Duncan, A. Jerome

DUNCAN

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Date: 7/5/2021 at 12:34:56

History of Warren County, Iowa; Containing a History of the County, Its Cities, Towns & Etc., by Union Historical Company, 1879, p.702

DUNCAN, A. JEROME, farmer, Richland Township, Sec. 21 P. O. Hartford; was born in Kentucky, August 18, 1821, and when about twelve years of age, his father removed to Owen county, Indiana, where he made his home in that, and Morgan county, till he came to his present home, on the 24th day of October, 1852; his first occupation was the mercantile business, in which he engaged the year he came to the county, and followed it for about six years, and since that time, has followed his present calling; he was married in Morgan county, Indiana, September 4, 1854, to Miss Louisa Hendricks, of Kentucky, and by this union they have one daughter: Martha Dora; during the war, he was clerk of the commissary department, under Captain Noble, and was stationed at Lookout Mountain, Tennessee, for nine months, and returned home in March, 1865; he has been a member of the board of county supervisors, appointed first to fill vacancy, and after serving out the unexpired term, was elected to the office in 1863, and afterwards resigned to go to the war; he owns a finely improved farm of 104 acres, on which he has lived since 1865.