Neely, Kinsey B.

NEELY

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Date: 6/29/2021 at 14:12:21

History of Warren County, Iowa from Its Earliest Settlement to 1908, by Rev. W. C. Martin, Clarke Publishing Co., Chicago, Illinois, 1908, p.798

KINSEY B. NEELY
Conspicuous among those of the younger generation who are reaping the reward of the thrift and industry displayed by the early settlers of the county, is Kinsey B. Neely, a prosperous and well-to-do farmer and stock-dealer resid­ing on section 30, Lincoln Township where he owns and operates a farm of two hundred and thirty-five acres of land, which he bought in 1900. He was born in Ralls County, Missouri April 7, 1865, the son of Paxton and Mary (Bancroft) Neely. His father was a native of Harrison County, Ohio. He was a wagon-maker by trade and shortly after his marriage removed to Mississippi. In 1864 he went to Ralls County, Missouri, where he remained for two years and then came to Warren County, Iowa. Here he opened up a farm and at the time of his death, which occurred in 1877, he owned seventy-five acres of land. The mother makes her home here and is now seventy-six years of age. Mr. and Mrs. Neely were the parents of five children, of whom Kinsey is the third in the order of birth.
Kinsey B. Neely spent the days of his boyhood and youth on his father's farm, receiving his education in the district schools of the community. His first business venture in his own behalf was naturally along agricultural lines, but ambitious of a more diversified experience he bought a stock of general merchandise in Summerset, and for ten years conducted a store there. He eventually sold his store and bought his present farm. He remodeled and built an addition to the house, tiled the land and put in new fencing, and divided the above tract of land into two good farms. In addition to general farming Mr. Neely feeds about a carload of cattle a year and raises some horses and hogs.
On December 13, 1895, occurred the marriage of Mr. Neely and Mrs. Rose Sherman Bingley, a daughter of Karl Sherman, of Indianola. Mrs. Neely was born and reared in Germany and was residing with her parents in Indianola at the time of her marriage to Mr. Neely. She has one son by her former marriage, Carl Bingley, residing on the home place. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Neely have been born four children, Kinsey, Mildred, Russell and Bernice.
Politically Mr. Neely has been a life-long Democrat, but in later years the principles set forth and sustained by Theodore Roosevelt have met with his unqualified approval, as has been the case with thousands of others who heretofore had always given their political allegiance to the democracy. It indicates a broader current of thought and a move in the right direction when principles are sustained in this manner and partisanship is relegated to the background of custom and prejudice. Fraternally, Mr. Neely belongs to the Modern Woodmen of America, and to the Modern Brotherhood of Indianola. He does not confine his church attendance to any one sect, but usually attends either the Baptist or the United Brethren churches. His engagement in mercantile pursuits as well as his extensive farming interests have brought him in contact with a large number of people and wherever known he is held in high regard. Those who know him best are numbered among his warmest friends.