Otis Greeley

GREELEY

Posted By: Gordon Felland (email)
Date: 10/5/2005 at 22:26:04

Otis Greeley is a native of Windsor Co., Vt., born May 13, 1830. He left there a t the age of four years, and with his parents located at Loraine Co., Ohio, lived there about two years. From there removed to Winnebago Co., Ill., lived there one year, from there went to Boone, Ill., lived there until he was seventeen years old, then removed to Green Co., Wis., and lived there four years. At the age of twenty-one years he came to Iowa. He settled in Floyd county, near Charles City, where he lived until 1856. He then moved to Bristol township, Worth county, and settled on section 5, where he has eighty acres of good land, eighty acres on section 4, and ten acres of timber land; in all 170 acres. He has held the office of constable and township trustee. He is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic. He was married to Narcissa Townsand. She was born in New York. They have four children – Robert H., B. M., Nelson R. and Ella M. He enlisted in company B, 22nd Iowa Volunteer Infantry, served three years and was mustered out at Clinton, Iowa, in 1865. He was in the battles of Tripoli, Spanish Fort, Forth Blakely and Nashville, Tenn.

Source: History of Mitchell and Worth Counties, Iowa, 1883, page 714.

Picture below is of Otis Greeley and his brother-in-law, Benjamin Franklin Judd. Picture was contributed by William Judd.

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