Greenfield, Silas

GREENFIELD

Posted By: Karon Velau (email)
Date: 6/29/2021 at 11:31:31

History of Warren County, Iowa from Its Earliest Settlement to 1908, by Rev. W. C. Martin, Clarke Publishing Co., Chicago, Illinois, 1908, p.833

SILAS GREENFIELD
Silas Greenfield, now living retired at Milo, was born in Bartholomew County, Indiana, January 5, 1835, a son of Campbell and Jane (Garner) Green­field, both natives of Tennessee. The mother of our subject passed away in 1837. Mr. Greenfield was subsequently again married, in the vicinity of Vincennes Indiana, where he resided until the time of his demise at an advanced age. Unto Campbell and Jane (Garner) Greenfield were born but two child­ren: a daughter who died in infancy; and Silas, of this review.
The last named was reared in the state of his nativity, and in the year 1870 came to Warren County, Iowa, where for a number of years he was suc­cessfully engaged in farming. For the past eleven years however, he has lived retired in Milo, having gained a competence through the careful control of his agricultural interests.
Mr. Greenfield was united in marriage, in Indiana, to Miss Elizabeth Cline, a native of Tuscarawas County, Ohio, where her birth occurred April 30, 1840. Her parents, Philip and Margaret (Kogan) Cline, were farming people and for three years resided in Missouri, but subsequently removed to Indiana, where they died. Mrs. Greenfield was the youngest of eleven children.
In his political views Mr. Greenfield is a Democrat and has served as trustee of White Breast Township. He resided for twelve years in Lincoln Township and there acted as school director. Both he and his wife are mem­bers of the Christian Church, and are highly respected people of the county, having gained an extensive circle of warm friends during the long period of their residence here.