Brand, Dewitt C. (1824-1906)

BRAND

Posted By: Karon Velau (email)
Date: 11/1/2017 at 17:54:44

BRAND, DEWITT C., farmer, Sec. 18, West Washington Township [now Lincoln Township]; P. O. Spring Hill; born in Erie county, New York, June 27, 1824; and lived there till twenty-five years old; he came first to this county in the fall of 1848, and remained till the fall of 1850; then returned to his old home in New York, and was married to Miss Louisa Ranney in 1850, a native of New York; he then came back to this county in March, 1854, and since that time has lived on the same farm; has a family of eight children living; Alice (wife of Henry Brown), Sarah, George, Minnie, Warren, Mary, Carrie, Nellie; one deceased: Francis D.; owns an improved farm of 166 acres.
Source:History of Warren County, Iowa, containing a History of the County, Its Cities, Towns, & etc., Union Historical Co.; Des Moines, IA, 1879, p.674