Lawrence McLeod

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Date: 11/7/2022 at 23:25:29

Lawrence McLeod

Lawrence McLeod first came to Iowa in 1866, and located in Falls township, Cerro Gordo county, purchasing land on section 9. He remained in that township until 1882, when he made his present settlement on section 35, Union township. He is a native of New Brunswick, where he was born April 2, 1818. When he was two years of age his parents moved to Canada, and settled in that part of the London district, province of Ontario, which is now known as Oxford county, where he was an early settler. The subject of our sketch was there married, in 1843, to Mary Smith, who was also a native of New Brunswick. He bought a farm in Oxford county, and lived there until 1866, when he came to Iowa, as before stated. They have ten children. Their son James C. was born in Oxford Co., province of Ontario, Aug. 28,1847, where he lived with his parents until 1866, when he., came to Iowa with them, and made his home in Cerro Gordo county until 1872. The fall previous he bought the south half of section 35, in Union township, and settled there in the spring of 1872. There was a log house on this place, in which he lived until 1881, when he built the neat frame house in which he now resides. He now has 160 acres of well improved land. He was joined in marriage April 17, 1872, to Helen C. Carpenter, a native of Wisconsin. Three children have blessed this union-Mertie Irene, Minnie Vida and Victor Greenleaf. Source: History of Mitchell and Worth Counties, Iowa, 1884, p.883