Greenfield, Edwin C.

GREENFIELD

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Date: 6/29/2021 at 11:29:51

History of Warren County, Iowa from Its Earliest Settlement to 1908, by Rev. W. C. Martin, Clarke Publishing Co., Chicago, Illinois, 1908, p.595

EDWIN C. GREENFIELD
The unfaltering diligence and intelligently directed labor which consti­tutes the basis of all success are characteristic in the life of Edwin C. Green­field, a wide-awake and energetic farmer and dairyman living on section 28, Lincoln Township. He owns two good farms in this county, having eighty acres on the home place, which is a neat and well improved property within two miles of Indianola. He also has another well improved tract of about eighty acres, and his farms return to him a gratifying annual income.
Mr. Greenfield is well known in this county, where he has lived since 1870. He was only four years of age at the time of his arrival, for his birth occurred in Wabash County, Indiana, August 28, 1866. His father, Silas Greenfield, was reared in Indiana and was married in Wabash County to Miss Elizabeth Cline. In 1870 he came to Warren County and settled upon a farm. He now resides in Milo, where he is living retired.
Edwin C. Greenfield, brought to Iowa at the age of four years, was edu­cated in the common schools and remained with his father through the period of his boyhood and youth, early being trained to habits of thrift and industry which have brought forth rich fruits in his later life. After attaining his majority he began farming on his father's land in Lincoln Township. As a companion and helpmate for life's journey he chose Miss Effie Hodson, whom he married in Des Moines, December 30, 1891. She was born, reared and educated in this state and was a student in the Indianola High School, where prior to her marriage she successfully engaged in teaching. She is a sister of L. C. Hodson, of Indianola, who was formerly sheriff of Warren County. Her father was a farmer and served as county auditor of Warren County. He was one of the prominent and influential residents of this part of the state, reared his family here and continued to reside in Indianola until his death. His widow still survives him and now makes her home with her daughter, Mrs. Greenfield.
After their marriage Mr. Greenfield took charge of the Hodson farm, and with characteristic energy began its development and improvement. He re­built the house, also put up two good barns and has added other outbuildings for the shelter of grain and stock. He likewise planted an orchard, has estab­lished a feedmill on his place, and in fact added many modern improvements.
In March, 1896, he took possession of his other farm and now cultivates both places. He has been engaged in the dairy business for three years, com­mencing with six head of cows and with but three customers the first day. He now milks from thirty to thirty-five cows and supplies about one hundred and fifty families with milk and cream. He devotes most of his time to the dairy business and is well known in this connection.
Mr. and Mrs. Greenfield have one son, Gerald A. In his political views Mr. Greenfield is a Republican, but the honors and emoluments of office have no attraction for him, as he prefers to concentrate his energies to his business affairs in which he has made signal success. He attends the Friends' Church of Ackworth and is a member of the, Maccabees, a fraternal insurance order. He is well known in Indianola as a successful and progressive farmer and dairyman and a man of good business ability who has capably used his oppor­tunities and the chances which have come to him for business advancement and growth.