives in Ringgold County, this State; Sarah L. married Edward F. BARTHOLOMEW of the same county [Ringgold County].

Mr. and Mrs. DENNISON were members in good standing of the Christian Church for many years, and carried out in their daily lives the principles of the religion which they professed. They were held in the highest esteem by their neighbors and associates, and endured with their fellow-pioneers the privations and hardships incident to the settlement of a new country. They were widely and favorably known throughout this county for their kindly and charitable deeds, and were blest with many years, the father dying in 1870, at the age of seventy-three years, and the mother in 1877, aged seventy-two.

Source: Portrait and Biographical Album of Wapello County, Iowa. Chapman Brothers, Pub. Chicago. 1887.

Transcription by Sharon R. Becker, 2008