Dillard, Jacob M.

DILLARD

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Date: 6/28/2021 at 23:53:06

History of Warren County, Iowa from Its Earliest Settlement to 1908, by Rev. W. C. Martin, Clarke Publishing Co., Chicago, Illinois, 1908, p.955

JACOB M. DILLARD
Jacob M. Dillard, an active and progressive farmer and stock-raiser residing on section 17, Lincoln Township, has spent his entire life in this county, where he was born on the 27th of January 1857. His father, Jacob Dillard, was a native of Indiana, his birth occurring in Union County in 1818, and in that state he grew to manhood and married Miss Mary Markel, who was born in Virginia but was reared in Indiana. After farming in that state for some years Mr. Dillard came to Iowa about 1855 and purchased a tract of wild land in Greenfield Township, Warren County, where he developed and cultivated a farm of one hundred and twenty acres, making his home thereon until his death in 1898. His wife had passed away about 1893.
In the family of this worthy couple were five sons and three daughters but our subject is now the only survivor. He passed his boyhood and youth on the home farm and received good common-school advantages. In Decem­ber, 1880, he was married to Miss Lucinda A. Grether, a native of Ohio, and they began their domestic life upon a farm in Greenfield Township, which he operated several years. There his wife died January 27, 1890. Of the children born of that union, Dora is now a well educated young lady and is engaged in teaching school; and Mary May died March 1, 1905.
Mr. Dillard was again married in Norwalk, May 14, 1892, his second union being with Miss Mary J. Black, a daughter of Peter Black, one of the pioneers from Ohio. Unto them have been born three children, namely: Beulah, Homer E. and Clyde.
In 1900 'Mr. Dillard sold his farm in Greenfield Township and purchased his present place on section 17, Lincoln Township, where he has eighty acres under a high state of cultivation and well improved. It is fenced with woven wire, has a windpump and good buildings, including a new barn erected by Mr. Dillard. In connection with farming he is engaged in the raising and feeding of cattle, and also keeps a good grade of horses and cattle upon his place.
The Republican Party has always found in Mr. Dillard a staunch supporter of its principles and he has been honored with a number of local offices, serving as justice of the peace for six consecutive years in Greenfield Town­ship and as road supervisor, and now president of the school board, with which he has been identified for several years. He has served as a delegate to the county conventions of his party and has always faithfully discharged any duty that has devolved upon him, whether public or private. He is a member of Spring Hill Lodge, I. 0. 0. F., and both he and his wife are con­nected with the Yeomen and are active members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, of which Mr. Dillard is one of the stewards.