Harry Brewer
BREWER, ADAMS, MCGREW
Posted By: Volunteer - Rich Lowe
Date: 1/9/2002 at 18:34:59
BREWER, HARRY, farmer, Sec. 12; P. O. Given; was born in Cooperstown, Otsego county, N.Y., November, 19, 1815, he emigrated to Whiteside, county, Ills., in 1835; he came to Van Buren county, Iowa, in the spring of 1842, and to this county, April 20th, 1843, and staked out his claim after midnight on May 1st., this being as soon as they were allowed; he entered 160 acres and has now 550 acres. He married Hellen M. Adams, March 13, 1844. She was born in Licking county, Ohio, December 16, 1826; she came to Iowa in 1839, and to this county in April, 1844; have six sons and one daughter, Emily, (now Mrs. F. McGrew,) George W., Frank P., Edward D., Webster L., John E., and Albert H.
Source: History of Mahaska County, Iowa
Des Moines: Union Historical Company, 1878.
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