David W. Christian

CHRISTIAN

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Date: 11/6/2022 at 22:53:07

David W. Christian

David W. Christian entered land, in 1855, on section 8, of what is now Union township, Worth Co., Iowa, and settled upon the same in 1872. He was born in Manchester, England, in 1829. When he was quite young his parents moved to the Isle of Man, where his father; owned a farm. When he was twenty years of age he came to America, and for two years he worked in the lead mines at Blue Mounds, Wis. He then went to Winnebago Co., Ill., where he followed farming until 1866, at which date he settled in Floyd county and farmed on rented land. In 1872 he came to Union township and settled on his own land. He was married in 1866 to Sarah A. Stevenson, a native of New York State. They have six children-David W., Alford M., Olin Athel, Clarence Bird, Lilly A. and James W. Source: History of Mitchell and Worth Counties, Iowa, 1884, p.879