Samuel Egbert

EGBERT, JONES

Posted By: Gordon Felland <gfelland1@comcast.net>
Date: 3/5/2008 at 21:27:33

Samuel Egbert settled in Worth county in 1856. He was born in Lycoming Co., Penn., Jan. 28, 1815. He is the son of James and Rachel Egbert who were the parents of eleven children. The father was a millwright. When Samuel was about eight years of age, he came with his parents, in 1823, to Portage Co., Ohio, where his father died. Soon after he removed with his mother to Holmes Co., Ohio, where she entered eighty acres of land on which a brother of Samuel now lives. When Samuel was about sixteen years of age he learned the trade of carpenter and joiner, which he followed for twenty-five years. In 1836 he married Eliza Jones, of Welsh descent, by whom he had six children, two of whom are living—Elizabeth and Rachel P. In 1839 Mr. Egbert emigrated to Coles Co., Ill., and the next year to Shelby county, same state, remaining there until 1856, at which time he came to Worth Co., Iowa. On coming here he located the land on which Northwood now stands; laying off a portion of his land in town lots. Mr. Egbert has been a resident of Northwood for more than a quarter of a century, and has been an eye witness of the country's marvelous prosperity and development. He was appointed a commissioner to locate the first roads of the county. He received the first order from Judge Moore, of Mitchell county, to organize Worth county, and was the donor of twelve and a half acres of depot grounds, for the encouragement of the Iowa Central Railroad.

Source: History of Mitchell and Worth Counties, Iowa, 1883, page 839.

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