FERREE, Jerome Dial

FERREE

Posted By: Ellen Veden (email)
Date: 3/18/2007 at 21:58:43

-Ferree Family History - compiled by Colonel George Bennett Ferree, Chenoa Illinois and Jerome Dial Ferree
-Ferree, Jerome Dial Ferree - History of Wapello County, Iowa and Representative Citizens ed. Samuel B. Evans, Chicago, Biographical Publishing Company, Chicago, 1901
-Iowa Gazetter & Business Directory 1884-1885:
FERREE, JEROME D. sec. The Iowa mutual Aid Assoc. 107 E. Main
-Iowa State Census 1895 SUSAN F. FERREE AGE 49 BIRTHPLACE: iOWA lEE RACE:W COUNTY: OTTUMWA JEROME D. FERREE AGE 56 RACE: W BIRTHPLACE: IL RES. OTTUMWA, WAPELLO
-US FED census 1860 Montgomery Co., IL, tnshp 10 N range 5, W. Montgomery IL
gender: male, PO: Zanesville, Roll M653 214, pg 330
-Portrait & Bibliographical Album of Wapello County, Iowa 1887 JEROME DIAL FERREE ( pages 510/511]www.beforetime.net/iowagenealogy/wapello/PortraitAndBiographicalAlbum1887/F110.html

JEROME DIAL FERREE, Secretary of the Iowa Mutual Aid Association and of the Ottumwa Loan and Building Association, is a native of Illinois and was born near Hillsboro, Montgomery County, June 10, 1838.
The father of our subject is THOMAS M.FERREE, was a native of Bracken County, KY but in early life moved to Clermont County, Ohio and was there married to MISS ESTHER ANN NELSON, a native of that country.
After marriage, THOMAS M. FERREE engaged in mercantile pursuits in Clermont County and was thus occupied until 1835. During that time he emigrated to Illinois, purchased a farm in Montgomery County and remained on it until 1845. His wife, the mother of our subject, after the demise of her husband, returned to their farm in Montgomery County, Ill where she lived several years and then removed to Litchfield Ill where she died at the advanced age of seventy-one years, in October 1882.
-The parental family of our subject comprised of six children, of whom one died at the age of four years; MARSHALL O. FERREE enlisted in the United States service in 1861, was taken prisoner after the siege of Vicksburg and died in that foulest of Southern prisions, Andersonville. The four living children are SNOWDEN R.FERREE a resident of Wellington, Kan; THOMAS M.FERREE living in Morton County, Kan; SARAH ANTONIA FERREE wife of Joseph A. Coatney, a resident of Litchfield, IL subject.

JEROME DIAL FERREE is the second in order of birth of his parent's children. After the death of his father in St. Louis, he returned to Hillsboro, IL and there worked out by the month during the summer seasons on a farm and attended school winters and thus his life was spent until about 18 years of age. He then attended school in Litchfield for nearly three years receiving a good college education, which he afterward supplemented by teaching for almost three years.

In 1860 our subject was united in marriage with MISS SUSAN FRANCIS NELSON of Keokuk, Iowa. In 1864 in Hillsboro, Montgomery County, IL, JEROME DIAL FERREE engaged as an employee in the fire insurance business at Keokuk for himself and added thereto transactions in real estate. In 1871 he took the general agency of Iowa for the St. Louis Mutual Life Insurance Company and held that position until 1873 after which he was Special Agent for the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company for Iowa and in 1875 became general agent for Iowa of the Penn Mutual Life of Philadelphia.

JEROME DIAL FERREE then came to Ottumwa Iowa and organized the Ottumwa Loan and Building Association and in 1881 he organized the Iowa Mutual Aid Association of Ottumwa and has served as Secretary of the two latter companies since they were organized.

MR. AND MRS JEROME DIAL FERREE had nine children, two of whom are deceased-one dying at the age of two years [Sallie Bell] Ferree and the other when nine years old [Alice May Ferree].
The seven living are MARY Ellen (b. wife of Henry E. Redenbaugh, a resident of Newton, Kan; BONNIE LOUISE, wife of Thomas Bradford Gardner, GEORGE NELSON., FRANCES SUSAN, wife of W. Chambers, GRACE, wife of Sidney McAllister, DAISY LENORE., wife of John Franklin Kerfoot of Ottumwa and VIOLET MIGNONETTE, wife of Charles Fison Collisson of Keokuk, IA.

Politically, JEROME DIAL FERREE has always been a staunch Republican, but is not an active politician. He has been a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church since 1869 and his good wife belongs to the Episcopal Church."
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FERREE Lineage(www.ferreereunion.com)

1. Daniel Ferree (1646-1687)
m. to Marie Warrenbere (1649-1715)
2.John Ferree (1683-1769)
m. to Mary Musgrave (1685-1736)
3.Philip Ferree (1722-?)
m. to Sarah Evans (1735-?)
4.John Ferree (1761-1839)
m. to Rebecca Marsh (1771-1844)
5.Thomas M. Ferree (1801-1849)
m.to Esther Ann Nelson (1812-1880)
6.Jerome Dial Ferree (1838-1914)
m. to Susan Frances Nelson (1844-1919)
7. Violet Mignonette Ferree (1877-1940)
m. to Charles Fison Collisson (1875-1955)
8.Violet Sue Collisson (1906-1973)
m. to Vladimir Serge Veden (1900-1979)
9. Ellen Veden

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