Cale, John H.

CALE

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Date: 7/5/2021 at 00:22:29

History of Warren County, Iowa; Containing a History of the County, Its Cities, Towns & Etc., by Union Historical Company, 1879, p.736

CALE, JOHN H., farmer, Linn Township, Sec. 6; P. O. Commerce; is a native of West Virginia, born December 6, 1822, and lived there till fourteen years old, when he emigrated, with his father, to Wayne county, Indiana, and lived there three years; then to Indianapolis; from there to Bloomington, Illinois, and remained for five years; then to Scott county, this State, and from there to this county in the spring of 1855; he was married in Marion county, Indiana, January 27, 1848, to Miss Amelia Penry, a native of Ohio, born April 16, 1825; they have a family of three sons and three daughters, living: Roxana M., Iris G. (wife of Samuel Knouf), Dewitt D., Eldora D., R. D., Douglass D., and David R., deceased; owns a farm of 160 acres.