Justus Spickerman

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Date: 11/8/2022 at 20:01:46

Justus Spickerman

Justus Spickerman is the son of Andrew and Catharine (Budd) Spickerman, natives of New York. They both died there in 1883, the father aged eighty -six, the mother eighty-five years. Justus was the youngest of ten children, born in Columbia county, Oct. 20, 1840. He received an academic education at the collegiate institute at Marion, Wayne Co., N. Y. He contracted on earth work for railroad companies thirteen years. He has since been engaged in farming. He came to Danville township, Worth county, in the spring of 1878, where he still resides. He was married Sept. 22, 1875, to Carrie Hoaga, born in New York, May 10, 1855. They have two children - Manda and Myron. Source: History of Mitchell and Worth Counties, Iowa, 1884, p.742